Development of Improved MCF Rubber on MCF Touch Sensor

Abstract

The MCF conductive rubber, combining the MCF in a silicon-oil rubber, has been developed with Shimada laboratory a few years ago. Recently, by means of the MCF electric conductive rubber, we are developing a haptic sensor for the applications to a robotic finger, artificial skin, and so on. For the purpose of the applications, it is important to understand characteristics of the MCF electric conductive rubber. In this paper, we proposed a new type MCF conductive rubber, the new type MCF rubber has high sensitivity and electivity. We made some experiments to compare older MCF rubber and improved MCF rubber's sensitivity and electivity. The results show new type MCF rubber catch a touch easily much than older MCF rubber, it can be effectively applied to robotic touch sensor.