Robotic Tactile Graphical Printing With Adhesive Inks

使用粘性油墨的机器人触觉图形打印

• 批准号: 8319949
• 负责人: Andrew J Chepaitis
• 金额: $ 29.82万
• 依托单位: ELIA LIFE TECHNOLOGY, INC.
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-06-01 至 2014-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8319949
• 关键词: Adhesives; Caliber; Computer software; Congresses; Custom; Deposition; Development; Devices; Education; Employment; Engineering; Equipment; Graph; Healthcare; Home environment; Ink; Label; Libraries; Life; Manufacturer Name; Marketing; Mechanics; Modeling; Moon; New York; Operating System; Outcome; Output; Paper; Performance; Phase; Printing; Production; Quality of life; Reading; Research; Research Personnel; Research Project Grants; Residual state; Resolution; Robotics; Societies; Solid; Speed; System; Tactile; Target Populations; Technology; Temperature; Testing; Text; Time; Touch sensation; Universities; Vision; Visual; Visual impairment; base; blind; braille; cohort; commercial application; cost; experience; foot; improved; innovation; meetings; research study; technology development; usability

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): ELT proposes to develop an inexpensive printer whose output can be read by touch and sight. The printed output will serve as a bridge to society's graphics rich information - for those who are blind as well as those who have a fair bit of residual vision and would benefit from multimodal print materials. The team of engineers and university researchers will leverage Rapid Prototyping (RP) technology's platform innovations, and modify commercially available off-the- shelf materials to achieve the aims. By leveraging existing technologies with known performance, ELT can keep the costs of the printers and their printed materials low. The team expects that the printer, once fully developed, would be capable of printing raised output that meet Library of Congress standards for tactile text production of braille (and other tactile fonts) as well as solid line drawings (e.g. graphs, charts, drawings, an mathematical and scientific information) in a manner that is robust, provides excellent resolution, and is both easy to feel and easy to see. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: The research will develop a tactile printer to produce text and graphics that are both tactile and visual. Those who have a visual impairment will use the printer to achieve greater levels of independence, employment and education. Consequently, they are expected to require less health care and enjoy a higher quality of life.

描述（由申请人提供）：ELT 提议开发一种廉价的打印机，其输出可以通过触摸和视觉读取。印刷输出将成为通向社会图形丰富信息的桥梁——对于那些盲人以及那些有相当多残余视力的人来说，并且将从多模式印刷材料中受益。工程师和大学研究人员团队将利用快速原型（RP）技术的平台创新，并修改市售的现成材料以实现目标。通过利用具有已知性能的现有技术，ELT 可以降低打印机及其打印材料的成本。该团队预计，打印机一旦完全开发出来，将能够打印出符合国会图书馆盲文（和其他触觉字体）触觉文本制作以及实线图（例如图表、图表、绘图、数学和科学信息）以一种稳健的方式，提供出色的分辨率，并且易于感觉和易于查看。 公共健康相关性：该研究将开发一种触觉打印机，以生成触觉和视觉的文本和图形。那些有视力障碍的人将使用打印机来实现更高水平的独立、就业和教育。因此，他们预计需要更少的医疗保健并享受更高的生活质量。