A preliminary study on detection of muscle activity using a flexible AlN piezoelectric thin film sensor

2009 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, ROBIO 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 944-948

  Bu, Nan ^a   Fukuda, Osamu ^a   Ueno, Naohiro ^a   Inoue, Masahiro ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^b SAGA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALN; ALN FILMS; CONTROL SIGNAL; DIMENSIONAL CHANGES; MEASUREMENT METHODS; MUSCLE ACTION; MUSCLE ACTIVITIES; MUSCLE CONTRACTIONS; MUSCLE LAYERS; MUSCLE MOVEMENT; NOVEL METHODS; PIEZOELECTRIC THIN FILMS; PROSTHETIC DEVICES; SENSOR OUTPUT; SIMPLE MODEL; SIMULTANEOUS MEASUREMENT; TIMING INFORMATION; ULTRASOUND IMAGING; YOUNG'S MODULUS;

ALUMINUM NITRIDE; BIOMIMETICS; EXPERIMENTS; NITRIDES; PIEZOELECTRICITY; ROBOTICS; SENSORS; THIN FILMS; ULTRASONIC IMAGING; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

MUSCLE;

EID: 77951431510     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBIO.2009.5420447     Document Type: Conference Paper

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