Flexible fabric sensor toward a humanoid robot's skin: Fabrication, characterization, and perceptions

IEEE Sensors Journal

Volumn 13, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 4065-4080

  Ho, Van Anh ^a   Makikawa, Masaaki ^a   Hirai, Shinichi ^a  

^a RITSUMEIKAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Fabric sensor; localized displacement; slip detection; texture recognition; wavelet

Indexed keywords

FABRIC SENSORS; LOCALIZED DISPLACEMENT; SLIP DETECTION; TEXTURE RECOGNITION; WAVELET;

ANTHROPOMORPHIC ROBOTS; DISCRETE WAVELET TRANSFORMS; NEURAL NETWORKS; PILES; ROBOTICS; TEXTURES; YARN;

SENSORS;

EID: 84884125446     PISSN: 1530437X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSEN.2013.2272336     Document Type: Article

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