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Mini45 Force/Torque Sensor

About

About Mini45 Force/Torque Sensor

Mini45 measures force along three axes and torque around three axes through silicon strain gauges mounted within a 45-millimetre sensor body. The gauges produce a signal roughly 75 times stronger than conventional foil designs, helping the sensor resolve small contact changes while supporting larger working loads.

A central through-hole allows cables, pneumatic lines or tooling services to pass through the robot wrist. Calibration variants cover different force and torque ranges, including standard capacities reaching approximately ±1,160 newtons and ±20 newton-metres for manipulation, testing, teleoperation and force-control applications.

Research

  • BASEPROD: The Bardenas Semi-Desert Planetary Rover Dataset

    2024-09-27 - Research Publication - BASEPROD releases planetary-rover field data from Spain's Bardenas semi-desert, including measurements from six ATI Mini45 sensors mounted at the rover wheel legs.

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  • A Passivity-Based Framework for Safe Physical Human–Robot Interaction

    2023-08-14 - Research Publication - A passivity-based physical human-robot interaction controller is evaluated on a Baxter robot carrying an ATI Mini45 at the wrist.

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  • Development of a Real-Time 6-DOF Motion-Tracking System for Robotic Computer-Assisted Implant Surgery

    2023-02-22 - Research Publication - A real-time six-degree-of-freedom tracker for robotic implant surgery uses an ATI Mini45 to measure friction and inertial forces during back-drivability experiments.

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  • Force Myography-Based Human Robot Interactions via Deep Domain Adaptation and Generalization

    2021-12-29 - Research Publication - A physical human-robot interaction study uses an ATI Mini45 inside a planar robot gripper as ground truth for force-myography domain-adaptation models.

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Context

Market context

Mini45 is ATI Industrial Automation's compact six-axis force/torque sensor family for robot wrists, grippers, teleoperation rigs, and manipulation research.

  • Target environment: Robot arms, dexterous hands, grippers, teleoperation systems, lab automation rigs, and manipulation research platforms.
  • Workflow context: Contact-force measurement, wrist feedback, grasp evaluation, insertion tasks, teleoperation feedback, and manipulation-control data capture.
  • Customer context: Robot OEMs, research labs, integrators, gripper makers, and automation teams building contact-rich manipulation systems.
  • Deployment model: Sensor integration between robot flange and end effector, with calibration and signal processing matched to the customer application.
  • Commercial maturity: Commercial ATI force/torque sensor family with public model and calibration information.
  • Adoption constraints: Adoption depends on force range, overload protection, mechanical adapter design, calibration, controller integration, and whether the task needs six-axis feedback.
  • Market position: Manipulation feedback component for robotics and automation systems.
  • Adjacent products: OAK-D Pro AI Stereo Camera, AK80-9 V3.0 Robotic Actuator, CSD-2A Component Set

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