Haptic sensing foot system for humanoid robot and ground recognition with one-leg balance

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics

Volumn 58, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 3174-3186

  Suwanratchatamanee, Kitti ^a   Matsumoto, Mitsuharu ^b   Hashimoto, Shuji ^a  

^a WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRO COMMUNICATIONS   (Japan)

Author keywords

Ground floor recognition; haptic sensor; human robot interactions; robots; tactile sensor

Indexed keywords

BIPED WALKING ROBOTS; FORCE SENSITIVE RESISTORS; GROUND FLOOR; GROUND SURFACES; HAPTIC SENSORS; HUMANOID ROBOT; PERIPHERAL CIRCUITS; POSTURE CONTROL; RESEARCH OBJECTIVES; ROBOT BODY; ROBOTIC FOOT; SENSING UNIT; TACTILE SENSING; TACTILE SENSORS; THIN SHEET;

ANTHROPOMORPHIC ROBOTS; FLOORS; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; MAN MACHINE SYSTEMS; SENSORS; WALKING AIDS;

HUMAN ROBOT INTERACTION;

EID: 79960354280     PISSN: 02780046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIE.2009.2030217     Document Type: Article

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