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An Overview of Visual and Tactile Sensor Technology

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This contribution included in the Proceedings of the Workshop on Highly Redundant Sensing in Robotic Systems gives a concise summary of the sensors which have been researched and used in robotics over the past two decades. One of the primary functions of the paper is to focus the mind on the crucially important issues of sensors for robotics which represent one of the most important enabling technologies for the subject as a whole. The references included at the end of the paper allow the reader to research the contents more completely than is possible in just a few pages.

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  1. Department of Electronic Engineering, University of Hull, Hull, HU6 7RX, England

    Alan Pugh

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  1. Center for Information Research, University of Florida, 32611, Gainesville, Florida, USA

    Julius T. Tou

  2. Division of Engineering Cybernetics, Norwegian Institute of Technology, University of Trondheim, Trondheim, Norway

    Jens G. Balchen

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Pugh, A. (1990). An Overview of Visual and Tactile Sensor Technology. In: Tou, J.T., Balchen, J.G. (eds) Highly Redundant Sensing in Robotic Systems. NATO ASI Series, vol 58. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-84051-7_2

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