Artificial skin and tactile sensing for socially interactive robots: A review

Robotics and Autonomous Systems

Volumn 63, Issue P3, 2015, Pages 230-243

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Human robot interaction; Sensitive skin; Social robotics; Tactile communication; Tactile sensing

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL ORGANS; MAN MACHINE SYSTEMS; ROBOT LEARNING; ROBOTICS;

ARTIFICIAL SKIN; INTERACTIVE ROBOT; SENSITIVE SKIN; SOCIAL INTERACTIONS; SOCIAL ROBOTICS; STATE OF THE ART; TACTILE COMMUNICATIONS; TACTILE SENSING;

HUMAN ROBOT INTERACTION;

EID: 84919486382     PISSN: 09218890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.robot.2014.09.008     Document Type: Article

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