Object Recognition Through Manipulation Using Tactile Enabled Prosthetic Fingers and Feedback Glove - Experimental Study

This paper discusses an experimental study – from a human-centered perspective – of object recognition through in-hand manipulation by operators using tactile-enabled prosthetic fingertips equipped with multimodal cutaneous tactile sensors and a feedback glove to interactively convey force, vibration, and temperature feedback to the human operator’s hand. Results of experiments involving passive and active touch conducted by five human subjects revealed that such a system increases operator’s ability to efficiently perform object recognition tasks.