MEMS Sensors for Robots

Abstract

Robots don't work well if quality of the input signal to robots is poor. Current low-cost gyroscopes and accelerometers for smartphones do not necessarily provide robots with rich information. Instead of them, high-performance gyroscopes and accelerometers with reasonable price are anticipated for robot control. In addition, new types of sensors including tactile sensors, hyperspectral imagers, taste sensors, and so on are anxiously longed for. In my talk, current issues on robot sensors are introduced. Then, some MEMS robot-sensors we have been working on for a long time are shown in order.