Active antenna for contact sensing

IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 278-291

  Kaneko, Makoto ^a,b   Kanayama, Naoki ^b   Tsuji, Toshio ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (Japan)

^b HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Active antenna; Contact point sensing; Tactile sensing

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CONTACT SENSORS;

TACTILE SENSING;

ANTENNAS;

EID: 0032047562     PISSN: 1042296X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/70.681246     Document Type: Article

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