Multimodal tactile sensor

Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics

Volumn 95, Issue , 2014, Pages 405-405

  Wettels, Nicholas ^a,b   Fishel, Jeremy A ^a,b   Loeb, Gerald E ^a,b  

^a SynTouch LLC   (United States)

^b University of Southern California   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomimetics; Dexterous manipulation; Force and tactile sensing; Texture; Thermal sensing

Indexed keywords

BIOMIMETICS; HEAT TRANSFER; TEXTURES;

DEXTEROUS MANIPULATION; MATERIAL COMPOSITIONS; MECHATRONIC SYSTEMS; RATE OF HEAT TRANSFER; SENSING MODALITIES; SENSORY MODALITY; TACTILE SENSING; THERMAL SENSING;

SIGNAL PROCESSING;

EID: 84926685419     PISSN: 16107438     EISSN: 1610742X     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-03017-3_19     Document Type: Chapter

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