Comparison of Sensor Types for Differentiating Properties of an Object

Ihemriorochi Amanze

In this country, 2.1 million people live with limb loss and of those people, 75% use a prosthesis of some sort. Current Prosthesis used today suffer from a multitude of issues that need to be improved upon such as overpricing, weight, and feedback. Haptic feedback is the sense of touch we receive in response to contact with skin and nerves including things such as pressure, temperature, force, and vibration feedback. Prosthesis users are deprived of certain feedback making accurate and price control of the prosthesis more difficult. My research focused on developing and testing sensors for a prosthesis to discriminate between parts of a regular object. This is accomplished using a testing method that checks three parts of the cube in 10-second increments.