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Feeling What an Insect Feels

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  • Abdenbi Mohand Ousaid
  • Guillaume Millet
  • Sinan Haliyo
  • Stéphane Régnier
  • Vincent Hayward

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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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  • Abdenbi Mohand Ousaid & Guillaume Millet & Sinan Haliyo & Stéphane Régnier & Vincent Hayward, 2014. "Feeling What an Insect Feels," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 9(10), pages 1-6, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:plo:pone00:0108895
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0108895
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