Towards on-line fingertip bio-impedance identification for enhancement of electro-tactile rendering

2009 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 3685-3690

  Gregory, John ^a   Xi, Ning ^a   Shen, Yantao ^b  

^a Michigan State University   (United States)

^b University of Nevada   (United States)

Author keywords

Bio impedance; Electro tactile rendering display; Fingertip; Identification; Skin electrode interface

Indexed keywords

BIO-IMPEDANCE; CIRCUIT MODELS; CURRENT CONTROL; DATA COLLECTION; DYNAMIC RANGE; ELECTRICAL SIGNAL; ELECTRICAL STIMULATIONS; ELECTRO-TACTILE RENDERING DISPLAY; ELECTRODE INTERFACE; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; ON-LINE IDENTIFICATION; REHABILITATION ENGINEERING; SENSORY SUBSTITUTION; SKIN CONDITIONS; TACTILE DISPLAY; TACTILE RENDERING; TACTILE SENSATION; TELEPRESENCE; VOLTAGE LEVELS;

CIRCUIT THEORY; INTELLIGENT ROBOTS; LOGIC CIRCUITS; PATIENT REHABILITATION; VISUAL COMMUNICATION;

IDENTIFICATION (CONTROL SYSTEMS);

EID: 76249109350     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2009.5354057     Document Type: Conference Paper

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