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A Body-Scale Robotic Skin Using Distributed Multimodal Sensing Modules: Design, Evaluation, and Application

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Robotic systems start to coexist around humans but cannot physically interact as humans do due to the absence of tactile sensitivity across their bodies. Various studies have developed a scalable tactile sensor to grant a body-scale robotic skin, yet many faced drawbacks arising from the rapidly increasing number of sensing elements or a limited sensibility to a wide range of touches. This article proposes a body-scale robotic skin composed of multimodal sensing modules and a multilayered fabric, simultaneously utilizing superresolution and tomographic transducing mechanisms. These mechanisms employ fewer sensing elements across a large area and complement each other in perceiving a wide range of stimuli humans can sense. Their measurements are processed to encode spatiotemporal properties of touch, which are decoded by a trained convolutional neural network to classify the touch modality, while their computational costs are minimized for on-device computation. The robotic skin was demonstrated on a commercial robotic arm and interpreted human touches for tactile communication, suggesting its capability as a body-scale robotic skin for further physical interaction.

Robot sensing systemsRobotsSkinSensorsTransducersMicrophonesConductivityElectrodesPollution measurementVoltage measurement

Min Jin Yang、Hyunjo Chung、Yoonjin Kim、Kyungseo Park、Jung Kim

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Department of Mechanical Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon, South Korea

Department of Robotics and Mechatronics Engineering, Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology (DGIST), Daegu, South Korea

2025

IEEE transactions on robotics: A publication of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society
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