An artificial whisker sensor for robotics

IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems

Volumn 3, Issue , 2002, Pages 2931-2936

  Lungarella, Max ^a   Hafner, Verena V ^a   Pfeifer, Rolf ^a   Yokoi, Hiroshi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; ELECTRIC PROPERTIES; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; SENSORS;

ARTIFICIAL WHISKER SENSOR; ROBOTIC ACTIVE SENSING;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 0036453351     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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