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Veronica J. Santos

Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles
Verified email at ucla.edu
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Medical robotics—Regulatory, ethical, and legal considerations for increasing levels of autonomy

…, P Kazanzides, S Martel, RV Patel, VJ Santos… - Science Robotics, 2017 - science.org
Santos, and Russell H. Taylor … SantosSantos is Director of the Biomechatronics Lab
and an Associate Professor of Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering …

Biomimetic tactile sensor array

N Wettels, VJ Santos, RS Johansson… - Advanced robotics, 2008 - Taylor & Francis
The performance of robotic and prosthetic hands in unstructured environments is severely
limited by their having little or no tactile information compared to the rich tactile feedback of the …

Flexible microfluidic normal force sensor skin for tactile feedback

RDP Wong, JD Posner, VJ Santos - Sensors and actuators a: Physical, 2012 - Elsevier
Robotic applications often require robust tactile sensing capabilities on curved surfaces, such
as artificial fingertips. Flexible tactile sensors could be conformally wrapped around curved …

[BOOK][B] The human hand as an inspiration for robot hand development

R Balasubramanian, VJ Santos - 2014 - Springer
As identified in the 2013 roadmap for US robotics, robotics is expected to impact society on
a massive scale in the coming decades economically and socially in the manufacturing, …

Reported anatomical variability naturally leads to multimodal distributions of Denavit-Hartenberg parameters for the human thumb

VJ Santos, FJ Valero-Cuevas - IEEE Transactions on …, 2006 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… The work of VJ Santos was supported in part by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under
a … VJ Santos is with the Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Cornell …

A robust micro-vibration sensor for biomimetic fingertips

JA Fishel, VJ Santos, GE Loeb - 2008 2nd IEEE RAS & EMBS …, 2008 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Controlling grip force in a prosthetic or robotic hand requires detailed sensory feedback
information about microslips between the artificial fingertips and the object. In the biological …

Bioinspired flexible microfluidic shear force sensor skin

J Yin, VJ Santos, JD Posner - Sensors and Actuators A: Physical, 2017 - Elsevier
There is a need to gather rich, real-time tactile information to enhance robotic hand performance
during haptic exploration and object manipulation. Measuring shear forces is useful for …

Elastohydrodynamic friction of robotic and human fingers on soft micropatterned substrates

…, A Kawazoe, Y Shao, K Gutierrez, CN Hill, VJ Santos… - Nature Materials, 2021 - nature.com
Frictional sliding between patterned surfaces is of fundamental and practical importance in
the haptic engineering of soft materials. In emerging applications such as remote surgery and …

[HTML][HTML] Genetic diversity of carotenoid-rich bananas evaluated by Diversity Arrays Technology (DArT)

…, JA Santos-Serejo, KN Pestana, VJ Santos… - … and Molecular Biology, 2009 - SciELO Brasil
The aim of this work was to evaluate the carotenoid content and genetic variability of banana
accessions from the Musa germplasm collection held at Embrapa Cassava and Tropical …

A glove-based system for studying hand-object manipulation via joint pose and force sensing

…, M Edmonds, F Gao, Y Zhu, VJ Santos… - 2017 IEEE/RSJ …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present a design of an easy-to-replicate glove-based system that can reliably perform
simultaneous hand pose and force sensing in real time, for the purpose of collecting human …