Skin Sensor Reading

• Ron Fearing's Thesis (Terman Library: #3781 1988 F)
• Dean Chang's Thesis (Terman Library: #3781 1996 C)
• Jae Son's Thesis (Chapters 2&3 primarily)

Sensor Reviews

• Cutkosky, Howe, Provancher - Springer Handbook of Robotics - ch19.pdf
• Howe - 2004 - Tactile Sensing and Control of Robotic Manipulation
• Howe, Cutkosky - 1993 - Dynamic Tactile Sensing Perception of Fine Surface Features with Stress Rate Sensing
• Lumelsky, Shur, Wagner- 2001 - Sensitive Skin
• Chouvardas, Miliou, Hatalis - 2005 - Tactile Displays -- a short overview and recent developments
• Regtien - 1992 - Tactile Imaging.pdf
• Lee, Nicholls - 1998 - Tactile sensing for mechatronics%u2014a state of the art survey

Complete Solutions

• Hakozaki, Nakamura, Shinoda - 1999 - Telemetric Artificial Skin for Soft Robot
  • Radio-powered embedded IC%u2019s - Individual sensor chips embedded in an elastic substrate
• Um, Stankovic, Giles, Hammond, Lumelsky - 1998 - A Modularized Sensitive Skin for Motion Planning in Uncertain Environments
• Lifton, Broxton, Paradiso - 2003 - Distributed Sensor Networks as Sensate Skin
• Paradiso, Lifton, Broxton - 2004 - Sensate media %u2014 multimodal electronic skins as dense sensor networks
• Stiehl, Breazeal - 2006 - A Sensitive Skin for Robotic Companions Featuring Temperature Force and Electric Field Sensors
• Ohmura, Kuniyoshi, Nagakubo - 2006 - Conformable and Scalable Tactile Sensor Skin for Curved Surfaces
• Renkimoto - 2002 - Smart Skin - An Infrastructure for Freehand Manipulation on Interactive Surfaces.pdf

Specific Challenges

Networking

• Broxton, Lifton, Paradiso - 2005 - Localizing a Sensor Network via Collaborative Processing of Global Stimuli
• Chigusa, Makino, Shinoda - 2006 - Large Area Tactile Sensor based on Proximity Connection of Tactile Sensing Elements
• Makino, Minamizawa, Shinoda - 2005 - Two Dimensional Communication Technology for Networked Sensing System
• Makino, Okada, Shinoda - 2006 - Measuring Myoelectric Potential Patterns Based on Two-Dimensional Signal Transmission Technology

Organic IC sensor arrays

• Someya, Kato, Sekitani, Iba, Noguchi, Murase, Kawaguchi, Sakurai - 2005 - Conformable, flexible, large-area networks of pressure and thermal sensors with organic transistor active matrixes
• Someya, Kawaguchi, Sakurai - 2004 - Cut-and-Paste Organic FET Customized ICs for Application to Artificial Skin

MEMS Devices

• Engel, Chen, Fan, Liu - 2005 - Polymer micromachined multimodal tactile sensors
• Engel, Chen, Liu - 2003 - Development of polyimide flexible tactile sensor skin

Quantum Tunneling Composites

• Bloor, Donnelly, Hands, Laughlin, Lussey - A metal%u2013polymer composite with unusual properties

Conductive Polymers/Foams

• Brady, Carson, O%u2019Gorman, Moyna, Diamond - 2007 - Body Sensor Network based on Soft Polymer Sensors and Wireless Communications
• Brady, Diamond, Lau - 2005 - Inherently conducting polymer modified polyurethane smart foam for pressure sensing
• Kerpa, Weiss, Worn - 2003 - Development of a Flexible Tactile Sensor System for a Humanoid Robot
• Yuji, Shida - 2000 - A New Multifunctional Tactile Sensing Technique by Selective Data Processing
• Sekitani, Noguchi, Hata, Fukushima, Aida, Someya - 2008 - A Rubberlike Stretchable Active Matrix Using Eleastic Conductors

Optical Sensors

• Ohka, Mitsuya, Higashioka - 2005 - An Experimental Optical Three-axis Tactile Sensor for Micro-Robots
• Schneiter Sheridan - 1984 - An Optical Tactile Sensor for Manipulators
• Yamada, Goto, Nakajima, Koshida, Shinoda - 2002 - A Sensor Skin Using Wire-Free Tactile Sensing Elements Based on Optical Connection
• Okada, Rembold - 1991 - Proximity Sensor Using a Spiral-Shaped Light-Emitting Mechanism
• Han - 2005 - Low - Cost Multi-Touch Sensing through Frustrated Total Internal Reflection.pdf:

Sensor Information Processing

• Okamura, Turner, Cutkosky - 1997 - Haptic Exploration of Objects with Rolling and Sliding
• Worth, Spencer - 1992 - A Neural Network for Tactile Sensing The Hertzian Contact Problem

Uncategorized

• McElligott? , Dillon, Leydon, Richardson, Fernström, Paradiso - 2002 - 'ForSe FIElds' %u2013 Force Sensors for Interactive Environments
• Pawluk, Son, Wellman, Peine, Howe - 1996 - A Distributed Pressure Sensor For Biomechanical Measurements
• Riul, Soto, Mello, Bone, Taylor, Mattoso - 2003 - An electronic tongue using polypyrrole and polyaniline
• Xu, Tai, Huang, Ho - 2003 - IC-Integrated Flexible Shear-Stress Sensor Skin
• Yamada, Maeno, Yamada - 2001 - Artificial Finger Skin having Ridges and Distributed Tactile Sensors used for Grasp Force Control

Scanned from Mark's Optical Folder

• Agin - 1985 - Calibration and Use of a Light Stripe Range Sensor Mounted on the Hand of a Robot
• Anderson, Gillard, Huang - 1983 - Application of laser interferometry to robotics
• Birk, Kelley, Wilson - 1978 - Acquiring Workpieces--Three Approaches Using Vision
• Bizon, Calfo - Noncontact Strain Measurement
• Catros, Dore, Espiau, Parent, Yclon - 1978 - Automatic Grasping Using Infrared Sensors
• Donath, Leu - 1985 - Robotics and Manufacturing Automation
• Espiau, Catros - 1980 - Use of Optical Reflectance Sensors in Robotics Applications
• Howe, Kychakoff - 1986 - Fiberoptic Inverse Square Displacement Sensor
• Kanade, Takeo - 1983 - An Optical Proximity Sensor for Measuring Surface Position and Orientation for Robot Manipulation
• Soroka - 1984 - Debugging Robot Programs with a Simulator
• Thompson - 1979 - Introduction to Robot Vision

Scanned from Mark's Tactile Arrays Folder

• Collins - 2004 - Next Stretch for Plastic Electronics:
• Engel, Chen, Wang, Fan, Liu, Jones - 2003 - Technology Development of Integrated Multi-modal and Flexible Tactile Skin for Robotics Applications
• Howe - 1994 - Tactile Sensing and Control of Robotic Manipulationf
• Howe, Cutkosky - 1990 - Touch Sensing for Robotic Manipulation and Recognition
• Kolesar, Dyson - 1995 - Object Imaging with a Piezoelectric Robotic Tactile Sensor
• Lee - 2000 - Tactile Sensing -- New Directions, New Challenges
• Nicholls - 1992 - Advanced Tactile Sensing for Robots
• Stauffer - Progress in Tactile Sensor Development