Integrated circuitry to detect slippage inspired by human skin and artificial retinas

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers

Volumn 56, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1554-1565

  Maldonado López, Rocío ^b,c   Vidal Verdú, Fernando ^a   Liñán, Gustavo ^b   Rodriguez Vazquez, Ángel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÁLAGA   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTO DE MICROELECTRÓNICA DE SEVILLA   (Spain)

^c SWISS FEDERAL LABORATORIES FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Bioinspired chips; Slippage detectioin; Tactile sensors

Indexed keywords

TIMING CIRCUITS;

ARTIFICIAL RETINAS; BIOINSPIRED CHIPS; DYNAMIC INFORMATION; INTEGRATED CIRCUITRY; SLIPPAGE DETECTIOIN; SPATIAL TEMPORALS; STANDARD CMOS PROCESS; TACTILE SENSORS;

INTEGRATED CIRCUITS;

EID: 69449089889     PISSN: 15498328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCSI.2008.2008290     Document Type: Article

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