A biomimetic MEMS-based tactile sensor array with fingerprints integrated in a robotic fingertip for artificial roughness encoding

2009 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, ROBIO 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 894-900

  Oddo, Calogero M ^a   Beccai, Lucia ^b   Muscolo, Giovanni G ^a   Carrozza, Maria Chiara ^a  

^a ARTS Lab of Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna   (Italy)

^b ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3-D MEMS; ARTIFICIAL MATERIAL; ARTIFICIAL ROUGHNESS; CONSTANT SPEED; EPIDERMAL RIDGE; FREQUENCY SHIFT; FULL INTEGRATION; NORMAL CONTACT FORCE; PERIODIC GRATINGS; ROBOTIC FINGERTIP; SENSING TECHNOLOGY; SENSOR OUTPUT; SLIDING MOTIONS; SLIDING VELOCITIES; SPATIAL PERIODICITY; SPECTRAL COMPONENTS; TACTILE SENSOR ARRAY;

ENCODING (SYMBOLS); ROBOTICS; ROBOTS; SENSOR ARRAYS;

BIOMIMETICS;

EID: 77951497079     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBIO.2009.5420491     Document Type: Conference Paper

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