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Silicon Tactile Image Sensors

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Traditional and Non-Traditional Robotic Sensors

Part of the book series: NATO ASI Series ((NATO ASI F,volume 63))

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Tactile sensing is one of the three possible means through which a human being can perceive image information. Unlike the two others, visual and acoustic perception, tactile sensing requires physical contact with the objects to be perceived or recognized, the information being carried by dynamometric parameters such as force and torque.

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  1. Department of Electrical Engineering, Delft University of Technology, Mekelweg 4, 2628 CD, Delft, The Netherlands

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Regtien, P.P.L. (1990). Silicon Tactile Image Sensors. In: Henderson, T.C. (eds) Traditional and Non-Traditional Robotic Sensors. NATO ASI Series, vol 63. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-75984-0_9

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