A middleware for whole body skin-like tactile systems

IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 159-164

  Youssefi, Shahbaz ^a   Denei, Simone ^a   Mastrogiovanni, Fulvio ^a   Cannata, Giorgio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL SKIN; FUNCTIONAL REQUIREMENT; HUMANOID ROBOT; ROBOT HARDWARE; TACTILE INFORMATION; TECHNICAL SOLUTIONS; WHOLE BODY;

ANTHROPOMORPHIC ROBOTS; MIDDLEWARE; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE;

MACHINE DESIGN;

EID: 84856355332     PISSN: 21640572     EISSN: 21640580     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/Humanoids.2011.6100867     Document Type: Conference Paper

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