Robotic Measurement for Electrical Property of Polymers by Force-Sensing Robot Toward Materials Lab-Automation

With the background of research on materials laboratory automation, this study aims to construct an au- tomation system for measuring dielectric property, which is an electrical property of materials. The automation system is composed of the combination of a manipulation by a force- sensing robot and a control system for the measurement instrument. As challenges for the automation system, we worked on stabilizing a polymer film placement during insertion into the measurement instrument, implementing a communication control system between different platforms, and constructing a polymer film transfer environment. In the measurement experiment using the automation system, it was confirmed that the dielectric properties could be measured as well as that of a human.