Automated Tactile Sensing

identify device and system parameters and configurations and to match these as far as possible with applications. The term tactile sensing as used here means the continuous-variable sensing of forces in an array. Consequently, a distinction is made between this and simple contact or force sensing at a single point (and/or binary sensing). Tactile sensing refers to skinlike properties, with which areas of forcesensitive surfaces are capable of reporting graded signals and parallel patterns of touching. When reference is made to simpler contact sensing (at one or just a few points), whether binary or continuously variable, the term siinple touch will be used.

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