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Objective
• Robots in the past? Current? Future?• Why we need sensors?• What are sensors?• Various Types of sensors
– Strain Gauges
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Robots in the Past
• Used User Input• No input feedback
between the processor and an output function.
• Not very dynamic
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RT-1 HERO JR• Meet the first affordable,
personal robot with a dynamic personality
• All routines are stored in 32k ROM.
• See, hear, speak, tell time and move
• light sensor, ultrasonic sonar, sound detector, speech synthesizer and an internal clock controlled using a Motorola 6808 microprocessor.
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Modern Robots/Machines
• Assigned critical tasks• Weak Autonomy• Introduction to bio-
sensors
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The Future• Involves a lot of sensor
integration• New technology/discoveries
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Types of sensors
• Accelerometers• Position Sensing• Range Sensing• Vision Sensing• Force Sensing
– Strain Gauges• Load Sensors• Quantum Tunneling• Pressure Sensors
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Strain Gauges
• Frequently used in Mechanical Research– Measure stress
generated by machinery
• Strain Gauges are smaller than a postage stamp.
• Very thin conductors (1/1000 inch diameter)
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Strain Gauges
• Device that changes resistance when it is stressed.
• With contact the wires stretch or compress changing their resistance proportional to the applied load.
• One or more strain gages are used in the making of a load cell.
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Strain Gauges• For practical instrumentation
– Monitor resistance change with high accuracy
– Bridge measurement circuit (provides precision)
– Circuit indicates measured strain by degree of imbalance
– The imbalance is accurately read by a precision voltmeter at the bridge center.
– Analog Voltage converted and used by various embedded systems.
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Strain Gauge (in action)
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Quantum Tunneling Composite (QTC)
• New technology (Quantum Theory)
• A flexible polymer– Exhibits extraordinary electrical
properties– Perfect insulator (at
equilibrium)– Perfect conductor (when
compressed) • Can pass very high currents
(>= 10 amps)– Polymers loaded with carbon
are, at best, only partially conductive.
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Applications of QTC
– Very promising to revolutionize product design.
– Currently• Smart garments that can be wired directly to
electronic products such as an iPod. • Being retro-fitted, for conventional switches to
eliminate arcing and electrical noise. • Advanced membrane panel switches, speed
controllers and sensors. – Can even sense small concentrations of
organic molecules in liquid or gas form.
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Variations of QTC
Others: • QTC Force Sensors• QTC Textile Sensors
QTC Pill QTC Cable
QTC Switch
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Questions ?
Thank you!
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Resources• Circuit Cellar Ink article, April issue, pp 48-51 • http://www.allaboutcircuits.com/vol_1/chpt_9/7.html• http://www.tep.org.uk/millennium_smart_qtc.html• http://www.peratech.co.uk/