Noh, Yohan and Sareh, Sina and Back, J and Wurdemann, Helge A and Ranzani, Tommaso and Secco, Emanuele Lindo and Faragasso, Angela and Liu, Hongbin and Althoefer, Kaspar (2014) A Three-Axial Body Force Sensor for Flexible Manipulators. In: IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2014).
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Abstract
This paper introduces an optical based three axis
force sensor which can be integrated with the robot arm of the
EU project STIFF-FLOP (STIFFness controllable Flexible and
Learnable Manipulator for Surgical Operations) in order to
measure applied external forces. The structure of the
STIFF-FLOP arm is free of metal components and electric
circuits and, hence, is inherently safe near patients during
surgical operations. In addition, this feature makes the
performance of this sensing system immune against strong
magnetic fields inside magnetic resonance (MR) imaging
scanners. The hollow structure of the sensor allows the
implementation of distributed actuation and sensing along the
body of the manipulator. In this paper, we describe the design
and calibration procedure of the proposed three axis
optics-based force sensor. The experimental results confirm the
effectiveness of our optical sensing approach and its
applicability to determine the force and momentum components
during the physical interaction of the robot arm with its
environment.
| Item Type: | Conference or Workshop Item (Paper) |
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| Faculty / Department: | Faculty of Human and Digital Sciences > Mathematics and Computer Science |
| Depositing User: | Emanuele Secco |
| Date Deposited: | 19 May 2016 10:22 |
| Last Modified: | 19 May 2016 10:22 |
| URI: | https://hira.hope.ac.uk/id/eprint/1181 |
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