Robotic tactile sensing: Technologies and system

Robotic Tactile Sensing: Technologies and System

Volumn 9789400705791, Issue , 2014, Pages 1-245

  Dahiya, Ravinder S ^a   Valle, Maurizio ^b  

^a FONDAZIONE BRUNO KESSLER   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION PROGRAMS; FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTORS; ROBOTICS; ROBOTS; STUDENTS;

APPLIED MATERIALS; REAL-WORLD OBJECTS; ROBOTIC PLATFORMS; SEMICONDUCTOR FIELD-EFFECT TRANSISTORS; SPATIO-TEMPORAL RESOLUTION; TACTILE INFORMATION; TACTILE SENSING SYSTEM; TECHNOLOGIES AND SYSTEMS;

SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES;

EID: 84930887791     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-0579-1     Document Type: Book

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