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Closed-Loop Haptic Feedback Control Using a Self-Sensing Soft Pneumatic Actuator Skin

Sonar, Harshal Arun  
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Gerratt, Aaron Powers  
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Lacour, Stéphanie  
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2020
Soft Robotics

In this article, we achieve a closed-loop control over haptic feedback, first time for an entirely soft platform. We prototyped a novel self-sensing soft pneumatic actuator (SPA) with soft strain sensors, called SPA-skin, which withstands large multiaxial strains and is capable of high-frequency sensing and actuation. To close-loop control the haptic feedback, the platform requires a cohesively integrated system. Our system consists of a stretchable low profile (<500 μm) SPA and an ultra-compliant thin-metal film strain sensor that create a novel bidirectional platform for tactile sensing via force-tunable vibratory feedback. With this prototype, we demonstrated control of the actuator shape in real time up to 100 Hz at output forces up to 1 N, maintained under variable mechanical loadings. We further characterized the SPA-skin platform for its static and dynamic behavior over a range of actuation amplitudes and frequencies as well as developed an analytical model of this system to predict the actuator inflation state only using the embedded sensor's resistance. Our SPA-skin is a multifunctional multilayer system that can readily be implemented as a high-speed wearable bidirectional interface for contact sensing and vibrotactile feedback.

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research article
DOI
10.1089/soro.2019.0013
Author(s)
Sonar, Harshal Arun  
Gerratt, Aaron Powers  
Lacour, Stéphanie  
Paik, Jamie  
Date Issued

2020

Published in
Soft Robotics
Volume

7

Issue

1

Start page

22

End page

29

Subjects

soft sensors

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soft pneumatic actuators

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strain sensors

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haptic device

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wearable device

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closed loop control

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REVIEWED

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