BIO-08 DEVELOPMENT OF A HAPTIC SENSOR FOR MONITORING HUMAN SKIN CONDITIONS : MEASUREMENT OF SOFTNESS, SMOOTHNESS, AND TACKINESS(Bio-medical Equipments III,Technical Program of Oral Presentations)
This paper describes the development of a haptic sensor using a polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) film, which is a kind of piezoelectric materials. Output characteristic of PVDF film is similar to one of pacinian corpuscles in human skin. In experiment, smoothness and softness of skin model were measured using the sensor system. After that, the results were compared with physical properties of the objects.
