Extending our Nocioceptive Sense to Structures: Haptic Interfaces for Structural Health Monitoring

摘要

The ultimate goal of the structural health monitoring (SHM) field is to endow structures with arnnervous system not unlike those found in biological organisms. We started asking the question,rncould a more kinesthetic strategy help us address challenges the structural health monitoringrncommunity was facing with respect to detecting and characterizing damage? Could we use hapticrninterfaces to endow humans with a nocioceptive sense for a structure? At least four differentrnstudies involving various haptic interfaces for structural health monitoring have been executed. Inrnthis presentation we will review the principles of the haptic SHM paradigm, we will provide arnsummary of the results completed to date, the particular applications the paradigm seems suitedrnto, and we will discuss the research problems that need to be addressed to advance this paradigm.