Development and experimental analysis of a soft compliant tactile microsensor for anthropomorphic artificial hand

IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 158-168

  Beccai, Lucia ^a   Roccella, Stefano ^a   Ascari, Luca ^a,b   Valdastri, Pietro ^a   Sieber, Arne ^c   Carrozza, M Chiara ^a   Dario, Paolo ^a  

^a SCUOLA SUPERIORE SANT ANNA   (Italy)

^b HENESIS s r l   (Italy)

^c PROFACTOR GMBH   (Austria)

Author keywords

Artificial hand; Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) packaging; Slippage detection; Tactile microsensor

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ELECTRONICS PACKAGING; END EFFECTORS; MEMS; MICROSENSORS; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY;

ANTHROPOMORPHIC ARTIFICIAL HAND; SLIPPAGE DETECTION; SOFT COMPLIANT TACTILE MICROSENSOR; TACTILE MICROSENSOR;

ANTHROPOMORPHIC ROBOTS;

EID: 43249121660     PISSN: 10834435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMECH.2008.918483     Document Type: Article

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