Skin vibration and contact force in active perception for roughness ratings

Makiko Natsume; Yoshihiro Tanaka; Wouter M. Bergmann Tiest; Astrid M.L. Kappers

doi:10.1109/ROMAN.2017.8172499

Skin vibration and contact force in active perception for roughness ratings

Makiko Natsume, Yoshihiro Tanaka, Wouter M. Bergmann Tiest, Astrid M.L. Kappers

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When we touch an object, we can obtain tactile information through our skin. Thus it is important to reveal the relationship between the subjective sensation and objective quantities like the skin vibration elicited on our skin. In this paper, we focus on roughness perception, one of the main tactile sensations of materials. We measured skin vibration and contact force in natural active roughness perception for a large set of different materials, of which the physical roughness could be expressed in various industrial roughness measures like Ra. The results showed that there was no relationship between contact force and subjective roughness, so apparently humans do not control contact forces intentionally in a roughness estimation task. Power functions were fitted to each relationship between the other objective parameters and estimated roughness. The goodness-of-fit value of skin vibration was significantly better than any of the other parameters. Thus, the main conclusion is that these results suggest that skin vibration plays a determining role in roughness perception.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	2017 26th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN)
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages	1479-1484
Number of pages	6
ISBN (Electronic)	9781538635186
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/ROMAN.2017.8172499
Publication status	Published - 14 Dec 2017
Event	26th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, RO-MAN 2017 - Lisbon, Portugal Duration: 28 Aug 2017 → 1 Sept 2017

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Conference	26th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, RO-MAN 2017
Country/Territory	Portugal
City	Lisbon
Period	28/08/17 → 1/09/17

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This work was supported by NITech Grant for Global Initiative Project. 1Nagoya Institute of Technology, Gokiso-cho, Showa-ku, Nagoya, Japan. [email protected], [email protected] 2JST, PRESTO, Kawaguchi, Japan. 3Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences, Wijnhaven 99, Rotterdam, The Netherlands. [email protected] 4Vrije Universiteit, Van der Boechorststraat 9, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. [email protected]

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active touch
contact force
physical parameter
skin vibration
Subjective roughness rating

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Natsume, M, Tanaka, Y, Bergmann Tiest, WM & Kappers, AML 2017, Skin vibration and contact force in active perception for roughness ratings. in 2017 26th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., pp. 1479-1484, 26th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, RO-MAN 2017, Lisbon, Portugal, 28/08/17. https://doi.org/10.1109/ROMAN.2017.8172499

Skin vibration and contact force in active perception for roughness ratings. / Natsume, Makiko; Tanaka, Yoshihiro; Bergmann Tiest, Wouter M. et al.
2017 26th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2017. p. 1479-1484.

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