Sentences with phrase «force sensors»

Previous techniques similar to this used many atoms as the electric force sensor and were limited to only one dimension.

These more recent proposals make extensive use of quantum technologies, from atomic clocks to weak force sensors.

On the whole we prefer the higher resolution Z Force sensor.

Force sensors in headgear could signal whether a hit is strong enough to cause concern should the player receive a second serious blow.

However, HTC has integrated force sensors into the sides, allowing the U11 to detect a «squeeze» similar to how Apple's Force Touch trackpad and touchscreen technology works.

This is a custom - designed force sensor made of carbon and silver, which reacts to a subtle increase of pressure, triggers a page - turn, and provides a haptic response only your thumb can perceive.

Described in the March 5 issue of Nature Communications, the technique uses lasers coupled with force sensors, digital cameras and advanced computer algorithms to peer inside and measure the forces between neighboring particles in 3 - D.

And in lieu of old - school mechanical buttons like the proletariat have to use for turning the page on their e-readers, the Voyage uses a «custom - designed force sensor made of carbon and silver» that reacts to gentle pressure from a finger and provides a subtle vibrating haptic response in return.

Feedback from force sensors also helped: When the robot needed to insert a pin into a hole, for example, it would slide the pin over the surface until it felt a change in force.

For this work, he and graduate students Anna Ye and Stuart Cane used two different force sensors inserted into the kinetochores.

A group of researchers from Russia, Belarus and Spain, including MIPT professor Yury Lozovik, have developed a microscopic force sensor based on carbon nanotubes.

By attaching force sensors to gear recovered from entangled whales and dragging it through the water, Van der Hoop and colleagues have found that lines wrapped around a whale's fins and body can increase drag by 160 %; towing a lobster trap more than doubles the load.

Operated as force sensors, for example, they are capable of detecting local disturbances at the level of attonewtons, equivalent to the gravitational pull between human beings.

«Scientists develop force sensor from carbon nanotubes.»

Researchers captured 29 coconut crabs on Okinawa Island in Japan and had them clamp down on steel force sensors.

«If you're trying to pick up an egg with fingers, you need lots of very sensitive force sensors,» says Whitesides.

A single - atom 3D sub-attonewton force sensor.

The methodology might also be used in the development of dye - sensitised force sensors or in force - responsive fluorescent tags for biological assays.

This how - to guide, for the Science Buddies wind tunnel, uses two Dual - Range Force Sensors, made by Vernier (see Figure 1A).

This trait can curl toenails not only through second - gear kinks but also on autobahn bends taken at an indicated 170 mph, when even mild correction maneuvers overload the g - force sensor inside your brain.

Pirelli slick tyres ensure the FXX K stays keyed into the track surface, while temperature, pressure and G - force sensors relay everything the engineers need to know about what's happening at the tyre - road contact patch.

Apple explained at its Spring Forward event on Monday that Force Touch technology on the trackpad of the new MacBook uses force sensors «to detect how much pressure you apply on its surface».

This button would have mutual and self - capacitance with elastomer, active button trim, functional plates and directional force sensors that all get activate with a touch of a finger.

Apple MacBook features a new Force - touch trackpad which contains built - in force sensors which reacts according to the pressure exerted.

Auckburaully doesn't force the sensor onto the front of the phone but does reposition it so that it's underneath the vertically - aligned rear cameras.

Apple also describes how force sensors could be used for even more accurate input.

At every step, force sensors in ScrubMate's «wrist» tell it just how much pressure to exert to do a good cleaning job.

Using a solution of hundreds of translucent hydrogel beads in a Plexiglass box to simulate soil, sand or snow, the technique relies on lasers coupled with force sensors, cameras and advanced computer algorithms to measure the forces between neighboring particles in 3 - D.

Using two different force sensors to measure opposing forces inside dividing Drosophila cells, Maresca and colleagues at UMass Amherst have proposed that kinetochore fibers exert hundreds of piconewtons of poleward - directed force on kinetochores, settling the matter of how much force is brought to bear.

PagePress is a custom - designed force sensor made of carbon and silver, which reacts to a subtle increase of pressure, triggers a page - turn, and provides a haptic response only your thumb can perceive.

The force sensors mounted on their «wrists» allowed for detection of force changes as they gripped the chair pieces, to verify that pins slid into the correct holes, for example.

But researchers have finally broken the dexterity barrier by combining commercially available hardware, including 3D cameras and force sensors, to build two chair - building bots.

A force sensor at the bottom of the vat, just under where the rod struck, recorded how quickly the resulting stepping stone formed and hit bottom.

This will convert the force sensor into a magnetic field sensor.

If the quality factor of the resonator is high, the mechanical energy will dissipate at a very low rate, and therefore the resonator will be extremely accurate at measuring or sensing objects thus enabling these systems to become very sensitive mass and force sensors, as well as exciting quantum systems.

Force sensors in the robot recorded that it had suffered violent shaking — or been thrown to the ground — a number of times.

The researchers modeled the touch experiments using a «mock finger,» a finger - like device made of an organic polymer that's connected by a spring to a force sensor.

«It's also interesting that the mock finger device, which doesn't have anything resembling the hundreds of nerves in our skin, has just one force sensor and is still able to get the information needed to feel the difference in these surfaces.

A force sensor and two laser rangefinders track the student's movements, which are compared with motion - capture data from professional dancers.

Franz Gießibl describes achieving atomic resolution with the atomic force microscope for the first time and the introduction of Q plus sensing based on the force sensors in Swiss watches.

Some use visible or infrared light while others rely on sound waves or force sensors.

They jack up car on a jack with force sensor, then spin the tire externally and measure the system out of balance condition.

VDC ensures optimal torque distribution to the appropriate wheels based on input from steering wheel angle, yaw and lateral g - force sensors.

The instruments are easy to read and the information display between the two major dials can scroll through power / torque animations, fuel consumption, an old - fashioned analogue clock and a g - force sensor.

PagePress uses a custom - designed force sensor that sits directly under the bezel.

The device also includes a new feature called PagePress, a force sensor on the right and left bezel that readers can push to turn pages.

In addition, there is an advanced Force Touch trackpad to provide highly responsive input support through its built - in force sensors and Force Click gesture support.