A toolbox for supporting the design of large-scale capacitive tactile systems

IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 153-158

  Le, Thuy Hong Loan ^a   Maiolino, Perla ^a   Mastrogiovanni, Fulvio ^a   Cannata, Giorgio ^a   Schmitz, Alexander ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^b ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL SKIN; DESIGN PARAMETERS; DESIGN TOOL; DIELECTRIC THICKNESS; FUNCTIONAL REQUIREMENT; GENERIC ROBOTS; ROBOT SKIN; SPATIAL SENSITIVITY;

ANTHROPOMORPHIC ROBOTS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS;

MACHINE DESIGN;

EID: 84856327261     PISSN: 21640572     EISSN: 21640580     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/Humanoids.2011.6100866     Document Type: Conference Paper

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