Local minimum of elastic potential energy on hemispherical soft fingertip

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 2308-2313

  Inoue, Takahiro ^a   Hirai, Shinichi ^a  

^a RITSUMEIKAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Elastic force; Local minimum; Manipulation; Potential energy; Soft fingertip; Tactile sensor

Indexed keywords

BIOSENSORS; DEFORMATION; END EFFECTORS; PHYSIOLOGICAL MODELS; POTENTIAL ENERGY;

ELASTIC FORCE; LOCAL MINIMUM; SOFT FINGERTIP; TACTILE SENSORS;

CONTACT SENSORS;

EID: 33846120645     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBOT.2005.1570457     Document Type: Conference Paper

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