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ArticleSensors (Basel, Switzerland)2021

Hierarchical Tactile Sensation Integration from Prosthetic Fingertips Enables Multi-Texture Surface Recognition.

Moaed A Abd, Rudy Paul, Aparna Aravelli, Ou Bai, Leonel Lagos, Maohua Lin, Erik D Engeberg

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Article in Sensors (Basel, Switzerland), 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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11 citing papers in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Moaed A AbdOcean and Mechanical Engineering Department, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL 33431, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-8495-4244
Rudy PaulOcean and Mechanical Engineering Department, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL 33431, USA.
Aparna AravelliApplied Research Center, Florida International University, Miami, FL 33174, USA.
Ou BaiElectrical and Computer Engineering, Florida International University, Miami, FL 33174, USA.
Leonel LagosApplied Research Center, Florida International University, Miami, FL 33174, USA.
Maohua LinOcean and Mechanical Engineering Department, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL 33431, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-9460-2111
Erik D EngebergOcean and Mechanical Engineering Department, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL 33431, USA.

Funding

SCH: INT: Virtual Neuroprosthesis: Restoring Autonomy to People Suffering From NeurotraumaR01EB025819 · NIBIB · FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY · PI DU, E, ENGEBERG, ERIK · 2017 to 2020
$1.8M
NIBIB NIH HHS R01 EB025819NIH HHS R01EB025819
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Multifunctional flexible tactile sensors could be useful to improve the control of prosthetic hands. To that end, highly stretchable liquid metal tactile sensors (LMS) were designed, manufactured via photolithography, and incorporated into the fingertips of a prosthetic hand. Three novel contributions were made with the LMS. First, individual fingertips were used to distinguish between different speeds of sliding contact with different surfaces. Second, differences in surface textures were reliably detected during sliding contact. Third, the capacity for hierarchical tactile sensor integration was demonstrated by using four LMS signals simultaneously to distinguish between ten complex multi-textured surfaces. Four different machine learning algorithms were compared for their successful classification capabilities: K-nearest neighbor (KNN), support vector machine (SVM), random forest (RF), and neural network (NN). The time-frequency features of the LMSs were extracted to train and test the machine learning algorithms. The NN generally performed the best at the speed and texture detection with a single finger and had a 99.2 ± 0.8% accuracy to distinguish between ten different multi-textured surfaces using four LMSs from four fingers simultaneously. The capability for hierarchical multi-finger tactile sensation integration could be useful to provide a higher level of intelligence for artificial hands.

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FingersTouchAlgorithmsNeural Networks, ComputerSupport Vector Machineliquid metalprosthetic handrobotic handsurface feature recognitiontactile sensor

Identifiers

PMID34202796
PMCPMC8271906

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