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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TC16 - Pressure and Vacuum Measurement

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