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iCub touch and pressure sensors

by admin on March 29, 2011 · 105 Comments

iCub has 6 touch sensors on each hand (5 are on the last part of fingers and 1 is on the palm). In the iCub Simulator, output from these sensors is available at port /robotName/touch and it is streamed as a list of 12 values Example of output: [lpam] 0.0 [rpam] 0.0 [lind] 0.0 [lmid] [...]

Controlling the iCub

by admin on November 20, 2010 · 104 Comments

After I’ve installed the YARP, iCub and iCub simulator I read 2 presentations that helped me to better understand how to control the robot via YARP. In the configuration file which is located at $ICUB_ROOT/app/simConfig/conf is set which parts of the body listen on the RPC port so you can connect to them via YARP. [...]