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PurbrickJA, ‘A force transducer employing conductive silicone rubber’ 1st Robot Vision and Sensory Controls IFS (Conf) Ltd, Stratford, UK (April 1981). Briot M, ‘The utilization of an “artificial skin” sensor for the identification of solid objects’ Proc. 9th Int. Symp. on Industrial Robots 529–547, Washington, USA (March 1979) Larcombe MHE, ‘Carbon fibre tactile sensors,’ 1st Robot Vision and Sensory Controls IFS (Conf) Ltd, Stratford, UK (April 1981). Raibert MH and Tanner JE, ‘A VLSI tactile array sensor.’ Proc. 12th Int. Symp. on Industrial Robots Paris, France (June 1982). Robertson BE and Walkden AJ, ‘Tactile sensor system for robotics,’ 3rd Robot Vision and Sensory Controls IFS (Conf) Ltd, Cambridge (USA) (November 1983). Davies JBC, ‘Carbon fibre sensors’ 4th Robot Vision and Sensory Controls IFS (Conf) Ltd, 295–301, London, UK (October 1984).
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RingwallCGCaseAW, ‘Tactile sensor’ United States Patent 4, 306, 148, (Dec 1981). Rebman J and Morris KA, ‘Tactile sensor with electrooptical transduction’ 3rd Robot Vision and Sensory Controls IFS (Conf) Ltd, 341–347, Cambridge (Nov 1983). Crosnier, JJ, ‘Grasping systems with tactile sense using optical fibres’ Decade of Robotics: 1973–1984 167–175, IFS Special Publication, 1983. Mott DH, Lee MH and Nicholls HR, ‘An experimental very high resolution tactile sensor’ 4th Robot Vision and Sensory Controls IFS (Conf) Ltd, London, UK (October 1984). Tanie K, Komoriya K, Kaneko M and Tachi S, ‘A high resolution tactile sensor’ 4th Robot Vision and Sensory Controls IFS (Conf) Ltd, UK (October 1984).
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LuoRCTsaiWHLinJC, ‘Object recognition with combined tactile and visual information’4th Robot Vision and Sensory ControlsIFS (Conf) Ltd, London, UK (Oct 1984). Useful general review papers: Harmon LD, ‘A sense of touch begins to gather momentum’ Sensor Review IFS (Publ) Ltd, April 1981. Nitzan D, ‘Assessment of robotic sensors’ 1st Robot Vision and Sensory Controls IFS (Conf) Ltd, Stratford, UK (April 1981). Pugh A, ‘Second generation robotics and robot vision’ Robotic technology, IEE Control Engineering Series 23, ed. Pugh A, 1–9, 1983.
