Soft curvature sensors for joint angle proprioception

IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 1919-1926

  Kramer, Rebecca K ^a   Majidi, Carmel ^a   Sahai, Ranjana ^a   Wood, Robert J ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONDUCTIVE LIQUIDS; CURVATURE SENSOR; ELASTOMER FILMS; ELECTRICAL RESISTANCES; EMBEDDED MICROCHANNELS; FINGER JOINTS; JOINT ANGLE; SENSING ELEMENTS;

ELASTOMERS; ELECTRIC RESISTANCE; EMBEDDED SYSTEMS; GALLIUM; INDIUM; INTELLIGENT ROBOTS; LIQUIDS; MICROCHANNELS; PLASTICS; ROBOTICS; SILICONES;

SENSORS;

EID: 84455200619     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2011.6048270     Document Type: Conference Paper

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