Power requirements for vibrotactile piezo-electric and electromechanical transducers

Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 718-726

  Perez, Claudio A ^a   Santibanez A J ^a   Holzmann, C A ^a   Estevez P A ^a   Held, C M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

Author keywords

Power consumption; Tactile displays; Tactile information transfer; Vibrotactile excitation

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMECHANICAL DEVICES; HAPTIC INTERFACES; HUMAN REHABILITATION ENGINEERING; PIEZOELECTRIC TRANSDUCERS; ROBOTICS; SURGERY; VIRTUAL REALITY; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

SINUSOIDAL PULSES (SIN); TELESURGERY;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ENERGY CONSUMPTION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MAN MACHINE INTERACTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PHYSICAL DISABILITY; PIEZOELECTRICITY; POWER SUPPLY; ROBOTICS; SENSORY ANALYSIS; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TACTILE STIMULATION; TRANSDUCER; VIBRATION SENSE; VIRTUAL REALITY; WAVEFORM;

ADULT; ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLIES; HUMANS; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; SENSORY AIDS; TOUCH; TRANSDUCERS; VIBRATION;

EID: 0344237411     PISSN: 01400118     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02349980     Document Type: Article

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