Soft Fingertip Sensor Heads: Shinichi Hirai Contact: Muhammad Hisyam B Rosle Date: 2012 - Mailing address: Dept. Robotics, Ritsumeikan Univ. Kusatsu, Shiga 525-8577, Japan Supported by: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (No.15H02230) 2015 - 2017 (Shinichi Hirai) Dynamics and Tribology of Soft Tissues in Tactile Perception Associated lab/group:

Project Description

We will fabricate a force sensor embedded with a soft fingertip. The sensor consists of Hall-effect devices and permenent magnets.

Personnel

	Name	Title	Degree
	Damith Suresh Chathuranga	University of Moratuwa	Ph. D in Engineering
	Muhammad Hisyam Bin Rosle	Universiti Malaysia Perlis	Ph. D in Engineering
	Or Keung	Graduated	Ph.D
	Nakano Hideki	Graduated	Master of Eng.
	Atsuya Nomura	Graduated	Master of Eng.
	Kousuke Yamada	Graduated
	Taku Takashima	Graduated

Publications

• Muhammad Hisyam Rosle, Zhongkui Wang, Md Nahin Islam Shiblee, Kumkum Ahmed, Hidemitsu Furukawa, and Shinichi Hirai, Soft Resistive Tactile Sensor based on CNT-PDMS-Gel to Estimate Contact Force, IEEE Sensors Letters, Vol.6, No.3, pp.1-4, 10.1109/LSENS.2022.3151659, Mar., 2022
• Muhammad Hisyam Rosle, Ryo Kojima, Keung Or, Zhongkui Wang, and Shinichi Hirai, Soft Tactile Fingertip to Estimate Orientation and the Contact State of Thin Rectangular Objects, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, Vol.5, Issue 1, pp.159-166, 10.1109/LRA.2019.2950118, Jan., 2020
• Muhammad Hisyam Rosle, Zhongkui Wang, and Shinichi Hirai, Geometry Optimisation of a Hall-Effect-Based Soft Fingertip for Estimating Orientation of Thin Rectangular Objects, Sensors, Vol.19, No.18, 10.3390/s19184056, Sept., 2019
• Damith Suresh Chathuranga, Zhongkui Wang, Yohan Noh, Thrishantha Nanayakkara, and Shinichi Hirai, Magnetic and Mechanical Modelling of a Soft Three-Axis Force Sensor, IEEE Sensors Journal, Vol.16, Issue 13, pp.5298-5307, 10.1109/JSEN.2016.2550605, Apr., 2016

• Muhammad Hisyam Rosle, Koji Shiratsuchi, and Shinichi Hirai, Failure State Estimation Using Soft Tactile Fingertip in Insertion Tasks, 2020 IEEE/ASME Int. Conf. on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics (AIM 2020), pp.910-915, 10.1109/AIM43001.2020.9158971, online, July 6-10, 2020
• Muhammad Hisyam bin Rosle, Ryo Kojima, Zhongkui Wang and Shinichi Hirai, Soft Fingertip with Tactile Sensation for Detecting Grasping Orientation of Thin Object, 2018 IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Biomimetics (IEEE ROBIO 2018), Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Dec. 12-15, 2018
• Damith Suresh Chathuranga, Zhongkui Wang, Yohan Noh, Thrishantha Nanayakkara, and Shinichi Hirai, A Soft Three Axis Force Sensor Useful for Robot Grippers, 2016 IEEE/RSJ Int. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2016), pp.5556-5563, 10.1109/IROS.2016.7759817, Daejeon Convention Center, Daejeon, Korea, Oct. 9-14, 2016
• Damith Suresh Chathuranga, Zhongkui Wang, and Shinichi Hirai, An Anthropomorphic Tactile Sensor System with its Applications in Dexterous Manipulations, 5th Annual IEEE Int. Conf. on CYBER Technology in Automation, Control, and Intelligent Systems, pp.1085-1090, 10.1109/CYBER.2015.7288096, Shenyang Royal Wanxin Hotel, Shenyang, China, June 8-12, 2015
• Damith Suresh Chathuranga Katudampe Vithanage, Wang Zhongkui, Yohan Noh, Thrishantha Nanayakkara, and Shinichi Hirai, Disposable Soft 3 Axis Force Sensor for Biomedical Applications, The 37th Annual Int. Conf. of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC 2015), 10.1109/EMBC.2015.7319642, MiCo - Milano Congressi, Milano, Italy, Aug. 25-29, 2015
• Damith Suresh Chathuranga Katudampe Vithanage, Zhongkui Wang, Yohan Noh, Thrishantha Nanayakkara, and Shinichi Hirai, Robust Real Time Material Classification Algorithm Using Soft Three Axis Tactile Sensor: Evaluation of the Algorithm, 2015 IEEE/RSJ Int. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2015), 10.1109/IROS.2015.7353655, Congress Center Hamburg (CCH), Hamburg, Germany, Sept. 28 - Oct. 2, 2015

• Damith Suresh Chathuranga and Shinichi Hirai, Soft 3D Tactile Sensor for Artificial Fingertips - Design, Fabrication and Testing of the Sensor -, Robotics and Mechatronics Conference 2015, Miyakomesse, Kyoto, Japan, May 17-19, 2015
• Damith Suresh Chathuranga Katudampe Vithanage and Shinichi Hirai, A Bio-Mimetic Fingertip that can Detect Force and Vibration Modalities - Investigation of Bio-mimetic Fingertip's Ability to Discriminate Textures, Robotics and Mechatronics Conference 2013, Tsukuba International Congress Center, May 22-25, 2013

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