Artificial whiskers suitable for array implementation: Accounting for lateral slip and surface friction

IEEE Transactions on Robotics

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1157-1167

  Solomon, Joseph H ^a   Hartmann, Mitra J Z ^a  

^a Northwestern University   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomimetic whisker; Feature extraction; Flexible beam; Tactile sensing

Indexed keywords

BIOMIMETICS; EXTRACTIVE METALLURGY; FLEXIBLE STRUCTURES; FRICTION; METHOD OF MOMENTS; ROBOTICS; ROBOTS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ARRAY DESIGNS; BIOMIMETIC WHISKER; CONTACT LOCATIONS; FLEXIBLE BEAM; MULTIPLE CONTACTS; OBJECT BASED; OBJECT SHAPES; SIMULTANEOUS EXTRACTIONS; SURFACE FRICTIONS; TACTILE SENSING;

FEATURE EXTRACTION;

EID: 56049127131     PISSN: 15523098     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TRO.2008.2002562     Document Type: Article

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