This tutorial focuses on the sense of touch within the context of a fully active human
observer. It is intended for graduate students and researchers outside the discipline who …

This paper reviews tactual perception of material properties such as roughness, compliance,
coldness and friction. Psychophysical functions relating physical properties to perception are …

Human Hand Function is a multidisciplinary book that reviews the sensory and motor
aspects of normal hand function from both neurophysiological and behavioral perspectives …

Thermal displays have been developed to present thermal cues to the hand to facilitate
object recognition in virtual environments or in teleoperated robotic systems. This review …

We present ThermAirGlove (TAGlove), a pneumatic glove which provides thermal feedback
for users, to support the haptic experience of grabbing objects of different temperatures and …

In a forced-choice task, we asked human participants to discriminate by touch alone glass
plates from transparent polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) plastic plates. While the surfaces …

Some materials feel colder to the touch than others, and we can use this difference in
perceived coldness for material recognition. This review focuses on the mechanisms …

In this study, we achieved a noncontact tactile display that presents a pinpoint and
instantaneous cooling sensation on the skin surface with no devices directly in contact with …

This paper deals with the problem of fault diagnosis (FD) for a class of nonlinear systems.
The scheme is based on a discrete-time diagnostic observer that computes a prediction of …

In this paper, we demonstrate data-driven inference of mechanical properties of objects
using a tactile sensor array (skin) covering a robot's forearm. We focus on the mobility …