Electrotactile display with real-time impedance feedback using pulse width modulation

IEEE Transactions on Haptics

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 184-188

  Kajimoto, Hiroyuki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRO COMMUNICATIONS   (Japan)

Author keywords

Electrotactile display; impedance feedback; pulse width modulation; real time feedback; two point discrimination

Indexed keywords

ELECTRICAL IMPEDANCE; ELECTRO-TACTILE DISPLAYS; EVALUATION EXPERIMENTS; FEED-BACK LOOP; POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS; PULSEWIDTHS; REAL-TIME FEEDBACK; SKIN RESISTANCE; SKIN SURFACES; SPATIAL VARIATIONS; TEMPORAL CHANGE; TWO-POINT;

ALGORITHMS; HAPTIC INTERFACES; SKIN;

PULSE WIDTH MODULATION;

EID: 84862162633     PISSN: 19391412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TOH.2011.39     Document Type: Article

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