Analysis of a Membrane-Type Polymeric-Based Tactile Sensor for Biomedical and Medical Robotic Applications

Sensors and Materials

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 25-41

  Dargahi, Javad ^a   Najarian, Siamak ^a,b  

^a Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

^b AMIRKABIR UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

FEM; Medical robotics; PVDF; Tactile sensor

Indexed keywords

EID: 1842816436     PISSN: 09144935     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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