Artificial skin ridges enhance local tactile shape discrimination

Sensors

Volumn 11, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 8626-8642

  Salehi, Saba ^a   Cabibihan, John John ^a   Sam, Shuzhi Ge ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Curvature discrimination; Fingerprints; Local shape; Machine learning; Prosthetic hand; Ridged skin cover; Robotic hand; Support vector machines; Tactile sensing

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; BAYES THEOREM; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; SKIN; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE; TOUCH;

ALGORITHMS; BAYES THEOREM; HUMANS; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); SKIN; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES; TOUCH;

EID: 80053182615     PISSN: 14248220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/s110908626     Document Type: Article

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