Finger-shaped GelForce: Sensor for measuring surface traction fields for robotic hand

IEEE Transactions on Haptics

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 37-47

  Sato, Katsunari ^a   Kamiyama, Kazuto ^b   Kawakami, Naoki ^a   Tachi, Susumu ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRO COMMUNICATIONS   (Japan)

^c KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Finger shape; Force sensor; Robotic hand.; Surface traction field

Indexed keywords

COMPLICATED SHAPE; CONVERSION EQUATION; ELASTIC BODY; ELASTIC THEORY; FIELD TEST; FINGER SHAPE; FORCE SENSOR; FORCE VECTORS; HAPTIC SENSORS; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; ROBOTIC HANDS; SIMPLE STRUCTURES; SURFACE TRACTION FIELD; VISION-BASED SENSORS;

ROBOTIC ARMS; ROBOTICS; SENSORS; TRACTION (FRICTION);

END EFFECTORS;

EID: 77950337961     PISSN: 19391412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TOH.2009.47     Document Type: Article

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