Sensory Systems for Robotic Applications

Ravinder Dahiya is Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Northeastern University, Boston, USA. His group (Bendable Electronics and Sustainable Technologies (BEST)) conducts fundamental research in electronic skin, flexible printed electronics and their applications in robotics, prosthetics, wearables, augmented/virtual reality and similar interactive systems. He has authored or co-authored more than 500 publications, books and submitted/granted patents and disclosures. He has led or contributed to many international projects. Prof. Dahiya is President of IEEE Sensors Council. He is the Founding Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Journal on Flexible Electronics (J-FLEX). He has been recipient of EPSRC Fellowship, Marie Curie Fellowship and Japanese Monbusho Fellowship. He has received several awards, including Technical Achievement award from IEEE Sensors Council, Young Investigator Award from Elsevier, and 12 best journal/conference paper awards as author/co-author. He is Fellow of IEEE and the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Oliver Ozioko is a lecturer in electrical and electronic engineering at the University of Derby, UK. Prior to joining the University of Derby, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Glasgow. He holds a PhD Degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the University of Glasgow. His research focuses on sensors and intelligent systems, electronic skin, haptics, assistive technologies, smart systems, as well as self-powered wearable and portable systems. He has authored or co-authored over 29 technical publications. He is the 2023 YP chair for IEEE Sensors council. Gordon Cheng is chair professor and director of the Institute for Cognitive Systems and is the coordinator of the Center of Competence Neuro-Engineering, Technical University of Munich, Germany. He is also the founding director of the Elite Master of Science program in Neuroengineering (MSNE) of the Elite Network of Bavaria, Germany. For more than 20 years, he has made pioneering contributions in humanoid robotics, neuroengineering and artificial intelligence. He founded the department of humanoid robotics and computational neuroscience at the Institute for Advanced Telecommunications Research in Kyoto, Japan, where he was department head from 2003 to 2008. In addition, from 2007 to 2008 he was a project manager at the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan, and the Japanese Science and Technology Agency, where he was responsible for the Computational Brain project (2004-2008). He is the co-inventor of 20 patents and co-authored over 350 technical publications. He was acknowledged as an IEEE Fellow in 2017 for his "contributions in humanoid robotic systems and neurorobotics". He holds a Doctorate Degree in Systems Engineering from The Australian National University.

Chapter 1: Development of tactile sensors for intelligent robotics research
Chapter 2: Developmental soft robotics
Chapter 3: Three-axis tactile sensor using optical transduction mechanism
Chapter 4: Strain sensors for soft robotic applications
Chapter 5: Neuromorphic principles for large-scale robot skin
Chapter 6: Soft three-axial tactile sensors with integrated electronics for robot skin
Chapter 7: A review of tactile sensing in e-skin, wearable device, robotic, and medical service
Chapter 8: Neuroengineering approaches for cognitive hearing technology
Chapter 9: Mobile robot olfaction state-of-the-art and research challenges
Chapter 10: Vision sensors for robotic perception
Chapter 11: Audio sensors
Chapter 12: Audio and gas sensors