Smart Skin for tactile prosthetics

Summary, in English

This paper provides an overview of a concept for a Smart Skin, for enabling tactile prosthetics that provide for a natural sensation of touch. The solution embeds miniature, ultra-low power, wireless sensors into the silicone coating of the prosthetic. The solution offers advantages in terms of scalability, ability to place the sensors almost anywhere, fault tolerance and potential ease of manufacturing.

• Author: John Farserotu; Jacek Babrowski; Jean-Dominique Decotignie; Phillippe Dallemagne; Christian Enz; Fredrik Sebelius; Birgitta Rosén; Christian Antfolk; Göran Lundborg; Anders Björkman; Thomas Knieling; Peter Gulde
• Department/s: Department of Biomedical Engineering; Hand Surgery, Malmö
• Publishing year: 2012
• Language: English
• Pages: 1-8
• Publication/Series: [Host publication title missing]
• Links: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ISMICT.2012.6203057
• Document type: Conference paper
• Publisher: IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
• Topic: Surgery
• Conference name: 2012 6th International Symposium on Medical Information and Communication Technology (ISMICT)
• Conference date: 2012-03-25 - 2016-03-29
• Status: Published
• Research group: Hand Surgery, Malmö
• ISBN/ISSN/Other: ISBN: 978-1-4673-1234-9