A Review of Smart Materials in Tactile Actuators for Information Delivery
As the largest organ in the human body, the skin provides the important sensory channel for humans to receive external stimulations based on touch. By the information perceived through touch, people can feel and guess the properties of objects, like weight, temperature, textures, and motion, etc. In...
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| author | Xie, Xin Liu, Sanwei Yang, Chenye Yang, Zhengyu Liu, Tian Xu, Juncai Zhang, Cheng Zhai, Xianglin |
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| author_facet | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Xie, Xin Liu, Sanwei Yang, Chenye Yang, Zhengyu Liu, Tian Xu, Juncai Zhang, Cheng Zhai, Xianglin |
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| description | As the largest organ in the human body, the skin provides the important sensory channel for humans to receive external stimulations based on touch. By the information perceived through touch, people can feel and guess the properties of objects, like weight, temperature, textures, and motion, etc. In fact, those properties are nerve stimuli to our brain received by different kinds of receptors in the skin. Mechanical, electrical, and thermal stimuli can stimulate these receptors and cause different information to be conveyed through the nerves. Technologies for actuators to provide mechanical, electrical or thermal stimuli have been developed. These include static or vibrational actuation, electrostatic stimulation, focused ultrasound, and more. Smart materials, such as piezoelectric materials, carbon nanotubes, and shape memory alloys, play important roles in providing actuation for tactile sensation. This paper aims to review the background biological knowledge of human tactile sensing, to give an understanding of how we sense and interact with the world through the sense of touch, as well as the conventional and state-of-the-art technologies of tactile actuators for tactile feedback delivery. Keywords: smart materials; actuators; tactile display |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1133792022-10-01T10:42:15Z A Review of Smart Materials in Tactile Actuators for Information Delivery Xie, Xin Liu, Sanwei Yang, Chenye Yang, Zhengyu Liu, Tian Xu, Juncai Zhang, Cheng Zhai, Xianglin Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Microsystems Technology Laboratories Yang, Chenye As the largest organ in the human body, the skin provides the important sensory channel for humans to receive external stimulations based on touch. By the information perceived through touch, people can feel and guess the properties of objects, like weight, temperature, textures, and motion, etc. In fact, those properties are nerve stimuli to our brain received by different kinds of receptors in the skin. Mechanical, electrical, and thermal stimuli can stimulate these receptors and cause different information to be conveyed through the nerves. Technologies for actuators to provide mechanical, electrical or thermal stimuli have been developed. These include static or vibrational actuation, electrostatic stimulation, focused ultrasound, and more. Smart materials, such as piezoelectric materials, carbon nanotubes, and shape memory alloys, play important roles in providing actuation for tactile sensation. This paper aims to review the background biological knowledge of human tactile sensing, to give an understanding of how we sense and interact with the world through the sense of touch, as well as the conventional and state-of-the-art technologies of tactile actuators for tactile feedback delivery. Keywords: smart materials; actuators; tactile display 2018-01-31T14:36:21Z 2018-01-31T14:36:21Z 2017-12 2017-08 2018-01-24T21:03:09Z Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle 2311-5629 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/113379 Xie, Xin et al. "A Review of Smart Materials in Tactile Actuators for Information Delivery." C: Journal of Carbon Research 3, 4 (December 2017): 38 © 2017 The Author(s) http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/c3040038 C: Journal of Carbon Research Creative Commons Attribution http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ application/pdf MDPI AG Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute |
| spellingShingle | Xie, Xin Liu, Sanwei Yang, Chenye Yang, Zhengyu Liu, Tian Xu, Juncai Zhang, Cheng Zhai, Xianglin A Review of Smart Materials in Tactile Actuators for Information Delivery |
| title | A Review of Smart Materials in Tactile Actuators for Information Delivery |
| title_full | A Review of Smart Materials in Tactile Actuators for Information Delivery |
| title_fullStr | A Review of Smart Materials in Tactile Actuators for Information Delivery |
| title_full_unstemmed | A Review of Smart Materials in Tactile Actuators for Information Delivery |
| title_short | A Review of Smart Materials in Tactile Actuators for Information Delivery |
| title_sort | review of smart materials in tactile actuators for information delivery |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/113379 |
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