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착용용 보행로봇의 허벅지 힘측정을 위한 힘센서 설계

Design of a Force Sensor for Thigh Force Measurement of a Wearable Walking Robot

Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering 2017;34(10):707-713.
Published online: October 1, 2017

1 경상대학교 제어계측공학과

1 Department of Control & Instrumentation Engineering, ERI, Gyeongsang National University

#E-mail: gskim@gsnu.ac.kr, TEL: +82-55-772-1745, FAX: +82-55-772-1749
• Received: March 2, 2017   • Revised: May 12, 2017   • Accepted: June 9, 2017

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Design of a Force Sensor for Thigh Force Measurement of a Wearable Walking Robot
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Fig. 1 Principle of thigh link configuration and force measurement of wearable walking robot
Fig. 2 Structure of three-axis force/torque sensor
Fig. 3 Wheastone bridge for three-axis force sensor
Fig. 4 Attachment locations of strain gages on each sensing element of three-axis force sensor
Fig. 5 Deformed shape of thigh link three-axis force sensor
Fig. 6 Strain distribution on each beam of thigh link three-axis force sensor
Fig. 7 Photograph of the manufactured thigh link three-axis force sensors
Fig. 8 Experimental setup for the characteristic test of thigh link three-axis force sensor
Fig. 9 Experimental setup for the calibration test of three-axis force sensor
Design of a Force Sensor for Thigh Force Measurement of a Wearable Walking Robot

Strains from FEM analysis at each attachment location of strain-gages of each sensor of thigh link three-axis force sensor

Three-Axis force/
torque sensor
Thickness
(mm)
Length
(mm)
Width
(mm)
Fx sensor (300 N) T1 = 0.68 L1 = 5 B1 = 74
Tz sensor (15 N m) T1’ = 1.28 L1’ = 5 B1 = 74
Fz sensor (100 N) T2 = 1.38 L2 = 10 B2 = 14

Rated output from FEM analysis and characteristic test of each sensor of thigh link three-axis force sensor

Sensor Rated output (mV/V) Error
(%)
FEM Exp.
Fx 0.5055 0.4998 -1.2
Fy 0.5024 0.4922 -2.1
Fz 0.0995 0.0973 -2.2

Non-Linearity error and repeatability error of thigh link three-axis force sensor

Sensor Repeatability error (%) Non-Linearity error (%)
Fx 0.03 0.04
Fy 0.04 0.04
Fz 0.04 0.04

Repeatability error and non-linearity error of thigh link three-axis force sensor in the calibration

Sensor Repeatability error (%) Non-Linearity error (%)
Fx 0.1 0.1
Fy 0.1 0.1
Fz 0.1 0.1
Table 1 Strains from FEM analysis at each attachment location of strain-gages of each sensor of thigh link three-axis force sensor
Table 2 Rated output from FEM analysis and characteristic test of each sensor of thigh link three-axis force sensor
Table 3 Non-Linearity error and repeatability error of thigh link three-axis force sensor
Table 4 Repeatability error and non-linearity error of thigh link three-axis force sensor in the calibration