Distributive tactile sensing using fibre bragg grating sensors

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 6191, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Cowie, Barbara M ^a   Webb, David J ^a   Tam, Betty ^a   Slack, Paul ^a   Brett, Peter N ^a  

^a ASTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bragg; Distributive; Neural; Optical; Sensor

Indexed keywords

FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS; NEURAL NETWORKS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; STEEL; STRAIN GAGES;

BRAGG; DISTRIBUTIVE; NEURAL; OPTICAL;

OPTICAL SENSORS;

EID: 33745139497     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.662597     Document Type: Conference Paper

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