Morphology Extension Kit: A Modular Robotic Platform for Customizable and Physically Capable Wearables
Morphology Extension Kit: A Modular Robotic Platform for Customizable and Physically Capable Wearables
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形态学扩展套件：用于可定制和物理功能可穿戴设备的模块化机器人平台
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10.1145/3027063.3052969
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2017
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P. Maes
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作者：
Sang;K. Parekh;T. Denton;William S. Peebles;Magnus H. Johnson;P. Maes
机器人和形状变化的界面暗示了一种将物理材料作为人类用户的扩展的方法，然而，快速变化的环境带来了一系列不同的问题，这些问题很难通过一个单一的界面来解决。为了解决这一问题，我们提出了一个模块化的硬件平台，允许用户或设计师构建和定制物理增强。构建增强功能的过程只需连接执行器和传感器模块，并将生成的可穿戴设备连接到车身上。目前的设计可以很容易地进行修改，以加入额外的电子设备，以实现所需的传感功能。我们的通用连接器设计可以扩展到使用在承受的功率、尺寸和重量限制范围内的任何电机。
Robotic and shape-changing interfaces hint at a way to incorporate physical materials as extensions for human users, however, rapidly changing environments pose a diverse set of problems that are difficult to solve with a single interface. To address this, we propose a modular hardware platform that allows users or designers to build and customize physical augmentations. The process of building an augmentation is simply to connect actuator and sensor blocks and attach the resulting wearable to the body. The current design can be easily modified to incorporate additional electronics for desired sensing capabilities. Our universal connector designs can be extended to utilize any motors within afforded power, size, and weight constraints.