Design, fabrication, and testing of a membrane piezoelectric tactile sensor with four sensing elements

American Journal of Applied Sciences

Volumn 4, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 645-652

  Mirbagheri, Ashkan ^a   Dargahi, Javad ^a   Najarian, Siamak ^b   Ghomshe, Farhad Tabatabai ^c  

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

^b AMIRKABIR UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOCIAL WELFARE AND REHABILITATION SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Minimally invasive surgery; Tactile sensing

Indexed keywords

EID: 34250766189     PISSN: 15469239     EISSN: 15543641     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3844/ajassp.2007.645.652     Document Type: Article

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