介護環境用弾性表面波嗅覚センサの基礎研究(第1報)

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A new concept called "Network Robot" has been proposed recently. In this network, all installations within homes, offices and hospitals cooperate with robots to provide sophisticated robot-services that can not be offered by a single robot. For this field, high-sensing techniques are said to be required in the future together with the mechatronics, robot-communication and robot-platform techniques. Our study has focused on developing a high-sensing technique which can be applied to future nursing-robot network systems. A high-performance SAW (Surface Acoustic Wave) smell sensor to be installed in nursing-robots to check the smell of sickroom, body-odor, and halitosis of patients and invalids is to be developed. Based on a possible new SAW subtle-gas sensor for hydrogen-gas leakage for future fuel-cell cars we already developed, a new smell sensor will be developed. A new type of interdigital transducer (IDT) to excite SAWs is designed to create a prototype device using BERC's process facilities. In this paper, the above design and fabrication procedures as well as basic experimental results will be presented.
工学院大学の論文
2009-10-30