Fabrication of a capacitance-based tactile sensor with biomedical applications

American Journal of Applied Sciences

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 129-135

  Golpaygani, Ali Tavakoli ^a   Najarian, Siamak ^a   Movahedi, M Mehdi ^b   Emamieh, Goldis Darb ^a  

^a AMIRKABIR UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^b SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Capacitance; Contact force; Membrane; Tactile sensor

Indexed keywords

EID: 37249015494     PISSN: 15469239     EISSN: 15543641     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3844/ajassp.2008.129.135     Document Type: Article

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