Safety of human‐robot physical interaction is enabled not only by suitable robot control
strategies but also by suitable sensing technologies. For example, if distributed tactile …

In this paper we exemplarily outline the application of a large scale tactile sensor to provide
tactile perception to a mobile robot. The tactile sensors used within this project 1 are …

In recent years, tactile sensing has become a key enabling technology to implement
complex tasks by using robotic systems. For example, the successful execution of robotic …

In robotics, tactile sensation is also important to perform manipulation, especially in recent
robotic research related to cooperative work between robots and human beings, where …

The authors have developed “haptic armor”, a whole-body haptic sensor that has an ability
to estimate contact position. Although it is developed for safety assurance of robots in human …

The distance between robots and users increasingly shrinks and with it the potential for
robots to inadvertently harm users increasingly grows. Robots need to detect ongoing haptic …

In several fields of robotics, tactile and force sensors represent a basic tool for achieving an
enhanced interaction with the environment. As a matter of fact, areas such as advanced …

Touch sensing is helpful and important for a robot to understand and have bidirectional
physical contact with its environment, particularly objects it interacts with. Sensors provide …

Abstract Design and realization of autonomous robotic platforms require crucial information
on their surroundings especially when robots should interact with the environment and …

Robots operating in unstructured environments must be capable of safely handling
unexpected collisions with objects existing in the surrounding area, possibly without …