Weakly electric fish emit an AC electric field into the water and use thousands of sensors on the skin to detect field perturbations due to surrounding objects. The fish's active electrosensory system allows them to navigate and hunt, using separate neural pathways and receptors for resistive and capacitive perturbations. We have previously developed a sensing method inspired by the weakly elec...

Capacitive input devices are becoming increasingly prevalent in consumer devices. This paper presents the hardware and algorithms for the low cost implementation of a capacitive 2.5D input device. The low cost and low power consumption of the device make it suitable for use in portable devices such as cellular phones. The electrical properties used are such that the preexisting snap dome techno...

OF DOCTORAL DISSERTATION AALTO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY P.O. BOX 11000, FI-00076 AALTO http://www.aalto.fi Author Matti Paavola Name of the dissertation Manuscript submitted May 24, 2010 Manuscript revised August 24, 2010 Date of the defence October 1, 2010 Article dissertation (summary + original articles) Monograph Faculty Department Field of research Opponent(s) Supervisor...

In recent years, medium-voltage variable-speed drives have become popular in the industry. However, some applications, use of long cables can lead to overvoltages at motor terminals, affecting lifespan. Under such conditions, passive filters is recommended. inductive capacitive (LC) results resonances, leading control stability issues. This issue be mitigated by introducing a resonance damping ...

INTRODUCTION Surgical robots and miniaturized smart instruments have been developed to overcome limitations of current tools and further reduce invasiveness of surgical procedures [1][2]. This miniaturization effort, as well as the development of more flexible instruments that can navigate the body following complex anatomical paths toward the surgical target, often leads to the loss of sensory...

Silicon Laboratories' capacitive sensing techniques are compatible with external ESD protection methods. Designers should be aware of parasitic parameters in these circuits which affect capacitive sensing performance when implementing these protection methods. While most of the methods affect sensing performance in some way, in almost all cases an acceptable balance between performance, protect...

This article presents a software tool to automatically generate the mathematical model of capacitive MEMS gyroscopes in a symbolic form. After describing the operational principle of a specific one-axis gyroscope with capacitive drive actuators and capacitive sensors, a mathematical concept is presented that allows for the systematic description of a certain class of capacitive MEMS gyroscopes....

For more than two decades, capacitive sensing has played a prominent role in human-computer interaction research. Capacitive sensing has become ubiquitous on mobile, wearable, and stationary devices—enabling fundamentally new interaction techniques on, above, and around them. The research community has also enabled human position estimation and whole-body gestural interaction in instrumented en...

Projected capacitive touch panels have been widely used in many mobile application systems such as smartphones and tablet PCs. We fabricated projected capacitive-type touch sensors using printed circuit boards. It has equivalent parasitic capacitive loads with a 10” touch panel. In this paper, we discuss projected capacitive touch technologies and their highperformance touch controllers. We int...