Implementing Tactile and Proximity Sensing for Crack Detection

Francesca Palermo,Jelizaveta Konstantinova,Kaspar Althoefer,Stefan Poslad,Ildar Farkhatdinov,Francesca Palermo,Jelizaveta Konstantinova,Kaspar Althoefer,Stefan Poslad,Ildar Farkhatdinov

Remote characterisation of the environment during physical robot-environment interaction is an important task commonly accomplished in telerobotics. This paper demonstrates how tactile and proximity sensing can be efficiently used to perform automatic crack detection. A custom-designed integrated tactile and proximity sensor is implemented. It measures the deformation of its body when interacting ...