The robot's sense of touch: Some lessons from human taction

  • Authors:

  • William W. McMillan

  • Affiliations:

  • -

  • Venue:
  • CSC '84 Proceedings of the ACM 12th annual computer science conference on SIGCSE symposium
  • Year:
  • 1984

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Abstract

A consideration of the logical functioning of human taction may suggest methods for solving problems of automated taction. The features of the human tactile system that may be relevant include its spatial resolution, mechanical modification of stimuli, temporal and spatial inhibition, adaptation characteristics, and exploration strategies. Artificial tactile systems would be least likely to gain from lower-level, physiology- coupled features of human taction, but might be significantly advanced if higher-level transformations of sensory input were implemented.