Conceptual design of additive manufactured capacitive displacement sensors for adaptive pin array grippers

Schröder, Steffen; Wendt, Thomas M.; Rupitsch, Stefan J.

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Conceptual design of additive manufactured capacitive displacement sensors for adaptive pin array grippers

Steffen Schröder, Thomas M. Wendt, and Stefan J. Rupitsch

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