Towards a minimal architecture for a printable, modular, and robust sensing skin

IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 33-38

  Buchan, A ^a   Bachrach, J ^a   Fearing, R S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARBITRARY GEOMETRY; ARBITRARY TOPOLOGY; COMBINATIONAL LOGIC; DEVICE FAILURES; FLEXIBLE SUBSTRATE; LARGER NETWORKS; LOW-COMPLEXITY; MODULAR SENSORS; NETWORK FAILURE; NON-CONVEX SHAPES; PROOF OF CONCEPT; ROBOT BODY; ROBUST SENSING; SCALED COMPOSITES; SEMICONDUCTOR TECHNOLOGY; SENSING UNIT; SENSOR INFORMATIONS; SIMULATION DATA; SMART SKIN; SPANNING TREE; STATE COMPLEXITY; TRANSMISSION NOISE; WIRED NETWORKS;

BIOMIMETICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE MANUFACTURE; SENSORS; TOPOLOGY;

NETWORK ARCHITECTURE;

EID: 84872324252     PISSN: 21530858     EISSN: 21530866     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2012.6386210     Document Type: Conference Paper

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