Organizational Meeting

• Time = 10:00-11:00am on Thursdays
• Location = CDR Bldg. 560 lobby -- possibly changing to MERL (Bldg. 02-660, 418 Panama Mall) 2nd floor conference room for next week.
• CourseWork page set up -- Future readings will be posted here.

Present (click Printable view for copy & paste list):

curtsu@stanford.edu,
josho7@stanford.edu,
fahrland@stanford.edu,
aerojackson1@gmail.com,
avilac@stanford.edu,
sphan@stanford.edu,
kbark@stanford.edu,
noe.esparza@stanford.edu
genn@stanford.edu
kwaldron@stanford.edu
gunter.niemeyer@stanford.edu
cutkosky@stanford.edu
paul.nangeroni@stanford.edu
anant07@stanford.edu
shen07@stanford.edu

Schedule of Topics

1. 12 April: Curt Salisbury on physiology
   • 1983_J_V_tins_DIST.pdf: Johansson and Valbo 1983
   • Note: Profs. Cutkosky, Niemeyer and Waldron will all be out of town at ICRA07 this week.
2. 19 April: Samson on perception and psychophysics
   • HapticsMotorControl.pdf: Lederman and Klatzky 1997
3. charles on palpation for surgical applications
   • See Coursework for papers
4. karlin on classic tactile array
   • SolidMechanicsTactileSensing.pdf: Fearing and Howe, 1985
   • Tactile Sensing Mechanisms- International Journal of Robotics Research, Vol9 No3, June 1990: Fearing, pp3-23

1. noe on some more recent tactile sensing stuff -- Japanese paper? Gel force?

1. Josh Oechslin
   • haptics rehab, stroke...
2. Andrew Fahrland
   • tactile display (e.g. matrix, dynamic, electrotactile)

1. Genny Pang
   • braille, skin stretch (Hayward - McGill? )

1. Anant Vasudevan, Xiaoyang Shen
   • Colgate/Peshkin - Northwestern - cobots ==> subsequent developments

1. David Jackson, Paul Nangeroni
   • ? TBD.

other topics:

• Hong Tan (Purdue - vibration, saltation effect for orientation)

• O'Mally (Rice U.)

• texture sensing and display

-- MarkCutkosky - 05 Apr 2007