Deformable skin design to enhance response of a biomimetic tactile sensor

Proceedings of the 2nd Biennial IEEE/RAS-EMBS International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics, BioRob 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 132-137

  Wettels, Nicholas ^a   Smith, Lorenzo M ^b   Santos, Veronica J ^c   Loeb, Gerald E ^a  

^a University of Southern California ^*  (United States)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c OAKLAND UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMIMETICS; DEFORMATION; MOTION CONTROL; OPTICAL SENSORS; ROBOTICS; ROBOTS; TEXTURES;

APPROPRIATE MATERIALS; BIO-MIMETIC; CONDUCTIVE FLUIDS; DIFFUSION LOSS; FINITE ELEMENT MODELS; GRASPING OBJECTS; INNER SURFACES; RIGID CORES; ROBOTIC HANDS; ROBUST SENSING; SENSOR SURFACES; SLIP CONDITIONS; TACTILE SENSORS; UNSTRUCTURED ENVIRONMENTS; WIDE DYNAMIC RANGES;

SKIN;

EID: 63049137548     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/BIOROB.2008.4762914     Document Type: Conference Paper

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