Interpretation of Social Touch on an Artificial Arm Covered with an EIT-based Sensitive Skin

International Journal of Social Robotics

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 489-505

  Silvera Tawil, David ^a   Rye, David ^b   Velonaki, Mari ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Artificial sensitive skin; Electrical impedance tomography; Human robot interaction (HRI); LogitBoost; Social robotics; Social touch; Supervised machine learning

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BOOSTING; AGRICULTURAL ROBOTS; ARTIFICIAL LIMBS; ARTIFICIAL ORGANS; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE MEASUREMENT; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE TOMOGRAPHY; SUPERVISED LEARNING;

ELECTRICAL IMPEDANCE TOMOGRAPHY; LOGITBOOST; ROBOT INTERACTIONS; SENSITIVE SKIN; SOCIAL ROBOTICS; SOCIAL TOUCH; SUPERVISED MACHINE LEARNING;

SOCIAL ROBOTS;

EID: 84918776919     PISSN: 18754791     EISSN: 18754805     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12369-013-0223-x     Document Type: Article

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