Soft human-machine interfaces: design, sensing and stimulation
Soft human-machine interfaces: design, sensing and stimulation
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软人机界面：设计、传感和刺激
DOI：
10.1007/s41315-018-0060-z
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发表时间：
2018-09-01
影响因子：
1.7
通讯作者：
Huang, YongAn
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作者：
Dong, Wentao;Wang, Youhua;Huang, YongAn
人机接口（HMI）被广泛研究，以了解人类的生物力学和/或生理学以及人类与机器/机器人之间的交互。记录来自人体的信息/向人体发送信息的常规刚性或侵入式HMI在实践中对于长期、便携和舒适的使用具有显著的缺点。为了更好地适应自然柔软的皮肤，柔软的人机界面被设计成可变形为任意形状，其可弯曲、可伸展、可压缩和可扭曲的特性在未来的个性化应用中提供了巨大的潜力。本文介绍了各种软人机界面的设计，传感，刺激以及它们的应用。具体地，触觉/运动/生物电位传感器被分类用于记录来自人体的各种数据，而刺激器被讨论用于对人体的信息反馈和运动激活。软人机界面将促进人、机器/机器人和环境之间的交互，以实现以人为中心的应用，如康复、医疗监护和人机协作等，在机器人系统中实现所需的共存协作认知功能。
Human-machine interfaces (HMIs) are widely studied to understand the human biomechanics and/or physiology and the interaction between humans and machines/robots. The conventional rigid or invasive HMIs that record/send information from/to human bodies have significant disadvantages in practice for long-term, portable, and comfortable usages. To better adapt to natural soft skins, soft HMIs have been designed to deform into arbitrary shapes, and their bendable, stretchable, compressible and twistable properties offer a huge potential in future personalized applications. This paper presents a survey on various soft HMIs in terms of design, sensing, stimulation as well as their applications. Specifically, tactile/motion/biopotential sensors are categorized for recording various data from human bodies, while stimulators are discussed for information feedback and motion activation to human bodies. It is anticipated that soft HMIs will promote the interaction among humans, machines/robots and environment to achieve desired coexisting-cooperative-cognitive function in a robot system, named as Tri-Co Robot, for the human-centered applications, such as rehabilitation, medical monitoring and human-robot cooperation.