Towards the integration of e-skin into prosthetic devices (original) (raw)

2016 12th Conference on Ph.D. Research in Microelectronics and Electronics (PRIME), 2016

Abstract

Endowing appliances with the capability of sensing and processing touch enables tactile interaction between electronic devices and the environment. E-skin organized as a set of multiple sensing components and integrated with a dedicated embedded electronic system can implement the communication link between e-skin and surroundings. Basing the analysis on a relevant application example (i.e. human prosthetics), the present study describes a system including an electronic skin and a stimulation unit. The overall system was validated and tested in eight healthy subjects, who were asked to recognize the shape, position and direction of a set of dynamic mechanical stimuli presented on the electronic skin. The results demonstrated that tactile information was successfully translated from a mechanical interaction applied on the e-skin into electrotactile patterns, which the subjects could recognize with a good performance. As the obtained results are promising, in this paper the challenging requirements for the integration of e-skin into prosthetic devices were assessed, mainly focusing on computational complexity of the embedded data processing unit.

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