Enhancement of vibrotactile sensitivity: Effects of stationary boundary contacts

IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 3494-3500

  Sakurai, Tatsuma ^a   Konyo, Masashi ^a   Tadokoro, Satoshi ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DETECTION THRESHOLD; DYNAMIC IMPACTS; FINITE ELEMENT MODELS; HIGH FREQUENCY HF; LOW FREQUENCY; NORMAL CONDITION; PSYCHOPHYSICAL EXPERIMENTS; SENSITIVITY ENHANCEMENTS; STATIC AND DYNAMIC; TACTILE SENSATION; VIBRATION FREQUENCY; VIBROTACTILE;

COLOR PHOTOGRAPHY; EXPERIMENTS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MOBILE DEVICES; ROBOTICS; VIBRATION ANALYSIS;

INTELLIGENT ROBOTS;

EID: 84455172347     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2011.6048366     Document Type: Conference Paper

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