Cutaneous system as a tactile sensor.

Design and Construction of a New Capacitive Tactile Sensor for Measuring Normal Tactile Force

This paper presents the design, construction and testing of a new capacitive tactile sensor for measurement of normal tactile force. The operation of proposed sensor has been investigated in ASTABLE and MONOSTABLE circuits. According to the results of these circuits the deviation of ASTABLE circuit results is less than MONOSTABLE circuit results. In addition, the results obtained from ASTABLE c...

A tactile sensor system for a three-fingered robot manipulator

Tactile sensor systems are an essential prerequisite for the implementation of complex manipulation and exploration tasks using robots. Tactile exploration has not yet found its way into many laboratories, because most tactile sensors are technically demanding and expensive. The desire to perform real-time control and pattern recognition with tactile sensors led us to the design of a cost-effec...

Feel Like an Insect: A Bio-Inspired Tactile Sensor System

Insects use their antennae (feelers) as near range sensors for orientation, object localization and communication. This paper presents an approach for an active tactile sensor system. This includes a new type of hardware construction as well as a software implementation for interpreting the sensor readings. The discussed tactile sensor is able to detect an obstacle and its location in 3D space....

Adaptation of Cutaneous Tactile Receptors

The potassium content of the skin of Rana pipiens is found to be 132 m.g. per cent. This is roughly of the order of magnitude of the content of potassium in nerve. Analyses were also made of the skin for Na, Ca, Mg, Cl, S, and P.

Three-axis Tactile Sensor