Effects of the artificial skin's thickness on the subsurface pressure profiles of flat, curved, and braille surfaces

IEEE Sensors Journal

Volumn 14, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 2118-2128

  Cabibihan, John John ^a   Chauhan, Sushil Singh ^b   Suresh, Shruthi ^b  

^a Qatar University   (Qatar)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Artificial skins; finite element analysis; robotic sensing; tactile discrimination; tactile sensing

Indexed keywords

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; PRESSURE; ROBOTICS; SENSORS;

ARTIFICIAL SKIN; EMBEDDED TACTILE SENSORS; HYPERELASTIC BEHAVIOR; NON-PLANAR SURFACES; ROBOTIC SENSING; SUBSURFACE STRUCTURES; TACTILE DISCRIMINATION; TACTILE SENSING;

ARTIFICIAL ORGANS;

EID: 84902155570     PISSN: 1530437X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSEN.2013.2295296     Document Type: Article

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