Flexible angular transducer
The utility model is a kind of angular-sensitive device with good flexibility, can cooperate the measurement of finishing given angle with signaling conversion circuit, A/D integrated circuit board and computer system.
For data glove, the bend sensor of measurement user finger gesture and the development of abduction sensor are extremely important.The known several data glove and the bend sensor of use thereof are as follows with the abduction sensor situation: a) the data glove 5DT DATA GLOVE of the data glove Data glove of U.S. VPL company, Fifth Dimension Tech. company has adopted different optical fiber as bend sensor with the data glove that Beijing Institute of Technology develops.Fibre Optical Sensor has utilized the light of transmission when light transmitting fiber is crooked that loss will be arranged, and the characteristics that the light quantity of Optical Fiber Transmission is relevant with its degree of crook divide the light quantity of accepting to measure the angle of bend and the abduction state of finger by the detection fiber light accepting part.The major defect of this type of sensor is that illuminating circuit and light receiving detection circuit, systematic comparison complexity need be set specially.In addition, Fibre Optical Sensor also the phenomenon that fractures can occur after using the long period.B) EXOS data glove Dexterous Hard Master (DHM) adopts one and is fixed on user's outer skeleton structure on hand, and each joint of outer skeleton structure can be with the action campaign of user's hand.A hall device is installed, in order to measure a kind of angle of bend of pointing an abduction situation or a finger-joint on each joint of outer skeleton.The data glove that BJ University of Aeronautics ﹠ Astronautics develops has also adopted the outer skeleton structure that is similar to Dexterous Hand Master, but has adopted potentiometer to replace hall device as bend sensor and abduction sensor.The shortcoming that realizes bend sensor and abduction sensor in this way is that the structure of data glove is too complicated, uses very inconvenient.C) use among the data glove Cyberglove of U.S. Virtual Technology company and a kind ofly have the resistance-strain device of small size very as bend sensor and abduction sensor.Adopts the data glove of this sensor to use more convenient and have better performance, but shortcoming is selling at exorbitant prices that non-general R﹠D institution can bear.
It is good that the purpose of this utility model is to propose a kind of flexibility, and size is little, and cost is low, and reliable operation can be used as the flexible angular transducer that data glove bend sensor and abduction sensor use.Adopted should the flexibility angular transducer data glove have simple in structurely, easy to operate, cost is low, use characteristics such as reliable.
Technical essential of the present utility model is its basic structure as shown in Figure 1.
Inner lead 2 and outside lead 6 are two ends of same diaphragm type flat conductor 1.The acting surface of the conductor part of inner lead 2 and thin film flexible force sensing resistance 3 is close together.Inner lead 2, thin film flexible force sensing resistance 3 and auxiliary material 4 are loaded in the thermoplastic tube 5 as encapsulating material, and thermoplastic tube 5 post shrinkage of being heated is packaged together inner lead 2, thin film flexible force sensing resistance 3 and auxiliary material 4.Therefore, the size of flexible angular transducer depends on selected inner lead 2, thin film flexible force sensing resistance, auxiliary material 4 and as the size of the thermoplastic tube 5 of encapsulating material.Outside lead 6 is that diaphragm type flat conductor 1 is in the part outside the encapsulation, and its length can be chosen as required.Outside lead 6 is connected with signaling conversion circuit.The computer system signal is finished measurement to angle by signaling conversion circuit and A/D integrated circuit board.
Compare with existing bend sensor, the flexible angular transducer itself that the utility model proposes has flexible good, and cost is low, is difficult for impaired, size such as can make as required at advantage, is very suitable for using as the bend sensor and the abduction sensor of data glove.In addition, because the flexible angular transducer that the utility model proposes is actually a resistance, so the structure of its signaling conversion circuit and sample circuit is also very simple.Compare with the data glove that adopts other sensor, it is simple in structure to have adopted the flexible angular transducer that the utility model proposes to have as the data glove of bend sensor and abduction sensor, and cost is low, in light weight, flexible and convenient to use, advantage such as reliability and durability has stronger practicality.
Description of drawings: Fig. 1 is flexible angular transducer structural drawing: 1-diaphragm type flat conductor, the 2-inner lead, 3-thin film flexible force sensing resistance, the 4-auxiliary material, the 5-encapsulating material, 6-outside lead Fig. 2 is the application system figure of flexible angular transducer in data glove: 1-bend sensor, 2-abduction sensor
Embodiment:
Fig. 2 has provided the systematic schematic diagram when the utility model is applied to data glove.
The utility model partly is made up of thin film flexible force sensing resistance, inner lead, outside lead, auxiliary material and encapsulating material etc., and size of devices can be made as required.Flexible angular transducer is close on the measured angle, can finishes surveying work by the computer sampling system.This sensor can be used for the angle between Measuring Object surface curvature angle or two objects, is applicable to accuracy requirement not too high but need carry out continuously and the occasion of measuring fast angle.It is that a plurality of flexible angular transducers are installed in composition data gloves on the gloves as bend sensor and abduction sensor respectively that a kind of typical case of the present utility model uses.When the user put on data glove, the computer sampling system can obtain the information of user's hand motion by each bend sensor and abduction sensor are detected, therefore can be by the action control operation object of hand.This data glove can be used for virtual reality system and teleoperation robot system.In virtual reality system, the effect of data glove is to carry out the instrument of real-time, interactive for the operator provides a kind of computing machine with the generation virtual environment; And in the teleoperation robot system, the main effect of data glove then is for the ease of the operator robot away from the scene to be carried out straighforward operation.
Concrete using method is as follows:
The flexible angular transducer that the utility model proposes is made into appropriate size according to the needs of data glove bend sensor and abduction sensor, and they are sewn on position relevant with hand deformationization with other with finger-joint on the gloves, as shown in Figure 2.Because data glove itself with there being certain flexible material to make, so when the operator puts on data glove, the each several part of gloves will be close to the operator on hand, thereby makes the flexible angular transducer that is sewn on the data glove also be close to the operator on hand.The corresponding variation will take place with the variation of operator's hand shape in the angle of bend of each flexible angular transducer.As shown in Figure 2, be sewn on the variation that the flexible angular transducer at 1 position can be measured the finger-joint angle, use as bend sensor; And the flexible angular transducer that is sewn on 2 position can be measured finger abduction situation, uses as the abduction sensor.Equally, flexible angular transducer can be installed in the respective change of other position measure operator hand shape of gloves.When the operator puts on data glove when carrying out grasp motion, the angle of bend of each flexible angular transducer will change with the variation of operator's hand shape, operator's hand shape difference, and the angle of bend of each flexible bending sensor is also with difference.Therefore, the sampling system that utilization is made up of signaling conversion circuit, A/D sampling integrated circuit board and computing machine is carried out continuous sampling to the output of each flexible angular transducer, just can obtain the data of operator's hand deformationization, and by operator's hand motion control related object.Because the flexible angular transducer that the utility model proposes has characteristics such as volume is little, in light weight, and flexible good cost is low, so it is low that the data glove made from this flexible angular transducer also has a cost, in light weight, flexible and convenient to use, have stronger characteristics such as practicality.