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Hand Haptic Perception

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The Human Hand as an Inspiration for Robot Hand Development

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Haptic perception encompasses tactile feedback and kinesthetic feedback. The haptic experience of touching an object by hand conveys information to the human about the object’s material properties such as stiffness, texture, and weight and its shape properties such as size, orientation and curvature. In this chapter, we review how these properties are perceived through the sense of touch.

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This research was supported by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) of Canada.

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    Mahdi Tavakoli

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Tavakoli, M. (2014). Hand Haptic Perception. In: Balasubramanian, R., Santos, V. (eds) The Human Hand as an Inspiration for Robot Hand Development. Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics, vol 95. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-03017-3_9

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