Development of the tactile sensor system of a human-interactive robot "RI-MAN"

IEEE Transactions on Robotics

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 505-512

  Mukai, Toshiharu ^a   Onishi, Masaki ^b   Odashima, Toshiharu ^a   Hirano, Shinya ^a   Luo, Zhiwei ^a  

^a RIKEN   (Japan)

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

Author keywords

Human interactive robots; Tactile sensors; Tactile systems

Indexed keywords

HAPTIC INTERFACES; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; INTERACTIVE DEVICES; SENSORS;

HUMAN-INTERACTIVE ROBOTS; TACTILE SENSOR; TACTILE SYSTEM;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 42549150214     PISSN: 15523098     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TRO.2008.917006     Document Type: Article

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