New materials and advances in making electronic skin for interactive robots

Advanced Robotics

Volumn 29, Issue 21, 2015, Pages 1359-1373

  Yogeswaran, N ^a,b   Dang, W ^a,b   Navaraj, W T ^a   Shakthivel, D ^a   Khan, S ^b   Polat, E O ^a   Gupta, S ^a,b   Heidari, H ^a   Kaboli, M ^c   Lorenzelli, L ^b   Cheng, G ^c   Dahiya, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b FONDAZIONE BRUNO KESSLER   (Italy)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

electronic skin; novel materials; robotics; tactile sensing

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ROBOTS; FLEXIBLE ELECTRONICS; ROBOTICS; ROBOTS;

ELECTRONIC SKIN; NON-PLANAR SURFACES; NOVEL MATERIALS; RELIABLE OPERATION; ROBOTIC INTERACTION; STRETCHABLE ELECTRONICS; TACTILE SENSING; TRADITIONAL MATERIALS;

SUBSTRATES;

EID: 84946753046     PISSN: 01691864     EISSN: 15685535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01691864.2015.1095653     Document Type: Conference Paper

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