Net-Structure Proximity Sensor: High-Speed and Free-Form Sensor with Analog Computing Circuit

IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 3232-3241

  Hasegawa, Hiroaki ^a   Suzuki, Yosuke ^a   Ming, Aiguo ^a   Koyama, Keisuke ^a   Ishikawa, Masatoshi ^b   Shimojo, Makoto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRO COMMUNICATIONS   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Analog circuitry; mesh structure; optical sensor; photoreflector; proximity sensor; sensor integration

Indexed keywords

ANALOG COMPUTERS; PROXIMITY SENSORS; SIGNAL DETECTION;

ANALOG COMPUTATION; ELECTRONIC PARTS; HIGH-SPEED DETECTION; MACHINE INTERFACES; OUTPUT CHARACTERISTICS; PROXIMITY SENSING; REACTION DISTRIBUTION; RESISTOR NETWORK;

ANALOG CIRCUITS;

EID: 84960446735     PISSN: 10834435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMECH.2015.2417555     Document Type: Article

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