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Tactile sensing of 3-dimensional surface features

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 August 2017

R. Andrew Russell
R. Andrew Russell*
Affiliation:
Department of Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria 3168, (Australia)
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Summary

Robots will require some form of proximity sensing in order to perform many delicate exploration, assembly and manipulation tasks. This paper describes a novel articulated tactile probe which can locate and accurately measure the 3-dimensional surface contours of small objects. Although lacking the speed of data acquisition possible with vision and other non-contact sensors, the resulting data is easily processed to give useful information about an object.

Keywords

Tactile sensingSurface contoursSmall objectsThree-dimensional

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Research Article
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Robotica , Volume 8 , Issue 2 , April 1990 , pp. 111 - 115
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1990

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