From embedded sensor to sensorial material - Special issue of Sensors and Actuators A: Physical
In November 2011 a special issue of Sensors and Actuators A: Physical was published, gathering contributions presented at the symposium A “From Embedded Sensors to Sensorial Materials”, which was organised by EPoSS member ISIS within the framework of the E-MRS Spring Meeting 2010.
Sensors and Actuators A: Physical is a leading scientific journal in
a central thematic area of ISIS, the development, layout,
characterization and integration of sensors. Guest editors of the
publication are Prof. Sybrand van der Zwaag (Technical University
Delft), Prof. Robert Dorey (Cranfield University) and for ISIS Prof.
Dr.-Ing. Walter Lang (IMSAS) and Dr.-Ing. Dirk Lehmhus.
The group of guest editors are also responsible for a preface [1], in
which the concept of sensorial materials is explained and further
research efforts are motivated: Sensorial materials and the associated
technologies can form, as specific examples of so-called cyber-physical
systems, the basis of an ubiquitous ambient intelligence able to
support human beings in multiple ways. The spectrum of application
scenarios ranges from classic fields like structural health monitoring
via ambient assisted living to contributions to realizing the factories
of the future – a framework in which increasingly autonomous systems
monitor and control production processes on the basis of increasingly
comprehensive sensor data: This, then, would be the recently much
publicized 4th industrial revolution. In a further introductory review
paper, member of the ISIS board of directors Prof. Lang presents
challenges sensor technology is faced with in the context of
implementing sensorial materials [2].
The symposium on which the special issue is based formed part of the
Spring Meeting 2010 of the European Materials Research Society (E-MRS).
From June 8th to 10th, scientists from 26 (!) met in Strasbourg to
present and discuss their research. Altogether 34 speaker took part in
dedicated sessions on sensor integration, optical components,
nanosystems, materials and technologies and flexible materials as well
as biological and chemical sensing, presenting their latest research.
As invited contributors from industry, representatives of Phillips
(Netherlands) and Meggitt Sensing Systems (Denmark) could be won, while
from the academic world Georgia Tech, the University of Freiburg’s
Microsystems technology institute IMTEK and the Collaborative Research
Centre CRC 653 on “gentelligent materials”, located at the University
of Hannover, helped to complete the picture.
The special issue including the contributions from Bremen is available via the web site of the journal --> Click Here
References
[1] Lang, W., Lehmhus, D., van der Zwaag, S., Dorey, R.: Sensorial materials—A vision about where progress in sensor integration may lead to. Sensors and Actuators A 171 (2011) 1-2.
[2] Lang, W., Jakobs, F., Tolstosheeva, E., Sturm, H., Ibragimov, A., Kesel, A., Lehmhus, D., Dicke, U.: From embedded sensors to sensorial materials—The road to function scale integration. Sensors and Actuators A 171 (2011) 3-11.
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