14-07-2011, 02:51 PM
Sensitive skin is a large_area, flexible array of sensors with data processing capabilities, which can be used to cover the entire surface of a machine or even a part of a human body.It often contains multiple types of sensors or can sense multiple phenomena with one sensor. Sensitive skin devices will make possible the use of unsupervised machines operating in unstructured, unpredictable surroundings. sensitive skin will make machines cautious and thus friendly to their environments. This will allow us to build machine helpers for the disabled and elderly, bring sensing to human prosthetics, and widen the scale of machine’s use in service industry. The seminar focuses on the system concept, fabrication and application of sensitive skin.Sensitive skin presents a new paradigmn in sensing and control.It is an enabling technology with far reaching applications from medicine and biology to industry and defense.Sensitive skin will revolutionize important ares of service industry,make crucial contributions to human prosthetics and augment human sensing when fashioned into clothing.Being transducers that produce and process information,sensitive skin devices will be generating and processing data flows in real time on a massive scale which will lead to yet another leap in the binformation revolution.