Feel Like an Insect: A Bio-Inspired Tactile Sensor System
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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. Furthermore the material properties of the obstacles are classified by use of neural networks.
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