Empowering Robots for Multimodal Tactile Gripping using Capacitive Micromachined Ultrasonic Transducers
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Koch, Sandro G.; Volz, Uwe; Lange, Nicolas; Koble, Soren; Schubert, Frank; Richter, Christian; Poongodan, Prajith Kumar; Vanselow, Frank; Urbahn, Christoph
- Source
- 2021 Smart Systems Integration (SSI) Smart Systems Integration (SSI), 2021. :1-5 Apr, 2021
- Subject
- Bioengineering
Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Photonics and Electrooptics
Power, Energy and Industry Applications
Robotics and Control Systems
Signal Processing and Analysis
Transportation
Ultrasonic transducers
System integration
Grasping
Robot sensing systems
Sensor systems
System-on-chip
Sensors
tactile
proximity
ultrasound
CMUT
robotics
- Language
A new technology platform is presented that utilized capacitive micromachined ultrasonic transducers (CMUT) for the on-chip integration of proximity and tactile sensing. This platform integrated in robotic grippers enables tactile and reactive grasping. A single channel proximity system is demonstrated to distinguish objects and reveal high spatial resolution to distances of 10 mm.