Highly soft viscoelastic robot skin with a contact object-location-sensing capability

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 960-968

  Yamada, Yoji ^a   Morizono, Tetsuya ^b   Umetani, Yoji ^c   Takahashi, Hitoshi ^d  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^b TOYOTA TECHNOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^c Secom Intelligent Systems Laboratories   (Japan)

^d TOSHIBA CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Compliance matching; Contact location sensing optical image guide fiber; Lagrangian multiplier; Maximum likelihood estimation; Optimal plane fitting; Viscoelastic robot skin

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; MECHATRONICS; OBJECT RECOGNITION; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; SENSORS; VISCOELASTICITY;

COMPLIANCE MATCHING; CONTACT LOCATION SENSING; OPTICAL IMAGE GUIDE FIBER; OPTIMAL PLANE FITTING; VISCOELASTIC ROBOT SKIN;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 24144499968     PISSN: 02780046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIE.2005.851654     Document Type: Article

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