Tactile sensors and their use in industrial, robotic and medical applications

Pedro Silva Girão, Octavian Postolache, José Miguel Dias Pereira
Abstract:
This article is about a special type of pressure sensors usually labelled tactile sensors. After a short overview on the subject, two application examples, one in the medical domain developed by the authors for heart rate variability using an electretsbased pressure sensor, are presented.
Keywords:
pressure sensing, tactile sensors, artificial skins, haptic sensing
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Event details
IMEKO TC:
TC16
Event name:
Cultivating Metrological Knowledge
Title:
3rd Conference on Pressure Measurement (together with 20th TC3 Conference on Measurement of Force, Mass and Torque & 1st TC22 Conference on Vibration Measurement)
Place:
Merida, MEXICO
Time:
27 November 2007 - 01 December 2007