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
Download:

IMEKO-TC16-2007-072u.pdf
DOI:

_unreg_tc16-2007.072

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