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FootTile: a Rugged Foot Sensor for Force and Center of Pressure Sensing in Soft Terrain

2020

Conference Paper

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In this paper, we present FootTile, a foot sensor for reaction force and center of pressure sensing in challenging terrain. We compare our sensor design to standard biomechanical devices, force plates and pressure plates. We show that FootTile can accurately estimate force and pressure distribution during legged locomotion. FootTile weighs 0.9g, has a sampling rate of 330 Hz, a footprint of 10×10 mm and can easily be adapted in sensor range to the required load case. In three experiments, we validate: first, the performance of the individual sensor, second an array of FootTiles for center of pressure sensing and third the ground reaction force estimation during locomotion in granular substrate. We then go on to show the accurate sensing capabilities of the waterproof sensor in liquid mud, as a showcase for real world rough terrain use.

Author(s): Felix Ruppert and Alexander Badri-Spröwitz
Book Title: 2020 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2020)
Pages: 4810--4816
Year: 2020
Publisher: IEEE

Department(s): Dynamic Locomotion
Research Project(s): Rugged contact sensors
Bibtex Type: Conference Paper (inproceedings)
Paper Type: Conference

DOI: 10.1109/ICRA40945.2020.9197466
Event Name: IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2020)
Event Place: Paris, France

Address: Piscataway, NJ
ISBN: 978-1-7281-7395-5
State: Published
URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2005.09025

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@inproceedings{ruppert2020a,
  title = {FootTile: a Rugged Foot Sensor for Force and Center of Pressure Sensing in Soft Terrain},
  author = {Ruppert, Felix and Badri-Spr{\"o}witz, Alexander},
  booktitle = {2020 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2020)},
  pages = {4810--4816},
  publisher = {IEEE},
  address = {Piscataway, NJ},
  year = {2020},
  doi = {10.1109/ICRA40945.2020.9197466},
  url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/2005.09025}
}