TY - BOOK ID - 14303549 TI - Robotic tactile sensing : technologies and system AU - Dahiya, Ravinder S. AU - Valle, Maurizio. PY - 2012 SN - 9400705786 9400705794 128393583X 9400799632 PB - Dordrecht ; New York : Springer, DB - UniCat KW - Electronics. KW - Engineering. KW - Robotics. KW - Tactile sensors. KW - Tactile sensors KW - Robotics KW - Engineering KW - Sensation KW - Perception KW - Health Occupations KW - Artificial Intelligence KW - Electronics KW - Automation KW - Technology, Industry, and Agriculture KW - Disciplines and Occupations KW - Computing Methodologies KW - Technology KW - Psychophysiology KW - Physics KW - Nervous System Physiological Processes KW - Mental Processes KW - Natural Science Disciplines KW - Nervous System Physiological Phenomena KW - Psychological Phenomena and Processes KW - Technology, Industry, Agriculture KW - Information Science KW - Psychiatry and Psychology KW - Musculoskeletal and Neural Physiological Phenomena KW - Phenomena and Processes KW - Touch KW - Touch Perception KW - Biomedical Engineering KW - Mechanical Engineering KW - Health & Biological Sciences KW - Engineering & Applied Sciences KW - Mechanical Engineering - General KW - Industrial & Management Engineering KW - Robots, Industrial. KW - Industrial applications. KW - Force sensors KW - Touch sensors KW - Industrial robots KW - Electronic circuits. KW - Automation. KW - Mechatronics. KW - Microelectronics. KW - Biomedical engineering. KW - Robotics and Automation. KW - Electronics and Microelectronics, Instrumentation. KW - Electronic Circuits and Devices. KW - Biomedical Engineering. KW - Detectors KW - Automatic machinery KW - Robots KW - Biomedical Engineering and Bioengineering. KW - Clinical engineering KW - Medical engineering KW - Bioengineering KW - Biophysics KW - Medicine KW - Electrical engineering KW - Physical sciences KW - Electron-tube circuits KW - Electric circuits KW - Electron tubes KW - Microminiature electronic equipment KW - Microminiaturization (Electronics) KW - Microtechnology KW - Semiconductors KW - Miniature electronic equipment KW - Mechanical engineering KW - Microelectronics KW - Microelectromechanical systems KW - Automatic factories KW - Automatic production KW - Computer control KW - Engineering cybernetics KW - Factories KW - Industrial engineering KW - Mechanization KW - Assembly-line methods KW - Automatic control KW - CAD/CAM systems KW - Machine theory UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:14303549 AB - Future robots are expected to work closely and interact safely with real-world objects and humans alike. Sense of touch is important in this context, as it helps estimate properties such as shape, texture, hardness, material type and many more; provides action related information, such as slip detection; and helps carrying out actions such as rolling an object between fingers without dropping it. This book presents an in-depth description of the solutions available for gathering tactile data, obtaining aforementioned tactile information from the data and effectively using the same in various robotic tasks. Better integration of tactile sensors on a robot’s body is prerequisite for the effective utilization of tactile data. For this reason, the hardware, software and application related issues (and resulting trade-offs) that must be considered to make tactile sensing an effective component of robotic platforms are discussed in-depth.To this end, human touch sensing has also been explored. The design hints coming out of the investigations into human sense of touch can be useful in improving the effectiveness of tactile sensory modality in robotics and other machines.  The concept of semiconductor devices based sensors or solid-state sensorss is an interesting one, as it allows compact and fast tactile sensing systems with capabilities such as human-like spatio-temporal resolution. This book presents a comprehensive description of semiconductor devices based tactile sensing. In particular, novel Piezo Oxide Semiconductor Field Effect Transistor (POSFET) based approach for high resolution tactile sensing has been discussed in detail. Finally, the extension of semiconductors devices based sensors concept to large and flexile areas has been discussed for obtaining robotic or electronic skin. With its multidisciplinary scope, this book is suitable for graduate students and researchers coming from diverse areas such robotics (bio-robots, humanoids, rehabilitation etc.), applied materials, humans touch sensing, electronics, microsystems, and instrumentation. To better explain the concepts the text is supported by large number of figures. ER -