Seat occupancy detection based on capacitive sensing

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 58, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1487-1494

  George, Boby ^a   Zangl, Hubert ^a   Bretterklieber, Thomas ^a   Brasseur, Georg ^a  

^a GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Capacitive sensor; Carrier frequency based measurement; Electric field sensing; Seat occupancy detection

Indexed keywords

CAPACITIVE SENSING; CAPACITIVE SENSOR; CARRIER-FREQUENCY-BASED MEASUREMENT; DETECTION SCHEMES; DETECTION SYSTEMS; EXTERNAL ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; FATAL INJURIES; IN VEHICLES; LOCK-IN; PRACTICAL TESTS; REAL-TIME OPERATIONS; REINSTALLATION;

ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS;

SENSORS;

EID: 67349281435     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2009.2009411     Document Type: Conference Paper

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