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

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Weekly Schedule

  • WEEK 01 :: [Monday, 10 February 2003 @ E15-335]
    • Topic: Introduction and overview.
    • Presenter: Josh Lifton, a.k.a. the TA
    • Required readings: none
  • WEEK 02 :: [Tuesday, 18 February 2003 @ E15-335] Canceled due to snow. Schedule set back by one week.
  • WEEK 02 :: [Tuesday, 25 February 2003 @ NE18 5th floor conference room]
    • Topic: Structure and capability of biological skin.
    • Presenters: Dan Stiehl and Larissa Welti-Santos
    • Required readings:
      • Chapter 2 from ``The Psychology of Touch'' edited by Heller and Schiff
      • One other biological skin reading of your choice. Either find your own reading or choose an article listed at the Laboratory of Dexterous Manipulation.
  • WEEK 03 :: [Monday, 03 March 2003 @ E15-335]
    • Topic: Sensors applicable to electronic skin (part I).
    • Presenters: Ryan Chin, Philip Liang, and Jonathan Bachrach
    • Required readings:
      • [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
      • At least one reading of your choice relating to sensor technology applicable to skins. Check the resources page for ideas. The references sections from the above required readings are also a good place to look.
  • WEEK 04 :: [Monday, 10 March 2003 @ E15-335]
    • Topic: Sensors applicable to electronic skin (part II).
    • Presenters: Diana Young, Dan Stiehl, and others
    • Required readings:
      • [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
      • At least one reading of your choice relating to sensor technology applicable to skins. Check the resources page for ideas. The references sections from the above required readings are also a good place to look.
  • WEEK 05 :: [Monday, 17 March 2003 @ E15-335]
    • Topic: Sensors applicable to electronic skin (part III) and introduction to sensor networks.
    • Presenters: Thomas Papakostas and Aggelos Bletsas
    • Required readings:
      • [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
      • At least one reading of your choice relating to sensor technology applicable to skins. Check the resources page for ideas. The references sections from the above required readings are also a good place to look.
  • WEEK 06 :: [Monday, 31 March 2003 @ E15-335]
    • Topic: Introduction to various sensor network hardware platforms and concerns.
    • Presenters: Kelly Dobson, Jonathan Bachrach, and Josh Lifton
    • Required readings:
      • [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
      • At least one reading of your choice relating to sensor networks in general, but preferably having to do with hardware systems.
  • WEEK 07 :: [Monday, 07 April 2003 @ E15-335]
    • Topic: More introduction to sensor networks, including algorithms and simulations.
    • Presenters: Amanda Parkes and Bill Butera
    • Required readings:
      • [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
      • At least one reading of your choice relating to sensor networks in general.
  • WEEK 08 :: [Friday, 18 April 2003 @ 1CC Conference Room]
    • Topic: Further introduction to simulation environments and an overview of time synchronization and spatial localization.
    • Presenters: James McBride and Josh Lifton
    • Required readings:
      • [PDF] Wireless Sensor Networks: A New Regime for Time Synchronization
      • [PDF] Measurement of Space: From Ants to Robots
      • At least one reading of your choice relating to sensor networks in general.
  • WEEK 09 :: [Monday, 28 April 2003 @ E15-335]
    • Topic: Finishing up time synchronization and spatial localization. This week's readings introduce information theory as a tool for analyzing sensor networks.
    • Presenters: Arnan Sipitakiat and Aggelos Bletsas
    • Required readings:
      • [PDF] On the Interdependence of Routing and Data Compression in Multi-Hop Sensor Networks
  • WEEK 10 :: [Monday, 05 May 2003 @ E15-335]
    • Topic: Distributed estimation and overview of last week's paper.
    • Presenters: Michael Broxton and Josh Lifton
    • Required readings:
      • Finish reading last week's paper.
  • WEEK 11 :: [Monday, 12 May 2003 @ E15-335]
    • Topic: Energy awareness in sensor networks and demonstration by Millennial.
    • Presenters: Ari Benbasat and Sheng Liu
    • Required readings:
      • [PDF] Energy-Aware Wireless Microsensor Networks
      • [PDF] Algorithmic Transforms for Efficient Energy Scalable Computation
      • Read the first paper listed first, followed by the second. The second is a bit technical, but at least skim through it to get the main ideas.