Bionic tactile sensor for near-range search, localisation and material classification

Informatik aktuell

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 240-246

  Dürr, Volker ^a,b   Krause, André F ^a   Neitzel, Matthias ^c   Lange, Oliver ^c   Reimann, Bert ^c  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^c FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR FACTORY OPERATION AND AUTOMATION IFF   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; OBJECT RECOGNITION;

BIONIC SENSORS; CONTACT EVENT; DAMPING TIME CONSTANT; FREQUENCY SPECTRA; INSECT ANTENNAE; MATERIAL CLASSIFICATION; TACTILE SENSORS; VIBRATION SIGNAL;

BIONICS;

EID: 84882950449     PISSN: 1431472X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-74764-2_37     Document Type: Conference Paper

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