A Wearable Braille Sensor System With a Post Processing

This paper is a study on the development of a wearable sensor system for reading Braille. The study is intended to develop a compact tactile sensor system, which uses a polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) film for the sensory receptor. The sensor is mounted onto a fingertip and moved over Braille manuall...

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Published in:IEEE/ASME transactions on mechatronics 2007-08, Vol.12 (4), p.430-438
Main Authors: Tanaka, M., Miyata, K., Chonan Seiji
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Biomedical optical imaging
Braille
Dictionaries
Fingers
Movements
Optical devices
Optical films
Optical sensors
Performance enhancement
polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) film
Polyvinylidene fluorides
post processing
Recognition
recognition system
Robustness
Sensor systems
Sensors
Strings
tactile sensor
Tactile sensors
Wearable
Wearable sensors
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Summary:This paper is a study on the development of a wearable sensor system for reading Braille. The study is intended to develop a compact tactile sensor system, which uses a polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) film for the sensory receptor. The sensor is mounted onto a fingertip and moved over Braille manually to obtain the output. Since the unsteady movements yield variations in the waveforms, a robust recognition system has been developed. In this study, the post processing is introduced into the recognition system for the improvement of the performance. Two different methods of post processing are developed and examined. In the first method, an appropriate letter string is generated by evaluating the connectivity of letters with information on signals. In the second method, the dictionary in which letter strings are recorded is incorporated as the prior knowledge. Finally, both the methods of post processing are combined to enhance the performance. The combined post processing is incorporated to the wearable sensor system, and the performance of the sensor system is evaluated experimentally. The results show that the sensor system is effective to recognize Braille.
ISSN:1083-4435
1941-014X
DOI:10.1109/TMECH.2007.901923