• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.30 no.4 s.247
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• pp.364-372
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• 2006

In this paper, we present a finger tip tactile sensor which can detect contact normal force as well as slip. The sensor is made up of two different materials, such as polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) known as piezoelectric polymer, and pressure variable resistor ink. In order to detect slip on the surface of the object, two PVDF strips are arranged along the normal direction in the robot finger tip and the thumb tip. The surface electrode of the PVDF strip is fabricated using silk-screening technique with silver paste. Also a thin flexible force sensor is fabricated in the form of a matrix using pressure variable resistor ink in order to sense the static force. The developed tactile sensor is physically flexible and it can be deformed three-dimensionally to any shape so that it can be placed on anywhere on the curved surface. In addition, a tactile sensing system is developed, which includes miniaturized charge amplifier to amplify the small signal from the sensor, and the fast signal processing unit. The sensor system is evaluated experimentally and its effectiveness is validated.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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• v.16 no.7
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• pp.40-50
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• 1999

Recently, a laser displacement sensor is widely used for the manufacturing automation. The sensor is generally composed of a diode laser and a light receiving device. The diode laser emits a laser beam and the receiving device detects the light reflected from the measured object. The object position is obtained based upon triangulation method. As a light receiving device, a PSD is usually utilized since its structure is very simple and rugged and has a high accuracy. Although the theoretical relationship for this sensor had been developed, the characteristics of the sensor have not been much experimentally studied. In this paper, several experimental results will presented. The measurement accuracy is affected by the surface conditions such as the reflectance characteristics, the angle of the object's surface and the laser intensity. In addition, it is found that the PSD and the signal processing circuit have nonlinearities and showed that those nonlinearities can be reduced by controlling the emitting laser intensity.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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• 2010.06a
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• pp.8-8
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• 2010

외부전하를 감지할 수 있는 EEPROM 구조를 기반으로 한 센서를 제안하였다. 부유게이트로부터 확장된 큰 면적의 접촉부위 (CCM)는 외부전하를 고정화하도록 설계되었으며, $0.13{\mu}m$ 단일-다결정 CMOS 공정에 적합한 적층의 금속-절연체-금속 (MIM) 제어케이트구조로 구성되었다. N-채널 EEPROM의 CCW 캐패시터 영역에 양의 전압이 인가되면 제어 게이트의 문턱전압이 음의 방향으로 변화하여 드레인 전류는 증가하는 특성을 보였다. 또한 이미 충전된 외부 캐패시터가 CCW의 부유게이트의 금속영역에 직접 연결되면, 외부 캐패시터로부터 유입된 양의 전하는 n-채널 EEPROM의 드레인 전류를 증가시키지만 반면에 음의 전하는 이를 감소시켰다. 외부 전압과 전하에 의해 PMOS의 특성은 NMOS에 비교하여 반대로 나타남이 확인되었다. EEPROM 인버터의 CCW 영역에 외부전하를 연결하면 인버터의 입-출력 특성이 기준 시료에 비해 외부전하의 극성에 따라 변화하였다. 그러므로, EEPROM 인버터는 외부전하를 감지하여 부유게이트에 고정된 전하의 밀도 크기에 따라 출력을 전압으로 표현할 수 있음을 확인하였다.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Manufacturing Process Engineers
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• v.19 no.4
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• pp.65-70
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• 2020

While the demand for robots in the manufacturing industry has dramatically increased, the industrial robots' functionality is mainly determined by the effector attached to the end of their arms. They need a flexible gripping system that can act as a human hand and easily grasp a variety of objects, which requires resilient sensors. This study clarifies the electrical output characteristics of elastic tactile sensors according to contact terminals because the output characteristics of the tactile sensors vary greatly, depending on the contact material and the method of contact with the conductive wire. Our research considers the Three Roll Mill and Paste Mixer as the dispersion medium, and a nickel- and gold-plated brass electrode as the contact terminal.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Manufacturing Process Engineers
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• v.19 no.2
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• pp.69-74
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• 2020

In this study, we proposed a method for surface profiling aspheric lens molds using a precision displacement sensor with a spatial scanning mechanism. The precision displacement sensor is based on the confocal principle using a broadband light source, providing a 10 nm resolution over a 0.3 mm measurable range. The precision of the sensor, depending on surface slope, was evaluated via Allan deviation analysis. We then developed an automatic surface profiling system by measuring the cross-sectional profile of a lens mold. The precision of the sensor at the flat surface was 10 nm at 10 ms averaging time, while 200 ms averaging time was needed for identical precision at the steepest slope at 25 deg. When we compared the measurement result of the lens mold to a commercial surface profiler, we found that the accuracy of the developed system was less than 90 nm (in terms of 3 sigmas of error) between the two results.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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• v.19 no.3
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• pp.33-38
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• 2002

To establish the national standard of capacitance, four main electrodes of the cross capacitor which were evaluated to linearity and roundness less the $\pm 1 \mu m$ respectively have to be adjusted symmetrically in an inner cylinder. Four LM shafts with diameter of 5 mm were installed between main electrodes of the cross capacitor, and the electrodes were adjusted, as the first step, by means of the measured capacitance. In the second step, the symmetrical adjustment up to $\pm 1.2\mu m$ was performed by using a ball sensor, ball-type movable sensor, non-contacting capacitive sensor and upper guard sensor which were developed in this project.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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• v.19 no.1
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• pp.212-218
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• 2002

This research is the development of a distributed tactile sensor using PVDF film far the detection of the contact state. The prototype of the tactile sensor with 8$\times$8 taxels was fabricated using PVDF film and flexible circuitry. In the fabrication procedure, the electrode and the common electrode patterns are attached to the both side of the 28${\mu}m$ thickness PVDF film. The sensor is covered with polyester film for insulation. The signals of a contact pressure to the tactile sensor are sensed and processed in the DSP system in which the signals are digitalized and filtered. And the signals are integrated for taking the force profile. The processed signals of the output of the sensor are visualized to take the shape and force distribution of the contact object in personal computer. The usefulness of the sensor system is verified through the sensing examples.

• Journal of the Korean Vacuum Society
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• v.14 no.3
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• pp.110-114
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• 2005

This study proposes an accurate method of monitoring precursor consumption in chemical vapor deposition (CVD) systems. Since precursor costs are significant, finding an efficient method to monitor precursor consumption is necessary One example is the use of non-contact and inexpensive ultrasonic sensors for determining the liquid level in a container. In this study, sensors based on ultrasonic techniques have been developed for monitoring the precursor consumption in a CVD system. Moreover, the prototype sensors developed in this study can be useful in the field of semiconductors.

• Journal of Sensor Science and Technology
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• v.26 no.4
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• pp.266-273
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• 2017

In this research a medical palpation guidance system for minimally invasive surgery (MIS) is proposed. Palpation is a useful tool for identifying a size and location of a lump during a surgery. However, conventional manual palpation is only available in open surgery, so there has been several researches about palpation assistant or guidance system for MIS. The previously developed systems are based on a pressure based or stiffness based approach. These previous approaches have some limitations in increasing complexity of the systems and lack of geometric information about the lump which is more important information for the lump removal than the stiffness information. We propose a palpation guidance system using a novel approach using contact pressure distribution. Since our approach gives the geometry information of the lump as well as the existence information, the operator can easily notice the currently identified lump region and the optimal position for the next palpation. The experiment results show that our approach can offer the geometry information of the lump correctly.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.17 no.2
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• pp.57-62
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• 2017

Recently, the use of electronic control units in vehicle has increased. The ECUs are connected to in vehicle networks to process a large amount of information. In this paper, for an actuator that is interconnected to CAN and FlexRay, a FlexRay-CAN gateway is presented and a data packing algorithm with a bisection method of a FlexRay slot is proposed. And, a network based actuator control system and packing map is implemented. With the proposed packing method, contact force sensor data are transferred within the maximum allowed delay to ensure the stability. The proposed method is useful for control of distributed system.