Active Touch Sensing

The mechanical hand of the future will roll a screw between its fingers and sense, by touch, which end is which. This paper describes a step toward such a manipulator ?? robot finger that is used to recognize small objects by touch. The device incorporates a novel imaging tactile sensor ?? arti...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hillis, William Daniel
Language:en_US
Published: 2004
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/6354