[D94] The tactile toolbox

In this demo we will present the tactile toolbox. The tactile toolbox is a software tool which can detect the contact point of a finger interacting with a shape placed on a force/torque sensor. We will show the application of this toolbox both on commercial force/torque sensor and on a custom made 36 axis force/torque sensor of cubical shape where each face is a 6 axis F/T sensor. This device allows to measure all force and torque components during a human grasp. Different patches can be attached on the sensor active faces in order to obtain a multi-shape sensorized object for characterizing grasps on different geometric primitives.