Touch provides an important cue to perceive the physical properties of the external objects. Recent studies showed that tactile sensation also contributes to our sense of hand position and displacement in perceptual tasks. In this study, we tested the...
— Touch provides important information on the physical properties of external objects, and contributes to the sense of our hand position and displacement in perceptual tasks. Recent studies showed that the texture of the touched surface produced a bias...
Recent studies extended the classical view that touch is mainly devoted to the perception of the external world. Perceptual tasks where the hand was stationary demonstrated that cutaneous stimuli from contact with objects provide the illusion of hand...
The mechanical interaction between the skin and the environment is important in shaping our knowledge of object properties. In addition, the response of cutaneous mechanoreceptors also contributes to our sense of limb position and motion. In previous...
The sense of touch plays an important role to build a perceptual representation of motion and space. This aspect deserves specific attention since it can guide the technological development of devices that can encode relevant information related to...
Recent studies showed that the sense of touch is able to guide hand movements. When a blindfolded subject slides his/her finger-pad on a ridged plate to reach a target, the contribution of tactile feedback induces the illusory percept of bending...
Blindness represents one of the major disabling societal causes, impacting the life of visually impaired people and their families. For what concerns the access to written information, one of the main tools used by blind people is the traditional...
On-board data handling sub-systems shall provide robust communication on-board spacecraft and have strict requirements in terms of reliability, fault-tolerance and redundancy. In the next years, on-board data handling sub-systems will be required to...
A new class of Radio Frequency IDentification (RFID) tags, namely the three-dimensional (3D)-printed chipless RFID one, is proposed, and their performance is assessed. These tags can be realized by low-cost materials, inexpensive manufacturing...
The scattering and diffraction of a 3D Complex-Source Beam (CSB) by a wedge made from a perfect electric conductor (PEC) is analyzed in this paper. The analytic solution is based on the corresponding scalar (acoustic) fields where both soft and hard...
An extension of the Uniform Geometrical Theory of Diffraction (UTD) is proposed to analyze three-dimensional electromagnetic Complex-Source Beam (CSB) diffraction by a perfectly electrically conducting (PEC) wedge. The corresponding two-dimensional...
Low cost wireless sensors are extremely appealing in pervasive sensors networks [1], [2]. The typical configuration of commercial sensors consists of an electronic circuit in which a component induces a certain variation of an observable quantity...
We propose a CMOS Analog Vector-Matrix Multiplier for Deep Neural Networks, implemented in a standard single-poly 180 nm CMOS technology. The learning weights are stored in analog floating-gate memory cells embedded in current mirrors implementing the...
Digital electronics are ubiquitous in the modern world, but analogue electronics also play a crucial role in many devices and applications. Analogue circuits are typically manufactured using silicon as the active material. However, the desire for...
This article presents the development of a Fuzzy Guidance System (FGS) for unmanned aerial vehicles capable of pursuing and performing rendezvous with static and mobile targets. The system is designed to allow the vehicle to approach a maneuvering...