Piezoelectric deflection sensor for a bi-bellows actuator

IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 1226-1230

  Shapiro, Yoel ^a   Wolf, Alon ^a   Kósa, Gábor ^b  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Cantilever shape measurement; data fusion; piezoelectric transducer; pneumatic actuators; sensor integration

Indexed keywords

DEFLECTION SENSORS; EXTERNAL FORCE; NEW APPLICATIONS; POLYVINYLIDENE FLUORIDES; PVDF SENSOR; SENSOR INTEGRATION; SHAPE MEASUREMENTS;

BELLOWS; DATA FUSION; NANOCANTILEVERS; PIEZOELECTRIC TRANSDUCERS; PNEUMATIC ACTUATORS; PNEUMATIC EQUIPMENT;

SENSORS;

EID: 84872841407     PISSN: 10834435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMECH.2012.2218115     Document Type: Article

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