Enabling large scale capacitive sensing for dielectric elastomers

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 9056, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Xu, Daniel ^a   McKay, Thomas G ^a   Michel, Silvain ^b   Anderson, Iain A ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b SWISS FEDERAL LABORATORIES FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

capacitive sensing; charge tracking; DC input voltage; Dielectric elastomer sensor

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; ELASTOMERS; ELECTROACTIVE POLYMER ACTUATORS; PLASTICS;

CAPACITIVE SENSING; CAPACITIVE SENSING METHOD; CONTINUOUS TRACKING; DIELECTRIC ELASTOMERS; HAND MOTION; INPUT VOLTAGES; SENSING SIGNALS; STRAIN SENSORS;

CAPACITIVE SENSORS;

EID: 84905564191     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: 1996756X     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.2044356     Document Type: Conference Paper

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