This list is provided as a service to the community, to help anyone starting in this field. If your publication is missing in this list, please email me at philippe.giguere@ift.ulaval.ca and I will then gladly add it. Please note that there are some conferences/years missing: this is work in progress :).

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Some of our work in tactile robotics:

1.	Autonomous Tactile Perception: a Combined Improved Sensing and Bayesian Nonparametric Approach P Dallaire, P Giguere, D Émond, B Chaib-draa Robotics and Autonomous Systems, January 2014.	link
2.	Artificial Tactile Perception for Surface Identification using a Triple Axis Accelerometer Probe Patrick Dallaire, Daniel Emond, Philippe Giguere and Brahim Chaib-Draa ROSE 2011	pdf	dataset features
3.	A Simple Tactile Probe for Surface Identification by Mobile Robots Philippe Giguere and Gregory Dudek IEEE Transactions on Robotics, June 2011.	pdf
4.	Surface Identification Using Simple Contact Dynamics for Mobile Robots Philippe Giguere and Gregory Dudek. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Kobe, Japan, May 12-17, 2009.	pdf	dataset
5.	Clustering sensor data for autonomous terrain identification using time-dependency Philippe Giguere and Gregory Dudek. In Autonomous Robots, March 2009, pp. 171-186.	pdf

Other work in tactile robotics or surface identification, ordered by year of publication.

NEW	Design and Manufacturing of Soft Tactile Skin using an Embedded Ionic Liquid and Tomographic Imaging Jean-Baptiste Chossat, Hee-Sup Shin, Yong-Lae Park and Vincent Duchaine Journal of Mechanisms and Robotics, 2014.
NEW	Humanoids Learn Object Properties From Robust Tactile Feature Descriptors via Multi-Modal Artificial Skin Mohsen Kaboli Philipp Mittendorfer Vincent Hugel and Gordon Cheng IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots, 2014.
NEW	Bayesian Action&Perception: Representing the World in the Brain Loeb, Gerald E., and Jeremy A. Fishel Frontiers in Neuroscience 8 (2014): 341. PMC. Web. 18 Nov. 2014.
NEW	Touch attention Bayesian models for robotic active haptic exploration of heterogeneous surfaces Ricardo Martins, Jo˜ao Filipe Ferreira IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2014.
NEW	6D Proximity Servoing for Preshaping and Haptic Exploration Using Capacitive Tactile Proximity Sensors Stefan Escaida Navarro, Martin Schonert, Björn Hein and Heinz Wörn IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2014.
NEW	A Real-Time Distributed Architecture for Large-Scale Tactile Sensing Emanuele Baglini, Shahbaz Youssefi, Fulvio Mastrogiovanni and Giorgio Cannata IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2014.
NEW	Object Manifold Learning with Action Features for Active Tactile Object Recognition Daisuke Tanaka, Takamitsu Matsubara, Kentaro Ichien, and Kenji Sugimoto IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2014.
NEW	3D Spatial Self-organization of a Modular Artificial Skin Philipp Mittendorfer, Emmanuel Dean and Gordon Cheng IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2014.
NEW	Learning of Grasp Adaptation through Experience and Tactile Sensing Miao Li, Yasemin Bekiroglu, Danica Kragic and Aude Billard IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2014.
NEW	What’s in the Container? Classifying Object Contents from Vision and Touch Püren Güler, Yasemin Bekiroglu, Xavi Gratal, Karl Pauwels and Danica Kragic IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2014.
NEW	Localization and Manipulation of Small Parts Using GelSight Tactile Sensing Rui Li, Robert Platt Jr., Wenzhen Yuan, Andreas ten Pas, Nathan Roscup, Mandayam A. Srinivasan, Edward Adelson IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2014.
NEW	Exploiting global force torque measurements for local compliance estimation in tactile arrays Carlo Ciliberto, Luca Fiorio, Marco Maggiali, Lorenzo Natale, Lorenzo Rosasco, Giorgio Metta, Giulio Sandini and Francesco Nori IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2014.
NEW	Active Gathering of Frictional Properties from Objects Carlos Rosales, Arash Ajoudani, Marco Gabiccini and Antonio Bicchi IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2014.
NEW	Contact Force Decomposition Using Tactile Information for Haptic Augmented Reality Hyoungkyun Kim, Seungmoon Choi, and Wan Kyun Chung IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2014.
NEW	Three-dimensional object reconstruction of symmetric objects by fusing visual and tactile sensing Jarmo Ilonen, Jeannette Bohg, Ville Kyrki International Journal of Robotics Research, Feb 33(2), 2014.
NEW	Learning Robot Tactile Sensing for Object Manipulation Yevgen Chebotar, Oliver Kroemer and Jan Peters IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2014.
*	Effects of distance and direction on tangential tactile perception of the index finger pad Greg Placencia, Mansour Rahimi and Behrokh Khoshnevis Robotica 31(5) August 2013.
*	Reaching in Clutter with Whole-Arm Tactile Sensing Advait Jain, Marc Daniel Killpack, Aaron Edsinger and Charles C. Kemp The International Journal of Robotics Research, 2013.
*	Interpretation of the modality of touch on an artificial arm covered with an EIT-based sensitive skin David Silvera Tawil, David Rye, and Mari Velonaki The International Journal of Robotics Research 2012;31 pp. 1627-1641
*	Online Learning of Concepts and Words Using Multimodal LDA and Hierarchical Pitman-Yor Language Model Takaya Araki, Tomoaki Nakamura, Takayuki Nagai, Shogo Nagasaka, Tadahiro Taniguchi, Naoto Iwahashi IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2012.
*	3D Surface Reconstruction for Robotic Body Parts with Artificial Skins Philipp Mittendorfer and Gordon Cheng IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2012.
*	Rapid-Manufacturable Hair Sensor Array for Legged Millirobots Jaakko T. Karras, Duncan W. Haldane and Ronald S. Fearing IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2012.
*	Composite Force Sensing Foot Utilizing Volumetric Displacement of a Hyperelastic Polymer Meng Yee (Michael) Chuah, Matthew Estrada, and Sangbae Kim IROS 2012.
*	A locally adaptive online grasp control strategy using array sensor force feedback Mike Stachowsky, Medhat Moussa, Hussein Abdullah IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2012.
*	Improving robot manipulation through fingertip perception Alexis Maldonado, Humberto Alvarez, Michael Beetz IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2012.
*	Towards a Minimal Architecture for a Printable, Modular, and Robust Sensing Skin A. Buchan, J. Bachrach, and R.S. Fearing IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2012.
*	Whiskered texture classification with uncertain contact pose geometry Mathew H. Evans, Martin J. Pearson, Nathan F. Lepora, Tony J. Prescott and Charles W. Fox IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2012.
*	Embodied hyperacuity from Bayesian perception: Shape and position discrimination with an iCub fingertip sensor Nathan F. Lepora, Uriel Martinez-Hernandez, Hector Barron-Gonzalez, Mat Evans, Giorgio Metta, Tony J. Prescott IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2012.
*	Experimental Investigation of Surface Identification Ability of a Low-Profile Fabric Tactile Sensor Van Anh Ho, Takahiro Araki, Masaaki Makikawa, and Shinichi Hirai IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2012.
*	Haptic Classification and Recognition of Objects Using a Tactile Sensing Forearm Tapomayukh Bhattacharjee, James M. Rehg, and Charles C. Kemp IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2012.
*	Online Spatio-Temporal Gaussian Process Experts with Application to Tactile Classification Harold Soh, Yanyu Su, Yiannis Demiris IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2012.
*	Scalable Robotic-Hand Control System Based on a Hierarchical Multi-Processor Architecture Adopting a Large Number of Tactile Sensors Kiyoto Ito, Makoto Saen, and Kenichi Osada IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) , 2012.
*	Parallel Force-Position Control Mediated by Tactile Maps for Robot Contact Tasks Simone Denei, Fulvio Mastrogiovanni and Giorgio Cannata IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2012.
*	Soft Tactile Sensor Arrays for Micromanipulation Frank L. Hammond III,Rebecca K. Kramer, Qian Wan, Robert D. Howe, Robert J. Wood IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2012.
*	Bayesian exploration for intelligent identification of textures J. A. Fishel, G. E. Loeb Frontiers in Neurorobotics 6 (4), 2012.
*	Interpretation of the Modality of Touch on an Artificial Arm Covered with an EIT-based Sensitive Skin David Silvera Tawil, David Rye, and Mari Velonaki International Journal of Robotics Research (IJRR), September 2012.
*	Tactile discrimination using active whisker sensors. J.C.W. Sullivan, B. Mitchinson, M. J. Pearson, M. H. Evans, N. F. Lepora, C. W. Fox, C. Melhuish, and T. J. Prescott. IEEE Sensors, Issue 99, 2011.
*	IEEE Transactions on Robotics, Special Edition on Robotic Sense of Touch, 2011.
*	A capacitive tactile sensor array for surface texture discrimination H.B. Muhammad, C. Recchiuto, C.M. Oddo, L. Beccai, C.J. Anthony, M.J. Adams, M.C. Carrozza, M.C.L. Ward Microelectronic Engineering, 88 (8), pp. 1811-1813, 2011.
*	Tactile sensing for mobile manipulation S. Chitta, J. Sturm, M. Piccoli, W. Burgard, IEEE Transactions on Robotics 27 (3) pp. 558-568, 2011.
*	Vibrotactile Recognition and Categorization of Surfaces by a Humanoid Robot Sinapov, J.; Sukhoy, V.; Sahai, R.; Stoytchev, A.; IEEE Transactions on Robotics, pp. 488-497, 2011.
*	Majority voting: Material classification by tactile sensing using surface texture N. Jamali, C. Sammut IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 27 (3), pp. 508-521, 2011.
*	Learning Dynamic Tactile Sensing With Robust Vision-Based Training Kroemer, O. and Lampert, Christoph H. and Peters, J. IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 27 (3), pp. 545-557, 2011.
*	Roughness Encoding for Discrimination of Surfaces in Artificial Active-Touch Oddo, C.M. and Controzzi, M. and Beccai, L. and Cipriani, C. and Carrozza, M.C. IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 27 (3), pp. 522-533, 2011.
NEW	Characterization of the electrical resistance of carbon-black-filled silicone: Application to a flexible and stretchable robot skin MA Lacasse, V Duchaine, C Gosselin IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), pp.4842-4848, 2010.
*	Material classification by tactile sensing using surface textures Jamali, N.; Sammut, C.; IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), pp.2336-2341,2010
*	Towards automated self-calibration of robot skin Cannata, G.; Denei, S.; Mastrogiovanni, F.; IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), pp.4849-4854, 2010.
*	An Inertia-Based Surface Identification System Windau, J.; Wei-Min Shen; IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), pp.2330-2335, 2010.
*	A robust, low-cost and low-noise artificial skin for human-friendly robots Ulmen, J.; Cutkosky, M.; IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), pp.4836-4841, 2010.
*	Haptic terrain classification for legged robots Hoepflinger, M.A.; Remy, C.D.; Hutter, M.; Spinello, L.; Siegwart,R.; IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), pp.2828-2833, 2010.
*	Automatic filter design for synthesis of haptic textures from recorded acceleration data J. Romano, T. Yoshioka, and K. Kuchenbecker IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), pp. 1815-1821, 2010.
*	A magnetic type tactile sensor by GMR elements and inductors Goka, M.; Nakamoto, H.; Takenawa, S.; IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), pp.885-890, 18-22 Oct. 2010
*	The DLR touch sensor I: A flexible tactile sensor for robotic hands based on a crossed-wire approach Strohmayr, M.W.; Saal, H.P.; Potdar, A.H.; van der Smagt, P.; IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), pp.897-903, 18-22 Oct. 2010
*	Artificial ridged skin for slippage speed detection in prosthetic hand applications Damian, D.D.; Martinez, H.; Dermitzakis, K.; Hernandez-Arieta, A.; Pfeifer, R.; IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), pp.904-909, 18-22 Oct. 2010
*	Acquisition of tactile information by vision-based tactile sensor for dexterous handling of robot hands Ito, Y.; Kim, Y.; Nagai, C.; Obinata, G.; IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), pp.891-896, 18-22 Oct. 2010
*	Tactile sensor array using prismatic-tip optical fibers for dexterous robotic hands Ataollahi, A.; Polygerinos, P.; Puangmali, P.; Seneviratne, L.D.; Althoefer, K.; IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), pp.910-915, 18-22 Oct. 2010
*	A tactile sensor for the fingertips of the humanoid robot iCub Schmitz, A.; Maggiali, M.; Natale, L.; Bonino, B.; Metta, G.; IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), pp.2212-2217, 18-22 Oct. 2010
	Dimensional reduction of high-frequency accelerations for haptic rendering in Haptics: Generating and Perceiving Tangible Sensations N. Landin, J. Romano, W. McMahan, and K. Kuchenbecker Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, vol. 6192, pp. 79–86, 2010.
*	Modular skin for humanoid robot systems G. Cannata, R. Dahiya, M. Maggiali, F. Mastrogiovanni, G. Metta, M. Valle 4th Int. Conf. on Cognitive Systems, 2010.
*	Coding and use of tactile signals from the fingertips in object manipulation tasks R. Johansson, J. Flanagan, Nat Rev Neuroscience 10 (5), pp. 345-359, 2009.
*	Trajectory generation of robotic fingers based on tri-axial tactile data for cap screwing task Ohka, M.; Morisawa, N.; Yussof, H.B.; International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), pp.883-888, 12-17 May 2009.
*	Whisker-object contact speed affects radial distance estimation. M. H. Evans; C. W. Fox; N.F. Lepora; M. J. Pearson; T. J. Prescott. IEEE ROBIO, 2010.
*	Tactile texture recognition with a 3-axial force MEMS integrated artificial finger F. de Boissieu, C. Godin, B. Guilhamat, D. David, C. Serviere, D. Baudois Robotics: Science and Systems, 2009.
*	Development of high-sensitivity slip sensor using special characteristics of pressure conductive rubber Teshigawara, S.; Tadakuma, K.; Ming, A.; Ishikawa, M.; Shimojo, M.; IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), pp.3289-3294, 12-17 May 2009.
*	A magnetic type tactile sensor using a two-dimensional array of inductors Takenawa, S.; IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), pp.3295-3300, 12-17 May 2009.
*	Analysis of sliding of a soft fingertip embedded with a novel micro force/moment sensor: Simulation, experiment, and application Van Anh Ho; Dzung Viet Dao; Sugiyama, S.; Hirai, S.; IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), pp.889-894, 12-17 May 2009
*	A flexible robot skin for safe physical human robot interaction Duchaine, Vincent; Lauzier, Nicolas; Baril, Mathieu; Lacasse, Marc-Antoine; Gosselin, Clement; IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), pp.3676-3681, 12-17 May 2009
*	Tactile sensing for an anthropomorphic robotic hand: Hardware and signal processing Goger, D.; Gorges, N.; Worn, H. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), pp.895-901, 12-17 May 2009
*	Object identification with tactile sensors using bag-of-features Schneider, A.; Sturm, J.; Stachniss, C.; Reisert, M.; Burkhardt, H.; Burgard, W.; IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), pp.243-248, 10-15 Oct. 2009
*	Determining an object's shape with a blind tactile manipulator Devereux, D.; Nutter, P.; Richardson, R.; IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), pp.4745-4750, 10-15 Oct. 2009
*	Large area smart tactile sensor for rescue robot Vidal-Verdu, F.; Barquero, M.J.; Seron, J.; Garcia-Cerezo, A. IEEE International Workshop on Robotic and Sensors Environments (ROSE), 2009.
*	Tactile robotic mapping of unknown surfaces: an application to oil well exploration Mazzini, F.; Kettler, D.; Dubowsky, S.; Guerrero, J. IEEE International Workshop on Robotic and Sensors Environments (ROSE), 2009.
*	Continuous tactile perception for vibrotactile displays Rahal, L.; Jongeun Cha; El Saddik, A. IEEE International Workshop on Robotic and Sensors Environments (ROSE), 2009.
*	Contact type dependency of texture classification in a whiskered mobile robot C. W. Fox; B. Mitchinson; M. J. Pearson; A. G. Pipe; T. J. Prescott. Autonomous Robots, 2009.
*	Effect of fingerprints orientation on skin vibrations during tactile exploration of textured surfaces Alexis Prevost, Julien Scheibert, and Georges Debregeas, COMMUN INTEGR BIOL 2, 422, 2009.
*	Experimental validation of a tactile sensor model for a robotic hand Yahud S, Dokos S, Morley JW, Lovell NH. IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc, 2009.
*	Factors Involved in Tactile Texture Perception through Probes Takashi Yoshioka, Julia Zhou Adv. Robotics, vol. 23 pp. 747-766, 2009.
*	Active exploration and keypoint clustering for object recognition Gert Kootstra, Jelmer Ypma and Bart de Boer IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2008.
*	A decision method for the placement of tactile sensors for manipulation task recognition Matsuo, K.; Murakami, K.; Hasegawa, T.; Kurazume, R.; IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), pp.1641-1646, 19-23 May 2008
*	Grasping force control of multi-fingered robot hand based on slip detection using tactile sensor Gunji, D.; Mizoguchi, Y.; Teshigawara, S.; Aiguo Ming; Namiki, A.; Ishikawaand, M.; Shimojo, M.; IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), pp.2605-2610, 19-23 May 2008
*	A robotic finger equipped with an optical three-axis tactile sensor Ohka, M.; Morisawa, N.; Suzuki, H.; Takata, J.; Koboyashi, H.; Yussof, H.B.; IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), pp.3425-3430, 19-23 May 2008
*	Fingertip force control with embedded fiber Bragg grating sensors Yong-Lae Park; Seok Chang Ryu; Black, R.J.; Moslehi, B.; Cutkosky, M.R.; IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), pp.3431-3436, 19-23 May 2008
*	Low force control scheme for object hardness distinction in robot manipulation based on tactile sensing Yussof, H.; Ohka, M.; Takata, J.; Nasu, Y.; Yamano, M.; International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), pp.3443-3448, 19-23 May 2008
*	Measurement of force vector field of robotic finger using vision-based haptic sensor Sato, K.; Kamiyama, K.; Nii, H.; Kawakami, N.; Tachi, S.; IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), pp.488-493, 22-26 Sept. 2008
*	Robust material discrimination by a soft anthropomorphic finger with tactile and thermal sense Takamuku, S.; Iwase, T.; Hosoda, K.; IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), pp.3977-3982, 22-26 Sept. 2008
*	Reducing influence of robot’s motion on tactile sensor based on partially linear model Tajika, T.; Miyashita, T.; Ishiguro, H.; Hagita, N.; IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), pp.512-517, 22-26 Sept. 2008
*	Recognizing texture and hardness by touch Johnsson, M.; Balkenius, C.; IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), pp.482-487, 22-26 Sept. 2008
*	Tactile sensor with standing piezoresistive cantilevers, covered with 2-layer skin type structures for texture detection of object surface Noda, K.; Matsumoto, K.; Shimoyama, I.; IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), pp.3953-3958, 22-26 Sept. 2008
*	Development of high speed and high sensitivity slip sensor Teshigawara, S.; Ishikawa, M.; Shimojo, M.; IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), pp.47-52, 22-26 Sept. 2008
*	Tactile sensing using a novel air cushion sensor: A feasibility study Zbyszewski, D.; Bhaumik, A.; Althoefer, K.; Seneviratne, L.D.; IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), pp.41-46, 22-26 Sept. 2008
*	An embedded artificial skin for humanoid robots Cannata, G. and Maggiali, M. and Metta, G. and Sandini, G. IEEE International Conference on Multisensor Fusion and Integration for Intelligent Systems, pp. 434-438, 2008.
*	Opto-tactile sensor for surface texture pattern identification using support vector machine A. M. Mazid and A. B. M. S. Ali Intl. Conf. on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision, pp. 1830–1835, 2008.
*	Extracting textural features from tactile sensors J. Edwards, J. Lawry, J. Rossiter, C. Melhuish Bioinspiration & Biomimetics, 3, pp. 1-12, 2008.
*	Templates and anchors for antenna-based wall following in cockroaches and robots Jusuk Lee, Simon Sponberg, Owen Loh, Andrew Lamperski, Robert Full, and Noah Cowan IEEE Transactions on Robotics (Special Issue on Bio-Robotics) 24, no. 1, pp. 130-143, 2008.
*	Online touch behavior recognition of hard-cover robot using temporal decision tree classifier Seong-Yong Koo and Jong-Gwan Lim and Dong-Soo Kwon IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), 2008.
*	Biomimetic Tactile Sensor Array Nicholas Wettels, Veronica J. Santos, Roland S. Johansson and Gerald E. Loeb Advanced Robotics, vol 22, no 8, pp. 829-849, 2008.
*	Force Sensing Robot Fingers using Embedded Fiber Bragg Grating Sensors and Shape Deposition Manufacturing Yong-Lae Park; Chau, K.; Black, R.J.; Cutkosky, M.R.; IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), pp.1510-1516, 2007.
*	A thermal slip sensor for biorobotic applications Accoto, D.; Damiani, F.; Sahai, R.; Campolo, D.; Guglielmelli, E.; Dario, P.; IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), pp.1523-1528, 2007.
*	Pen-type sensor for surface roughness perception Xianming Ye,; Byungjune Choi,; Sungchul Kang,; Hyoukryeol Choi IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), pp.364-369,  2007.
*	A net-structure tactile sensor covering free-form surface and ensuring high-speed response Shimojo, M.; Araki, T.; Teshigawara, S.; Aigou Ming; Ishikawa, M. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), pp.670-675,  2007.
*	Roughness feeling telepresence system on the basis of real-time estimation of surface wavelengths Okamoto, S.; Konyo, M.; Maeno, T.; Tadokoro, S. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), pp.2698-2703,  2007.
*	Development of a finger-mounted tactile sensor for surface irregularity detection Tanaka, Y.; Sato, H.; Fujimoto, H.; IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), pp.690-696,  2007.
*	A flexible and stretchable tactile sensor utilizing static electricity Tada, Y.; Inoue, M.; Kawasaki, T.; Kawahito, Y.; Ishiguro, H.; Suganuma, K.; IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), pp.684-689, 2007.
*	Map acquisition and classification of haptic interaction using cross correlation between distributed tactile sensors on the whole body surface Noda, T.; Miyashita, T.; Ishiguro, H.; Hagita, N.; IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), pp.1099-1105, 2007.
*	Development of a sensor system for collecting tactile information Y. Tanaka, M. Tanaka, and S. Chonan Microsyst. Technol., vol. 13, no. 8-10, pp. 1005–1013, 2007.
*	Whiskerbot: A robotic active touch system modeled on the rat whisker sensory system M. J. Pearson, A. G. Pipe, C. Melhuish, B. Mitchinson, T. J. Prescott, Adaptive Behavior - Animals, Animats, Software Agents, Robots, Adaptive Systems 15 (3), pp. 223-240, 2007.
*	Neural network based sensor for classification of material type and its surface properties N. N. Charniya and S. V. Dudul, Proc. International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, pp. 2945-2950, 2007.
*	Biomimetic whiskers for shape recognition DaeEun Kim, Ralf Moeller Robotics and Autonomous Systems 55 (3), pp. 229-243, 2007.
*	Haptic discrimination of material properties by a robotic hand Takamuku, S.; Gomez, G.; Hosoda, K.; Pfeifer, R. IEEE 6th International Conference on Development and Learning , vol., no., pp.1,6, 11-13, 2007.
*	Robot skin based on touch-area-sensitive tactile element Takayuki Hoshi and Hiroyuki Shinoda IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2006.
*	A triaxial force discernment algorithm for flexible, high density, artificial skin Seth Koterba and Yoky Matsuoka IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2006.
*	Conformable and scalable tactile sensor skin for curved surfaces Yoshiyuki Ohmura, Yasuo Kuniyoshi and Akihiko Nagakubo IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2006.
*	Texture signals in whisker vibrations J. Hipp; E. Arabzadeh; E. Zorzin; J. Conradt; C. Kayser,;M. E. Diamond; P. Konig. Journal Neurophysiology, 95(3):1792–1799, 2006.
*	Three-dimensional contact imaging with an actuated whisker T. Clements, C. Rahn IEEE Trans. on Robotics 22 (4), pp. 844-848, 2006.
*	Anthropomorphic robotic soft fingertip with randomly distributed receptors Koh Hosoda and Yasunori Tada and Minoru Asada Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 54 (2), pp. 104-109, 2006.
*	Estimation of Object Inertia Parameters on Robot Pushing Operation Yong Yu Tetsu Arima and Showzow Tsujio IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2005.
*	Reaction Force Inspection System Using Neural Network Classifier Yasuhiro Yamada, Yoshiaki Komura IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2005.
*	Recognising and manipulating objects using data from a whisker sensor array R. A. Russell, J. A. Wijaya Robotica 23 (5), 653-664, 2005.
*	Intelligent haptic sensor system for robotic manipulation Payeur, P. and Pasca, C. and Cretu, A.M. and Petriu, E.M. IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, vol 54, no 4, pp. 1583-1592, 2005.
*	Multifunctional whisker arrays for distance detection, terrain mapping, and object feature extraction Schultz, J. Solomon, M. Peshkin, M. Hartmann IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), pp. 2588–2593, 2005.
*	Lateral Touch and Frictional Vibrations of Human Fingerprints Francois Martinot, Patricia Plenacoste, and Christophe Chaillou Research Report RR-5640, INRIA, 2005.
*	Texture classification using a polymer-based MEMS tactile sensor Sung-Hoon Kim, Jonathan Engel, Chang Liu and Douglas L Jones Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering, 15 (5) pp. 912-920, 2005.
*	A Tactile Recognition System Mimicking Human Mechanism for Recognizing Surface Roughness OHKA, Masahiro; KAWAMURA, Takuya; ITAHASHI, Tatsuya; TAKAYANAGI, Jyun-ichi;  MIYAOKA, Tetsu; MITSUYA, Yasunaga JSME International Journal. Series C, vol 48, no 2, p.278-285, 2005.
*	Polymer micromachined multimodal tactile sensors Jonathan Engel and Jack Chen and Zhifang Fan and Chang Liu Sensors and Actuators A: Physical, vol 117, no. 1, pp. 50-61, 2005.
*	Robotic tactile recognition of pseudorandom encoded objects Petriu, E.M. and Yeung, S.K.S. and Das, S.R. and Cretu, A.M. and Spoelder, H.J.W. IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, vol 53, no 5, pp. 1425-1432, 2004.
*	Profile sensing with an actuated whisker G. Scholz, C. Rahn, IEEE Transaction on Robotics and Automation 20 (1), 124-127, 2004.
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