Abstract
Force transducers are required to transform a physical force into an electrical signal. Their uses in the Robotics field have traditionally been confined to specialized, custom-built applications and therefore are limited in number. The advent and development of adaptive control techniques, however, have increased the popularity of force and torque sensors which will allow the next generation of robots to interactively control the gripping action as well as the object movement during the programmed task.
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Further reading material
Transducers, Sensors and Detectors, R. G. Seippel, Reston Publishing Co. Inc., 1983.
Transducers and Interfacing, B. R. Bannister and D. G. Whitehead, Van Nostrand Reinhold (UK) Co. Ltd., 1986.
Robotics—An Introduction, D. McCloy and M. Harris, Open University Press, 1986.
Industrial Robots: Computer interfacing and control, W. E. Snyder, Prentice-Hall Inc., 1985.
Industrial Robots: Design, operation and application, T. W. Polet, Glentop Publishers Ltd., 1985.
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Ruocco, S.R. (1987). Force transducers. In: Robot sensors and transducers. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-6872-4_4
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