Dynamic Investigation Test-rig on hAptics (DITA)

2013 Joint IMEKO (International Measurement Confederation) TC1-TC7-TC13 Symposium: Measurement Across Physical and Behavioural Sciences

Cannella, F.^1 ; Scalise, L.^2 ; Olivieri, E.^1 ; Memeo, M.^2 ; Caldwell, D.G.^1

Department of Advanced Robotics, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, via Morego 30, 16163 Genova, Italy^1

Dipartimento di Ingegneria Industriale e Scienze Matematiche, Università Politecnica Delle Marche, Via Brecce Bianche 60131, Ancona, Italy^2

关键词: Design and Development;    Experimental test;    Health state;    Just-noticeable difference;    Sense of touch;    Tactile perception;    Tactile sensitivities;    Test apparatus;   

Others  :  https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1742-6596/459/1/012032/pdf
DOI  :  10.1088/1742-6596/459/1/012032

来源: IOP

【 摘 要 】

Research on tactile sensitivity has been conducted since the last century and many devices have been proposed to study in detail this sense through experimental tests. The sense of touch is essential in every-day life of human beings, but it can also play a fundamental role for the assessment of some neurological disabilities and pathologies. In fact, the level of tactile perception can provide information on the health state of the nervous system. In this paper, authors propose the design and development of a novel test apparatus, named DITA (Dynamic Investigation Test-rig on hAptics), aiming to provide the measurement of the tactile sensitivity trough the determination of the Just Noticeable Difference (JND) curve of a subject. The paper reports the solution adopted for the system design and the results obtained on the set of experiments carried out on volunteers.