MAS.965 Spring 2003: Electronic Skins and Dense Sensor Networks

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  • [PDF] A survey of human touch written for computer scientists. Includes a large list of references.
  • [PDF] Distributed Compression in Dense Microsensor Network
  • [PDF] VLSI technique for making pressure sensors. Light on details, but intriguing.
  • [PDF] MIT AI Lab and optical skin sensors.
  • [PDF] Design considerations of finger tip skin.
  • [PDF] SmartSkin: An Infrastructure for Freehand Manipulation on Interactive Surfaces.
  • [PDF] Patented Method and Apparatus for Integrating Manual Input.
  • [PDF] A thesis on "Hand Tracking, Finger Identification, and Chordic Manipulation on a Multi-touch Surface."
  • [PDF] IC-Integrated Flexible Shear-Stress Sensor Skin
  • [PDF] A Large Area Force Sensor for Smart Skin Applications
  • [PDF] A Textile Based Capacitive Pressure Sensor
  • [PDF] DiamondTouch Characteristics and Capabilities
  • [PDF] Smart Structures Overview
  • [PDF] Several Sensor Approaches that Retrofit Large Surfaces for Interactivity
  • [HTML] Sensor systems for interactive surfaces
  • [PDF] A Tactile Sensor for Localizing Transient Events in Manipulation
  • [PS] A Distributed Pressure Sensor for Biomechanical Measurements
  • [PS] A Full Tactile Sensing Suite for Dextrous Robot Hands and Use in Contact Force Control
  • [PDF] A Sensor Skin Using Wire-free Tactile Sensing Elements Based on Optical Connection
  • [PDF] A Sensitive Skin Using Wireless Tactile Sensing Elements
  • [PDF] Somesthesis
  • [PDF] Electroactive Fabrics for Distributed, Conformable and Interactive Systems
  • [PDF] The performance of a deformable-membrane tactile sensor: basic results on geometrically-defined tasks
  • [PDF] Sensitive Skin
  • [PDF] Contact Sensing, a State of the Art (in Japanese, but good reference list)
  • [PDF] Novel Sensor Technology for Shear and Normal Strain Detection with Generalized Electrostriction
  • [PDF] Tactile Sensor Based on Piezoelectric Resonance
  • [PDF] A Tactile Sensory-Enhanced Assistive Robot
  • [PDF] A Single-Chip Fingerprint Sensor and Identifier
  • [PDF] Wireless Integrated Network Sensors: Low Power Systems on a Chip
  • [PDF] TAG: a Tiny Aggregation Service for Ad-Hoc Sensor Networks
  • [PDF] The Electoreceptor
  • [PDF] Smart Dust: Communicating with a Cubic-Millimeter Computer
  • [PDF] Wireless Sensor Networks for Habitat Monitoring
  • [PDF] Power Aware Wireless Microsensor Systems
  • [PDF] Pushpin Computing System Overview: a Platform for Distributed, Embedded, Ubiquitous Sensor Networks
  • [PDF][PS] Robomote: A Tiny Mobile Robot Platform for Large-Scale Ad-hoc Sensor Networks
  • [PDF] Scalable Coordination for Wireless Sensor Networks: Self-Configuring Localization Systems
  • [PDF][PS] Organizing a Global Coordinate System from Local Information on an Amorphous Computer
  • [PDF] Wireless Sensor Networks: A New Regime for Time Synchronization
  • [PDF] Measurement of Space: From Ants to Robots
  • [PDF] On the Interdependence of Routing and Data Compression in Multi-Hop Sensor Networks
  • [PDF] (new) Energy-Aware Wireless Microsensor Networks
  • [PDF] (new) Algorithmic Transforms for Efficient Energy Scalable Computation

Books:

  • The Psychology of Touch
    • Editors: Morton A. Heller and William Schiff
    • ISBN: 0805807519
    • Availability: [Amazon], [AddALL]
  • Principles of Neuroscience, Fourth Edition
    • Editors: Eric R. Kandel, James H. Schwartz, and Thomas M. Jessell
    • ISBN: 0838577016
    • Availability: [Amazon]
  • Skin: Surface, Substance, and Design
  • Fiber Optic Smart Structures
    • Editor: Eric Udd
    • ISBN: 0-471-55448-0
    • Availability: [Wiley]

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Fiction:

  • The Diamond Age by Neil Stephenson