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ArticleAuthors
Ribeiro, Pedro
Khan, Mohammed Asadullah

Alfadhel, Ahmed

Kosel, Jürgen

Franco, Fernando
Cardoso, Susana
Bernardino, Alexandre

Schmitz, Alexander

Santos-Victor, Jose

Jamone, Lorenzo

KAUST Department
Computer, Electrical and Mathematical Sciences and Engineering (CEMSE) DivisionElectrical Engineering Program
Date
2017-01-20Online Publication Date
2017-01-20Print Publication Date
2017-04Permanent link to this record
http://hdl.handle.net/10754/623799
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The detection of small forces is of great interest in any robotic application that involves interaction with the environment (e.g., objects manipulation, physical human-robot interaction, minimally invasive surgery), since it allows the robot to detect the contacts early on and to act accordingly. In this letter, we present a sensor design inspired by the ciliary structure frequently found in nature, consisting of an array of permanently magnetized cylinders (cilia) patterned over a giant magnetoresistance sensor (GMR). When these cylinders are deformed in shape due to applied forces, the stray magnetic field variation will change the GMR sensor resistivity, thus enabling the electrical measurement of the applied force. In this letter, we present two 3 mm × 3 mm prototypes composed of an array of five cilia with 1 mm of height and 120 and 200 μm of diameter for each prototype. A minimum force of 333 μN was measured. A simulation model for determining the magnetized cylinders average stray magnetic field is also presented.Citation
Ribeiro P, Khan MA, Alfadhel A, Kosel J, Franco F, et al. (2017) Bioinspired Ciliary Force Sensor for Robotic Platforms. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters 2: 971–976. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/lra.2017.2656249.Sponsors
This letter was recommended for publication by Associate Editor C. Natale and Editor Prof. J.Wen upon evaluation of the reviewers’ comments. This work was supported in part by EXCL/CTM-NAN/0441/2012, in part by PTDC/CTMNAN/3146/2014, and in part by UID/EEA/50009/2013 projects. The work of F. Franco was supported by FCT under Grant SFRH/BD/111538/2015 and the work of L. Jamone was supported by LIMOMAN–PIEFGA-2013-628315.Additional Links
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7827912/ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1109/lra.2017.2656249