Directions toward effective utilization of tactile skin: A review

RS Dahiya, P Mittendorfer, M Valle… - IEEE Sensors …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A wide variety of tactile (touch) sensors exist today for robotics and related applications.
They make use of various transduction methods, smart materials and engineered structures …

Artificial skin and tactile sensing for socially interactive robots: A review

D Silvera-Tawil, D Rye, M Velonaki - Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 2015 - Elsevier
During social interaction humans extract important information from tactile stimuli that
enriches their understanding of the interaction. This process depends, however, not only on …

Towards the creation of tactile maps for robots and their use in robot contact motion control

S Denei, F Mastrogiovanni, G Cannata - Robotics and Autonomous …, 2015 - Elsevier
The recent availability of large-scale tactile systems for robots implies the design and
development of tactile representation frameworks able to inform tactile-based robot control …

A real-time data acquisition and processing framework for large-scale robot skin

S Youssefi, S Denei, F Mastrogiovanni… - Robotics and Autonomous …, 2015 - Elsevier
Large-scale tactile sensing applications in Robotics have become the focus of extensive
research activities in the past few years, specifically for humanoid platforms. Research …

Real-time reconstruction of contact shapes for large area robot skin

L Muscari, L Seminara… - … on Robotics and …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Tactile sensing is considered a key technology for implementing complex robot interaction
tasks. The contribution of this article is two-fold:(i) we propose a general-purpose algorithm …

Contact modelling and tactile data processing for robot skins

W Wasko, A Albini, P Maiolino, F Mastrogiovanni… - Sensors, 2019 - mdpi.com
Tactile sensing is a key enabling technology to develop complex behaviours for robots
interacting with humans or the environment. This paper discusses computational aspects …

The roboskin project: Challenges and results

A Billard, A Bonfiglio, G Cannata, P Cosseddu… - Romansy 19–Robot …, 2013 - Springer
The goal of the ROBOSKIN project is to develop and demonstrate a range of new robot
capabilities based on the tactile feedback provided by a robotic skin covering large areas of …

The DLR artificial skin step II: Scalability as a prerequisite for whole-body covers

MW Strohmayr, D Schneider - 2013 IEEE/RSJ International …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In human skin, the ability to spatially discriminate an individual indentation from two
simultaneous indentations is tailored to the need of the specific area of application on the …

A review of tactile sensing in e-skin, wearable device, robotic, and medical service

J Hu, J Back, H Liu - 2022 - IET
In order to better perceive and manipulate the surrounding environment, various tactile
sensing technologies have been developed over the last decades, taking inspiration from …

Skinware: A real-time middleware for acquisition of tactile data from large scale robotic skins

S Youssefi, S Denei, F Mastrogiovanni… - … on Robotics and …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Within the past decade, extensive research has been done on large-scale tactile sensing, as
a result of which, a large variety of robot skins have been developed. These robot skins are …