Bio inspired tactile sensing arrays

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7365, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Dahiya, Ravinder S ^a   Valle, Maurizio ^b   Mettaa, Giorgio ^b   Lorenzelli, Leandro ^c  

^a ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^c ITC IRST   (Italy)

Author keywords

Human touch; MEA; Piezoelectric polymer; POSFET; PVDF TrFE; Robotics; Tactile sensing; Touch sensor

Indexed keywords

HUMAN TOUCH; MEA; PIEZOELECTRIC POLYMER; POSFET; PVDF-TRFE; TACTILE SENSING; TOUCH SENSOR;

ANTHROPOMORPHIC ROBOTS; CONTACT SENSORS; MESFET DEVICES; PIEZOELECTRIC TRANSDUCERS; PIEZOELECTRICITY; POLYMER FILMS; POLYMERS; ROBOTICS; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES; SKIN;

FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTORS;

EID: 69949155060     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.821696     Document Type: Conference Paper

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