A high-speed mesh of tactile sensors fitting arbitrary surfaces

IEEE Sensors Journal

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 822-830

  Shimojo, Makoto ^a   Araki, Takuma ^a   Ming, Aigou ^a   Ishikawa, Masatoshi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRO COMMUNICATIONS   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

High speed response; Mesh structure; Reducing wiring; Robot skin; Tactile sensing

Indexed keywords

ARBITRARY SURFACES; CENTER POINTS; HIGH-SPEED; MESH STRUCTURES; ROBOT SKIN; SENSOR AREA; SENSOR RESPONSE TIME; SIGNAL WIRES; TACTILE SENSING; TACTILE SENSORS; WIRING REQUIREMENTS;

ROBOTS; SPEED; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

SENSORS;

EID: 77949360254     PISSN: 1530437X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSEN.2009.2034982     Document Type: Article

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