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Low-Cost Electromechanical Actuator Arrays for Tactile Display Applications
Michael Karpelson, Rut Peña, Robert J. Wood
Abstract
Dynamic tactile displays represent a class of haptic devices of particular interest to the blind and visually impaired. Despite many years of research and development efforts, the low-cost, low-power, compact tactile display remains elusive. This paper describes a low-cost electromechanical actuator array based on low-force, low-displacement bistable actuators that can be realized using inexpensive, commercially available components and high-volume manufacturing processes. The array is applicable to several types of tactile displays; as an initial proof of concept, we demonstrate a 6-dot Braille cell with a 3mm pitch that requires less than 50mJ per actuator per transition.
BibTeX
@inproceedings{icra2018_lowcostelectrome,
title = {Low-Cost Electromechanical Actuator Arrays for Tactile Display Applications},
author = {Michael Karpelson and Rut Peña and Robert J. Wood},
booktitle = {ICRA 2018},
year = {2018}
}