TY - JOUR
T1 - Soft human-machine interfaces: design, sensing and stimulation
AU - Dong, Wentao
AU - Wang, Youhua
AU - Zhou, Ying
AU - Bai, Yunzhao
AU - Ju, Zhaojie
AU - Guo, Jiajie
AU - Gu, Guoying
AU - Bai, Kun
AU - Ouyang, Gaoxiang
AU - Chen, Shiming
AU - Zhang, Qin
AU - Huang, YongAn
N1 - 12 month embargo
PY - 2018/9/1
Y1 - 2018/9/1
N2 - Human-machine interfaces (HMIs) are widely studied to understand the human biomechanics and/or physiology and the interaction between humans and machines/robots. The conventional rigid or invasive HMIs that record/send information from/to human bodies have significant disadvantages in practice for long-term, portable, and comfortable usages. To better adapt to natural soft skins, soft HMIs have been designed to deform into arbitrary shapes, and their bendable, stretchable, compressible and twistable properties offer a huge potential in future personalized applications. This paper presents a survey on various soft HMIs in terms of design, sensing, stimulation as well as their applications. Specifically, tactile / motion / bio-potential sensors are categorized for recording various data from human bodies, while stimulators are discussed for information feedback and motion activation to human bodies. It is anticipated that soft HMIs will promote the interaction among humans, machines/robots and environment to achieve desired coexisting-cooperative-cognitive function in a robot system, named as Tri-Co Robot, for the human-centered applications, such as rehabilitation, medical monitoring and human-robot cooperation.
AB - Human-machine interfaces (HMIs) are widely studied to understand the human biomechanics and/or physiology and the interaction between humans and machines/robots. The conventional rigid or invasive HMIs that record/send information from/to human bodies have significant disadvantages in practice for long-term, portable, and comfortable usages. To better adapt to natural soft skins, soft HMIs have been designed to deform into arbitrary shapes, and their bendable, stretchable, compressible and twistable properties offer a huge potential in future personalized applications. This paper presents a survey on various soft HMIs in terms of design, sensing, stimulation as well as their applications. Specifically, tactile / motion / bio-potential sensors are categorized for recording various data from human bodies, while stimulators are discussed for information feedback and motion activation to human bodies. It is anticipated that soft HMIs will promote the interaction among humans, machines/robots and environment to achieve desired coexisting-cooperative-cognitive function in a robot system, named as Tri-Co Robot, for the human-centered applications, such as rehabilitation, medical monitoring and human-robot cooperation.
U2 - 10.1007/s41315-018-0060-z
DO - 10.1007/s41315-018-0060-z
M3 - Article
SN - 2366-5971
VL - 2
SP - 313
EP - 338
JO - International Journal of Intelligent Robotics and Applications
JF - International Journal of Intelligent Robotics and Applications
IS - 3
ER -