A prototype fingertip with high spatial resolution pressure sensing for the robot iCub

2008 8th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots, Humanoids 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 423-428

  Schmitz, Alexander ^a   Maggiali, Marco ^a   Randazzo, Marco ^a   Natale, Lorenzo ^a   Metta, Giorgio ^a,b  

^a ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTELLIGENT ROBOTS; PRESSURE SENSORS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SILICONES; SURFACE STRUCTURE;

A/D CONVERSIONS; CAPACITIVE PRESSURE SENSORS; ELECTRONIC DEVICES; HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTIONS; HUMANOID ROBOTS; INNER STRUCTURES; OBJECT MANIPULATIONS; PRESSURE SENSING; SENSITIVE ZONES; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIOS; TACTILE FEEDBACKS; UNKNOWN ENVIRONMENTS;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 63549121169     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICHR.2008.4755988     Document Type: Conference Paper

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