Bio-inspired tactile sensor with arrayed structures based on electroactive polymers

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6927, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Wang, Jin ^a   Xu, Chunye ^a   Taya, Minoru ^a   Kuga, Yasuo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b University of Washington   (United States)

Author keywords

Flemion; IPMC; Tactile sensor; Three dimensional

Indexed keywords

ELECTROACTIVE POLYMERS; FLEMION; IONIC POLYMER METAL COMPOSITES; TACTILE SENSORS;

ACTUATORS; CONDUCTING POLYMERS; HAPTIC INTERFACES; METALLIC MATRIX COMPOSITES; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STRAIN MEASUREMENT;

SENSORS;

EID: 44349189938     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.776547     Document Type: Conference Paper

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