A soft, amorphous skin that can sense and localize textures

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 1844-1851

  Hughes, Dana ^a   Correll, Nikolaus ^a  

^a University of Colorado at Boulder   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; SENSOR NODES;

COMPUTING ELEMENT; FREQUENCY DOMAINS; HUMAN SKIN; LOGISTIC REGRESSIONS; LOW-BANDWIDTH; NETWORKED SENSORS; TEXTURE CLASSIFICATION; VIBRATION SIGNAL;

PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

EID: 84929224740     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICRA.2014.6907101     Document Type: Conference Paper

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