Preface |
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Acknowledgement |
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1 Electronic Skin Systems |
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1.2 Integration of E-skin in iCub Robot |
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1.2.1 E-skin on iCub Fingertips |
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1.2.2 E-skin on iCub Palm |
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1.2.3 E-skin on the iCub Forearm |
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1.3 E-skin in Telemanipulation: Of the EU2020 TACTILITY Project |
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1.4 E-skin in Upper Limb Prostheses |
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1.4.1 Piezoelectric-Based E-Skin |
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1.4.2 Piezoresistive-Based E-Skin |
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2 Artificial Tactile Sensing and Electronic-Skin Technologies |
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14 | (1) |
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2.3 Artificial Skin: Concept and Evolution |
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2.3.1 Understanding the Human Skin Physiology |
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2.4.1 Transduction Mechanisms |
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2.4.2 Tactile Sensing Applications: Robotic and Prosthetic Hands |
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2.4.2.1 Tactile sensors in commercial robotic hands |
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2.4.2.2 Tactile sensory systems in prosthetics hands |
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2.5 Requirements and Challenges |
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2.6 Conclusion and Perspectives |
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3 Tactile Sensors for Smart Human-Object Interactions: Devices and Technologies |
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3.2 Technologies and Devices |
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3.2.1 Fabrication Technologies |
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3.2.2 Tactile Sensor Devices |
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3.2.2.1 Piezoresistive and resistive MEMS |
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3.2.2.4 Other sensing techniques |
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4 Optical-based Technologies for Artificial Soft Tactile Sensing |
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4.2 Optical-based Tactile Sensors |
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4.2.1 Basic Optical Principles |
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4.2.2 Pressure and Strain Optical Sensing |
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4.3 Examples of Optical-based Tactile Sensors |
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4.3.1 Single Optical Waveguide Sensor |
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4.3.2 Bundle Optical Waveguide System |
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4.3.3 Continuum Optical Waveguide Skin |
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4.4 Signal Processing Approaches for Continuum Optical Waveguide Skins |
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4.4.2 Machine Learning Methods |
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4.4.3 Case Study: Distributed Mechanical Sensing in a Soft Optical Skin |
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5 Physical Contact Localization with Artificial Intelligence and Large-Area Fiber Bragg Grating Tactile Sensors for Collaborative Biorobotics |
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5.2 Materials and Methods |
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5.2.1 FBG-based Sensing Skin |
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5.2.2 Experimental Platform and Datasets |
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5.2.3 Neural Network Structures |
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5.4 Discussion and Conclusion |
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6 Efficient Algorithms for Embedded Tactile Data Processing |
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6.2 Tactile Data Processing Algorithms |
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6.2.2 Classification and Regression |
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6.3 Embedded Processing System |
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6.4 Case Study: Touch Modality Classification |
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6.4.2 Implementation Details |
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7 Approximate Arithmetic Circuits for Energy Efficient Data Processing in Electronic Skin |
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7.2 Approximate Computing for Low-Pass Fir Filters |
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7.3 Approximate Filters for E-skin |
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7.4 Approximate Computing for Embedded Machine Learning |
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7.4.1 Approximate Arithmetic Circuits |
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7.5 Approximate Embedded Machine Learning for E-skin |
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7.5.1 Tensorial Kernel Approach |
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7.5.2 Coordinate Rotational Digital Computer Circuits |
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7.5.2.2 Approximate CORDIC implementation |
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7.5.3 Singular Value Decomposition |
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7.6 Discussion and Conclusion |
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8 Optical Links for Sensor Data Communication Systems |
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Guido Di Patrizio Stanchieri |
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164 | (3) |
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8.2 The Optical Communication Link: Principles, Data Coding, Architectures, and Devices |
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167 | (2) |
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8.3 Technical Solutions and Implementations of Optical Links |
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8.3.1 Description of the Digital Architectures for the Coding and Decoding Processes of the Sensor Data |
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8.3.2 Description of the Analogue Circuits for Sensor Signal Conditioning |
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8.4 Examples of Applications of Optical Communication Links for Sensory Systems |
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8.4.1 Optical Fiber Link for Prosthetics Developed by Discrete Commercial Components and Devices |
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179 | (3) |
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8.4.2 Optical Wireless Communication Integrated System for Implanted Biotelemetry Applications |
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182 | (5) |
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9 Artificial Skin and Electrotactile Stimulation for Advanced Tactile Feedback in Myoelectric Prostheses |
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198 | (2) |
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9.2 High-Density Sensing and Stimulation |
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200 | (3) |
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9.3 Electronic Skin Systems for Prosthetics |
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9.3.1 Biomimetic e-skins for Prosthetic Systems |
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203 | (9) |
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9.3.2 Sense of Touch in Prosthetics: Case Studies |
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212 | (6) |
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9.4 Electrotactile Stimulation for Sensory Feedback |
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9.4.1 Electrotactile Stimulation Hardware |
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9.4.2 Multiarray Electrodes and Electrode/Skin Interface |
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9.4.3 Electrotactile Feedback From Myoelectric Prostheses |
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222 | (2) |
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Index |
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About the Editors |
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