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Optical Lace for Synthetic Afferent Neural Networks.

ABSTRACT: While vision dominates sensing in robots, animals with limited vision deftly navigate their environment using other forms of perception such as touch. Efforts have been made to apply artificial skins with tactile sensing to robots for similarly sophisticated mobile and manipulative skills. The ability to functionally mimic the afferent sensory neural network, required for distributed sensing and communication networks throughout the body is still missing. This limitation is partially due to the lack of cointegration of the mechanosensors in the body of the robot. In this paper, lacings of stretchable optical fibers distributed throughout 3D printed elastomer frameworks create a cointegrated body, sensing, and communication network. This soft, functional structure can localize deformation with sub-millimeter positional accuracy (Err = 0.71 mm), and sub-Newton force resolution (~0.3 N).

SUBMITTER: Xu PA

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6853625 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Optical Lace for Synthetic Afferent Neural Networks.

Xu Artemis A Mishra A K AK Bai H H Aubin C A CA Zullo L L Shepherd R F RF

Science robotics 20190911 34

While vision dominates sensing in robots, animals with limited vision deftly navigate their environment using other forms of perception such as touch. Efforts have been made to apply artificial skins with tactile sensing to robots for similarly sophisticated mobile and manipulative skills. The ability to functionally mimic the afferent sensory neural network, required for distributed sensing and communication networks throughout the body is still missing. This limitation is partially due to the ...[more]

PMID: 31723716

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