Shaping Resistive Bend Sensors to Enhance Readout Linearity

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</svg> (a) and the superposition of the normalized ones (b), compared with an ideal linear characteristic (dotted), for a resistance-to-voltage converter.</table>

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Shaping Resistive Bend Sensors to Enhance Readout Linearity

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