Towards humanlike social touch for sociable robotics and prosthetics: Comparisons on the compliance, conformance and hysteresis of synthetic and human fingertip skins

International Journal of Social Robotics

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 29-40

  Cabibihan, John John ^a,b   Pattofatto, Stéphane ^c   Jomâa, Moez ^c,d   Benallal, Ahmed ^c   Carrozza, Maria Chiara ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b SCUOLA SUPERIORE SANT ANNA   (Italy)

^c CNRS   (France)

^d SINTEF MATERIALS AND CHEMISTRY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Artificial skin; Bio robotics and biomedical robotics; Conformance; Finite element method; Hysteresis; Prosthetics; Skin compliance

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ROBOTS; ARTIFICIAL ORGANS; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; HYSTERESIS; POLYURETHANES; PROSTHETICS; ROBOTICS; SILICONES;

ARTIFICIAL SKIN; BIOMECHANICAL BEHAVIOR; BIOMEDICAL ROBOTICS; CONFORMANCE; DESIGN CONFIGURATIONS; MATERIALS CHARACTERIZATION; POLYURETHANE MATERIALS; SOCIABLE ROBOTICS;

SOCIAL ROBOTS;

EID: 70350611496     PISSN: 18754791     EISSN: 18754805     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12369-008-0008-9     Document Type: Article

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