Piezoelectric vibration-type tactile sensor using elasticity and viscosity change of structure

IEEE Sensors Journal

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 1044-1051

  Arai, Fumihito ^b   Fukuda, Toshio ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Piezoelectric vibration type sensor; robot hand; self sensing; tactile sensor

Indexed keywords

EID: 85008020254     PISSN: 1530437X     EISSN: 15581748     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSEN.2007.895973     Document Type: Article

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