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Team 68

Team Members

Faculty Advisor

Bailey Baclaski

Professor Mihai Duduta

Sponsor

Acc Masters

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Soft Robotic Pressure Sensing Gripper

The purpose of this project is to integrate soft robotic pressure sensors onto a bionic hand to improve tactile function of robot grippers. The sensors used are capacitive sensors, which store energy as the sensors are compressed. A larger applied force increases the capacitance output. The four main objectives of the project are to create a calibration curve for the pressure sensors, write code to control the bionic hand to grab objects of varying sizes and shapes, design and 3D print and interface to apply the sensors to, and to write a program to gather sensor data automatically via a micro controller. This pressure sensor integration will mimic human touch and object recognition within robots, which has applications in prosthetics, radioactive environments, aerospace, and manufacturing.