Scalable sensing electronics towards a motion capture suit

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 8687, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Xu, Daniel ^a   Gisby, Todd A ^a   Xie, Shane ^b   Anderson, Iain A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Capacitance sensing; Dielectric elastomer sensors; Multiple channels; Plane fitting method; Scalable electronics; Self sensing

Indexed keywords

CAPACITANCE SENSING; DIELECTRIC ELASTOMERS; MULTIPLE CHANNELS; PLANE FITTING; SELF-SENSING;

CAPACITIVE SENSORS; CONDUCTING POLYMERS; ELASTOMERS; ELECTROACTIVE POLYMER ACTUATORS; PHYSIOLOGICAL MODELS;

SENSORS;

EID: 84878701933     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.2009642     Document Type: Conference Paper

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