Development of a tactile sensor based on biologically inspired edge encoding

2009 International Conference on Advanced Robotics, ICAR 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Chorley, Craig ^a   Melhuish, Chris ^a   Pipe, Tony ^a   Rossiter, Jonathan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICALLY INSPIRED; EDGE INFORMATION; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; HIGHLY SENSITIVE; MECHANORECEPTORS; NEW THEORY; ROBOTIC FINGERTIP; SENSITIVE DETECTION; STRUCTURAL DETAILS; SUBCUTANEOUS FAT; SURFACE DEFLECTION; TACTILE SENSORS;

ENCODING (SYMBOLS); MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; OCEAN STRUCTURES; POLYMER MELTS; ROBOTICS; ROBOTS; RUBBER; SKIN;

SENSORS;

EID: 70449331682     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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