Overview
- Reviews the current knowledge in human tactile control of grip force from skin deformation to motor commands
- Provides a deep understanding of the role of the skin biomechanics in grip force regulation for manipulation
- Proposes a simple model of skin tissues to compute the stresses and strains that develop when interacting with objects
Part of the book series: Springer Series on Touch and Haptic Systems (SSTHS)
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About this book
Humans rely on their sense of touch to perceive subtle movements and micro slippages to manipulate an impressive range of objects. This incredible dexterity relies on fast and unconscious adjustments of the grip force that holds an object strong enough to avoid a catastrophic fall yet gentle enough not to damage it.
The Biomechanics of the Tactile Perception of Friction covers how the complex mechanical interaction is perceived by the nervous system to quickly infer the state of the contact for a swift and precise regulation of the grip. The first part focuses on how humans assess friction at the contact initialization and the second part highlights an efficient coding strategy that the nervous system might use to continuously adjust the grip force to keep a constant safety margin before slippage.
Taken together, these results reveal how the perception of frictional information is encoded in the deformation of our skin. The findings are useful for designing bio-inspired tactile sensors for robotics or prosthetics and for improving haptic human-machine interactions.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Biomechanics of the Tactile Perception of Friction
Authors: Laurence Willemet
Series Title: Springer Series on Touch and Haptic Systems
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-16053-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-16052-3Published: 01 November 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-16055-4Published: 02 November 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-16053-0Published: 31 October 2022
Series ISSN: 2192-2977
Series E-ISSN: 2192-2985
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 131
Number of Illustrations: 11 b/w illustrations, 47 illustrations in colour
Topics: User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction, Robotics, Physiology