14-10-2017, 03:25 PM
Smart skin is a flexible, large area sensor array with data processing capabilities that can be used to cover the entire surface of a machine or even a part of a human body. Depending on the electronics of the skin, it gives your operator an ability to detect your surroundings through proximity, touch, pressure, temperature, chemicals / biological or other skin sensors.
Sensitive skin devices will make it possible to use unsupervised machines operating in an unstructured and unpredictable environment among people, among many obstacles, outdoors in a crowded street, under the surface or on distant planets. Sensitive skin will make the machines "cautious" and therefore friendly to their environment.
This will allow us to build machine assistants for people with disabilities and the elderly, detect human prostheses and expand the scale of use of machines in the service industry. With its ability to produce and process massive data flows, skin-sensitive devices will make another breakthrough in the information revolution. This document examines the state of the art and the research problems that must be resolved to make sensitive skin a reality. It is difficult to anticipate some applications that smart skin devices will make possible. Flexible semiconductor films and flexible metal interconnections that will result from this work will enable us to develop new low-cost electronics, new types of displays, printers, new ways of storing and sharing information (such as electronic paper and upgradable books and maps) "). .
New device concepts suitable for flexible wide-area semiconductor films will lead to new sensors that will find applications in space exploration and defense, specifically in mine detection and active camouflage. A parallel processing capability of massive amounts of data from millions of sensors will find applications in environmental control and in the energy industry. These areas will be further developed because of the highly interdisciplinary nature of intelligent skin work, which lies at the intersection of information technology, mechanical engineering, materials science, biotechnology and micro and nano electronics. The availability of smart skin hardware is likely to stimulate theoretical and experimental work in many other disciplines that are far removed from robotics.
Sensitive skin devices will make it possible to use unsupervised machines operating in an unstructured and unpredictable environment among people, among many obstacles, outdoors in a crowded street, under the surface or on distant planets. Sensitive skin will make the machines "cautious" and therefore friendly to their environment.
This will allow us to build machine assistants for people with disabilities and the elderly, detect human prostheses and expand the scale of use of machines in the service industry. With its ability to produce and process massive data flows, skin-sensitive devices will make another breakthrough in the information revolution. This document examines the state of the art and the research problems that must be resolved to make sensitive skin a reality. It is difficult to anticipate some applications that smart skin devices will make possible. Flexible semiconductor films and flexible metal interconnections that will result from this work will enable us to develop new low-cost electronics, new types of displays, printers, new ways of storing and sharing information (such as electronic paper and upgradable books and maps) "). .
New device concepts suitable for flexible wide-area semiconductor films will lead to new sensors that will find applications in space exploration and defense, specifically in mine detection and active camouflage. A parallel processing capability of massive amounts of data from millions of sensors will find applications in environmental control and in the energy industry. These areas will be further developed because of the highly interdisciplinary nature of intelligent skin work, which lies at the intersection of information technology, mechanical engineering, materials science, biotechnology and micro and nano electronics. The availability of smart skin hardware is likely to stimulate theoretical and experimental work in many other disciplines that are far removed from robotics.