Touch sensors for humanoid hands

Proceedings - IEEE International Workshop on Robot and Human Interactive Communication

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 691-697

  Schmitz, Alexander ^a,b   Maggiali, Marco ^a   Natale, Lorenzo ^a   Metta, Giorgio ^a,c  

^a ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPACITIVE PRESSURE SENSORS; DESIGN FACTORS; HUMANOID HAND; HUMANOID ROBOT; HUMANOID ROBOT HAND; OBJECT HANDLING; RELIABLE MEASUREMENT; SENSE OF TOUCH; SENSITIVE ZONES; STILL MISSING; TOUCH SENSORS; WORKING PRINCIPLES;

ANTHROPOMORPHIC ROBOTS; SILICONES;

SENSORS;

EID: 78649877213     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROMAN.2010.5598609     Document Type: Conference Paper

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