A Small and low-cost 3-D tactile sensor for a wearable force plate

IEEE Sensors Journal

Volumn 9, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1103-1110

  Liu, Tao ^a   Inoue, Yoshio ^a   Shibata, Kyoko ^a  

^a KOCHI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Conductive rubber; Force plate; Ground reaction force; Tactile sensor

Indexed keywords

3D STRUCTURES; COMPACT SYSTEM; CONDUCTIVE RUBBER; CONTACT INTERFACE; COUPLING EFFECT; CROSS SENSITIVITY; DYNAMIC TESTS; ELASTIC RUBBER; FORCE PLATE; FORCE SENSOR; GROUND REACTION FORCES; MEASUREMENT DEVICE; NON-LINEARITY; PRESSURE SENSITIVE; TACTILE SENSORS; TRI-AXIAL FORCES;

PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); RUBBER; TESTING; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

SENSORS;

EID: 79951666911     PISSN: 1530437X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSEN.2009.2026509     Document Type: Article

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