A Study on the Tactile Recognition of Finger Using Electrical Stimulus

Seungjik LEE; Jaeho SHIN; Hynpil JOO; Takashi UCHIYAMA; Seiichi NOGUCHI

A Study on the Tactile Recognition of Finger Using Electrical Stimulus

Seungjik LEE, Jaeho SHIN, Hynpil JOO, Takashi UCHIYAMA, Seiichi NOGUCHI

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In this paper, the fundamental characteristics of tactile recognition by electrical stimulus in order to develop a vision substitution system were described. The electrical stimulus pulse or DC voltage was applied at a touch board, and a conducting band which was connected to the ground level was fastened around a root of finger. First of all, the resistance of finger by the DC voltage was measured and the equivalent circuit of a finger was estimated. It was found that the most of resistance of this mechanism was concentrated at the contact of tip of finger and its value reached to MΩ order. And this resistance widely varied by the contact condition. The resistance of finger itself was relatively low and the contact resistance of band connectoin was about 30 kΩ. Total stray capacitance was about 26-62 nF, which was calculated by our experiments. Secondly, the minimum recognition voltage to applied stimulus pulse was measured by changing frequency, duty-ratio and voltage of pulse. It was found that the most sensitive pulse was in situation of that the frequency range was within from 60 Hz to 300 Hz, the duty-ratio of 20%, and the minimum sensitive voltage was about 13V. Lastly, this electrical stimulus pulse was applied to the touch Braille board. A touch Braille board was controlled by a computer (PC8801). In this system, an input letter from keyboard is translated to Braille code data by a computer automatically, which express the letter by the 6 points for the brind. And a Braille data is output at a touch board. By touching on the contact point of the touch board, a person can recognize Braille points by electrical stimulus. It was found that the Braille recognition by electrical stimulus pulse was available as same as it could be done by raised points.

Publication: IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals Vol.E77-A No.6 pp.962-967

Publication Date: 1994/06/25

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Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Section of Papers Selected from 1993 Joint Technical Conference on Circuits/Systems, Computers and Communications (JTC-CSCC'93))

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Seungjik LEE, Jaeho SHIN, Hynpil JOO, Takashi UCHIYAMA, Seiichi NOGUCHI, "A Study on the Tactile Recognition of Finger Using Electrical Stimulus" in IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals, vol. E77-A, no. 6, pp. 962-967, June 1994, doi: .
Abstract: In this paper, the fundamental characteristics of tactile recognition by electrical stimulus in order to develop a vision substitution system were described. The electrical stimulus pulse or DC voltage was applied at a touch board, and a conducting band which was connected to the ground level was fastened around a root of finger. First of all, the resistance of finger by the DC voltage was measured and the equivalent circuit of a finger was estimated. It was found that the most of resistance of this mechanism was concentrated at the contact of tip of finger and its value reached to MΩ order. And this resistance widely varied by the contact condition. The resistance of finger itself was relatively low and the contact resistance of band connectoin was about 30 kΩ. Total stray capacitance was about 26-62 nF, which was calculated by our experiments. Secondly, the minimum recognition voltage to applied stimulus pulse was measured by changing frequency, duty-ratio and voltage of pulse. It was found that the most sensitive pulse was in situation of that the frequency range was within from 60 Hz to 300 Hz, the duty-ratio of 20%, and the minimum sensitive voltage was about 13V. Lastly, this electrical stimulus pulse was applied to the touch Braille board. A touch Braille board was controlled by a computer (PC8801). In this system, an input letter from keyboard is translated to Braille code data by a computer automatically, which express the letter by the 6 points for the brind. And a Braille data is output at a touch board. By touching on the contact point of the touch board, a person can recognize Braille points by electrical stimulus. It was found that the Braille recognition by electrical stimulus pulse was available as same as it could be done by raised points.
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