Full perimeter obstacle contact sensor based on flex sensors

Sensors and Actuators, A: Physical

Volumn 147, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 441-448

  Ponticelli, R ^a   Gonzalez de Santos, P ^a  

^a Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas   (Spain)

Author keywords

Contact sensor; Flex sensor; Fuzzy system; Obstacle avoidance; Obstacle sensor

Indexed keywords

CONTACT SENSORS; DATA ACQUISITION; DATA PROCESSING; ESTIMATION; EXPERIMENTS;

CONTACT FORCES; CONTACT SENSOR; CONTACT STATES; CONTACT ZONES; DETECTION SYSTEMS; FLEX SENSOR; FUZZY PROCESSING; FUZZY SYSTEM; MOBILE SYSTEMS; OBSTACLE AVOIDANCE; OBSTACLE SENSOR; RELATIVE DISPLACEMENTS; SENSOR SYSTEMS;

SENSORS;

EID: 49849106787     PISSN: 09244247     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sna.2008.05.029     Document Type: Article

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