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From: acc@dibble.cee.hw.ac.uk (Andrew Clegg)
Subject: Re: LORD force/torque sensor
In-Reply-To: rbh@gambit.utias.utoronto.ca's message of 29 Sep 94 14:16:02 GMT
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In article <1994Sep29.101600.11851@jarvis.cs.toronto.edu> rbh@gambit.utias.utoronto.ca (Roger Barry Hertz) writes:
> In article <368pvo$cmh@lirmm.lirmm.fr>, BEGON <begon@lirmm.fr> wrote:
> >We want to buy a LORD force torque sensor, but we have no infos
> >on its real capabilities.
> A friend in the industry told me that about six years ago,
> several engineers left LORD to form ATI sensors.  Can't tell
> you much else, sorry.  
> 
> I do know that many organizations I'm familiar with prefer ATI sensors
> over other competitors.  Why?  Not really sure---maybe someone else
> could fill us in....

We use an ATI force/torque sensor. Their sales blurb says something
about them using silicon strain gauges which are more accurate, or so 
they say. The unit performs really well and is easy to use, but I
don't know how it compares to sensors from other companies. The
customer support from ATI is really good.

Just a happy customer.

Andy Clegg________________________________________acc@cee.hw.ac.uk___

Ocean Systems Lab, Dept of Computing & Electrical Engineering,
Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, EH14 4AS	  Tel : 031 451 3506
http://www.cee.hw.ac.uk/~acc/acc.html		  Fax : 031 451 3327
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