Research on the Calibration Apparatus and Method of 3-D Flexible Tactile Sensor Arrays

Abstract

The three-dimensional (3-D) flexible tactile arrays sensor is a kind of sensor with high-precision, high-resolution and high-speed response which can measure tactile information as human skin perception for robotic to access environmental information. It’s critical to study the calibration apparatus and its method of the 3-D flexible tactile sensor arrays. This paper proposes the principal of the 3-D flexible tactile sensor arrays and designs a novel calibration apparatus and the calibration method for it. It can be used not only for calibration experiment but also for the design experiment of the sensor arrays with different array size, different precision and different range. The calibration experiment result indicates that the calibration apparatus meets the precision requirement and promotes the use of such sensors.