A flexible capacitive tactile sensor array with micro structure for robotic application

Science China Information Sciences

Volumn 57, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 1-6

  Hu, XiaoHui ^a   Zhang, Xu ^a   Liu, Ming ^a   Chen, YuanFang ^a   Li, Peng ^a   Pei, WeiHua ^a   Zhang, Chun ^b   Chen, HongDa ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF SEMICONDUCTORS   (China)

^b TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

bionic robot; capacitive sensor; flexible; micro needle; tactile sensor

Indexed keywords

CAPACITIVE SENSORS; ELECTRODES; MICROCHANNELS; NEEDLES; POLYDIMETHYLSILOXANE; ROBOTICS; SENSOR ARRAYS; SILICONES;

BIONIC ROBOT; FLEXIBLE; FULL-SCALE RANGES; MICRONEEDLES; POLYDIMETHYLSILOXANE PDMS; ROBOTIC APPLICATIONS; TACTILE SENSOR ARRAY; TACTILE SENSORS;

MICROROBOTS;

EID: 84918801251     PISSN: 1674733X     EISSN: 18691919     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11432-014-5191-8     Document Type: Article

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