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Journal Articles PLoS ONE Year : 2014

Feeling What an Insect Feels

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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.
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hal-01368400 , version 1 (19-09-2016)

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Abdenbi Mohand Ousaid, Guillaume Millet, Sinan Haliyo, Stéphane Régnier, Vincent Hayward. Feeling What an Insect Feels. PLoS ONE, 2014, 9 (10), pp.e108895. ⟨10.1371/journal.pone.0108895⟩. ⟨hal-01368400⟩
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