German researchers have sensors for robots are developed as artificial skin service can do. The artificial skin consists of a number of different types of sensors that a robot could ‘feel’it.
The staff of the Institute for Cognitive Systems at the TU of Munich have their artificial skin Hex-O-Skin called, to the hexagonal pcb on which the sensors are mounted. The artificial skin made by researchers Philipp Mittendorfer and Gordon Cheng was developed, which contains sensors for temperature, motion and proximity of the objects. This would robot can be a ‘skin’ that are touch sensitive.
The units of the Hex-O-Skin are five inches in diameter and include four infrared sensors for the sense of touch: objects from one inch away can the sensors be detected. The individual pcbs of the ‘skin’ are connected together and encased in an elastomer that mechanical huideigenschappen simulates. Each pcb has its own controller that the analog sensor signals to a digital signal converts. The sensors communicate as a grid with a central computer.
For now, the researchers have a robot of around fifteen sensors is provided. The Germans want a prototype building that is fully enclosed by the artificial skin, and as a humanoid robot develop.