Flexible full-body tactile sensor of low cost and minimal output connections for service robot

Industrial Robot

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 485-491

  Pan, Zengxi ^a,b   Zhu, Zhenqi ^a,b  

^a STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Stevens Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Robotics; Sensors; Tactile sensors

Indexed keywords

CURVED SURFACE; MULTI-LAYER STRUCTURE; STRUCTURE DESIGN; TACTILE SENSORS;

ELECTRIC CONNECTORS; MACHINE DESIGN; NETWORKS (CIRCUITS); ROBOTICS; ROBOTS;

SENSORS;

EID: 27744509833     PISSN: 0143991X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/01439910510629217     Document Type: Article

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