PVDF-based biomimetic sensor for application in crawling soft-body mini-robots

IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 1960-1965

  Liu, Weiting ^a,b,c   Menciassi, A ^b   Scapellato, S ^b   Dario, P ^b   Chen, Yuquan ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SCUOLA SUPERIORE SANT ANNA   (Italy)

^c IMT SCHOOL FOR ADVANCED STUDIES LUCCA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Biomimetic flexible sensor; Earthworm like crawling minirobot; Exteroception; Proprioception

Indexed keywords

BIOFILMS; BIOMIMETIC MATERIALS; ROBOTS; SENSORY PERCEPTION; SILICONES;

BIOMIMETIC SENSORS; EARTHWORMS; EXTEROCEPTION; PROPRIOCEPTIVE FUNCTIONS;

BIOSENSORS;

EID: 34250643506     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2006.282402     Document Type: Conference Paper

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