Feeling What an Insect Feels

Abdenbi Mohand Ousaid, Guillaume Millet, Sinan Haliyo, Stéphane Régnier and Vincent Hayward

PLOS ONE, 2014, vol. 9, issue 10, 1-6

Abstract: We describe a manually operated, bilateral mechanical scaling instrument that simultaneously magnifies microscopic forces and reduces displacements with quasi-perfect transparency. In contrast with existing micro-teleoperation designs, the system is unconditionally stable for any scaling gains and interaction curves. In the present realization, the work done by the hand is more than a million times that done by a microscopic probe so that one can feel complete interaction cycles with water and compare them to what is felt when an insect leg interacts with a wet surface.

Date: 2014
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