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<p>In this work a low cost sensor has been developed to measure three-directional forces. The theory, design and sensor construction details are presented. It was constructed by using commercial strain gauges. Finite element method was adopted to optimize the structure dimensions, and improve the sensitivity of force sensor by distributing the sensing stress on the maximum strain positions. A hardware conditioning circuits was developed for the 3D force sensor. The calibration experiments were performed to calculate calibration coefficients by using the regression analysis method and test linear property of the sensor.</p>
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In this work a low cost sensor has been developed to measure three-directional forces. The theory, design and sensor construction details are presented. It was constructed by using commercial strain gauges. Finite element method was adopted to optimize the structure dimensions, and improve the sensitivity of force sensor by distributing the sensing stress on the maximum strain positions. A hardware conditioning circuits was developed for the 3D force sensor. The calibration experiments were performed to calculate calibration coefficients by using the regression analysis method and test linear property of the sensor.

A Low Cost Three-Directional Force Sensor

International Journal on Smart Sensing and Intelligent Systems

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In this work a low cost sensor has been developed to measure three-directional forces. The theory, design and sensor construction details are presented. It was...

A Low Cost Three-Directional Force Sensor

Publié en ligne: 12 déc. 2017

Pages: 21 - 34

Reçu: 20 oct. 2010

Accepté: 15 févr. 2011

DOI: https://doi.org/10.21307/ijssis-2017-424

© 2011 S. Boukhenous, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.