A large area tactile sensor patch based on commercial force sensors

Sensors

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 5489-5507

  Vidal Verdú, Fernando ^a   Barquero, Maria Jose ^a   Castellanos Ramos, Julián ^a   Navas González, Rafael ^a   Sánchez, Jose Antonio ^a   Serón, Javier ^a   García Cerezo, Alfonso ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÁLAGA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Assistive robots; Force sensing resistors; Human machine interaction; Tactile sensors

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; GENETIC PROCEDURES; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; ROBOTICS; TOUCH;

BIOSENSING TECHNIQUES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; ROBOTICS; TOUCH;

EID: 79957669455     PISSN: 14248220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/s110505489     Document Type: Article

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