Manufacturing Technology 2024, 24(1):98-103 | DOI: 10.21062/mft.2024.016

Investigating the Pressure Distribution on Uneven Surfaces Using an Educational Robot for Development of Ergonomic School Furniture

Daniel Novák ORCID...1, Viktor Novák ORCID...2, Patrik Voštinár ORCID...1, Jaromír Volf ORCID...2
1 Faculty of Natural Sciences, Matej Bel University Banská Bystrica, Tajovského 40, 974 01 Banská Bystrica, Slovakia
Faculty of Engineering, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Kamýcká 129, 165 00 Prague, Czech Republic

The article presents the method of investigating the pressure distribution on uneven surfaces, used for the development of a new, modern series of school furniture that meets the relevant health, pedagogical and legal requirements. During the examination of pressure conditions on school chairs with a flexible tactile sensor, which was primarilly developed for this purpose, exact data on the immediate differences in contact pressures between the person sitting and the seat are obtained. Based on this information, it is then possible to optimally shape the seats during their design and subsequent production according to the age of the sitters and the needs of the organizational form of teaching from the point of view of the specific character of the teaching environment. Technical parameters of the flexible tactile sensor depend on the shape and number of electrodes, as well as on the conductive inks used, they are stated and dis-cussed within the article. Due to the large number of collected data, a robot, otherwise used in teaching, was used for obtaining of individual loading characteristics of the proposed sensor. At the end of the article, the results obtained by the statistical processing of the measurements are summarized and dis-cussed.

Keywords: Teaching process, School chair, Flexible tactile sensor, Pressure distribution, Educational robot
Grants and funding:

This research was funded by the Technology Agency of The Czech Republic „Research and development of innovative school furniture using sensor technology“, grant number FW01010217
This research was also found by the Research Agency of The Slovak Republic „Influence of selected factors on the characteristics of wood dust during wood processing by electrical tools“, grant number VEGA 1/0323/23

Received: August 5, 2023; Revised: January 26, 2024; Accepted: January 31, 2024; Prepublished online: January 31, 2024; Published: February 23, 2024  Show citation

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Novák D, Novák V, Voštinár P, Volf J. Investigating the Pressure Distribution on Uneven Surfaces Using an Educational Robot for Development of Ergonomic School Furniture. Manufacturing Technology. 2024;24(1):98-103. doi: 10.21062/mft.2024.016.
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