Considerable amount of effort has been devoted, over the recent years, towards the development of electronic skin (e-skin) for many application domains such as prosthetics, robotics, and industrial automation.

Electronic Skin: Sensors and Systems focuses on the main components constituting the e-skin system. The e-skin system is based on: i) sensing materials composing the tactile sensor array, ii) the front end electronics for data acquisition and signal conditioning, iii) the embedded processing unit performing tactile data decoding, and iv) the communication interface in charge of transmitting the sensors data for further computing.

Technical topics discussed in the book include:

• Tactile sensing material;
• Electronic Skin systems;
• Embedded computing and tactile data decoding;
• Communication systems for tactile data transmission;
• Relevant applications of e-skin system;

Electronic skin system, tactile sensors, embedded data processing, efficient algorithms for smart tactile sensors, optical communication links, electronic skin system applications