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Introduction to Force Measurement

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Handbook of Force Transducers

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Our sense of touch is a primary means of interaction with environment. If we have to create interfaces that can communicate force information [1.1], a wide range of sizes is conceivable, capable of generating and sensing time-varying forces at a single point or a distributed array of points on a surface (Table 1.1).

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Ştefănescu, D.M. (2011). Introduction to Force Measurement. In: Handbook of Force Transducers. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-18296-9_1

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