Noncontact impedance sensing

Artificial Life and Robotics

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 35-40

  Kawahara, Tomohiro ^a   Tokuda, Kan'ichi ^b   Tanaka, Nobuyuki ^a   Kaneko, Makoto ^a  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOPCON CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Air jet; Common axis; Mechanical impedance; Noncontact; Parameter sensitivity

Indexed keywords

EID: 33746427972     PISSN: 14335298     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10015-005-0363-7     Document Type: Article

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