Sensing tactile microvibrations with the BioTac Comparison with human sensitivity

Proceedings of the IEEE RAS and EMBS International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 1122-1127

  Fishel, Jeremy A ^a,b   Loeb, Gerald E ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b SynTouch LLC   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CONTACT SURFACE; HUMAN PERFORMANCE; HUMAN SENSITIVITY; INCOMPRESSIBLE LIQUIDS; MICROVIBRATIONS; NOISE FLOOR; RIGID CORE; SENSORY ELEMENTS; SMALL PARTICLES; TACTILE SENSORS; TRANSIENT EVENTS; WIDE BANDWIDTH;

ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING;

TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 84867416580     PISSN: 21551774     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/BioRob.2012.6290741     Document Type: Conference Paper

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