9 Best Books on Flexible and Wearable Sensors

“Flexible and Stretchable Electronic Composites” Book Review: This comprehensive book provides a detailed collection of electronic parts made from a variety of elastomer composites. These composites are created by blending synthetic, natural, and thermoplastic elastomers with various conducting fillers such as metal nanoparticles, carbon nanotubes, and graphenes. The book explores the usefulness of elastomer composites in electronic applications and covers topics related to their chemical and physical properties, as well as their physics aspects. The presented elastomer composites have great potential for meeting the needs of emerging material applications, such as flexible and wearable devices. The book is structured by the type of elastomer, with each chapter describing a different elastomer system and its composites. While covering important fundamentals, the book is also focused on practical applications, discussing current concerns and challenges in the field of elastomer composites.

“Flexible and Wearable Electronics: Design and Fabrication Techniques” Book Review: The aim of this book is to provide a comprehensive guide to the latest advancements and techniques used in the recognition of flexible and wearable electronics. Divided into eleven sections, this book offers the latest research findings and trends related to the design, manufacturing processes and methodologies used in the realization of flexible and wearable devices. It discusses novel applications, existing challenges and future directions while exploring recent breakthroughs in wireless, flexible, fully printable and sensor technologies that are paving the way for the development of ubiquitous sensing capabilities such as “Smart Skins” and the Internet of Things (IoT).

“Wearable Sensors: Fundamentals, Implementation and Applications” Book Review: This comprehensive book delves into various aspects related to the development and usage of wearable sensors. It presents a cohesive summary and overview of wearable sensor technology, which is beneficial for professionals in industries and academic researchers alike. The book offers up-to-date information on the latest advancements in lightweight hardware, energy harvesting, signal processing, wireless communications, and networks. It also tackles practical issues involving smart fabrics, biomonitoring, and health informatics, as well as considerations for user-centric design, ethics, and safety. With this information package, readers can acquire a holistic understanding of wearable sensor technology, from the overview down to the specifics.

“Flexible and Wearable Electronics: Design and Fabrication Techniques” Book Review: The objective of this book is to provide a comprehensive guide on state-of-the-art technologies and methods utilized in the recognition of adaptable and wearable hardware. The book is structured into eleven parts, presenting the latest research findings and trends related to the design, manufacturing processes, and techniques employed in the realization of wearable and flexible devices. It also discusses novel applications, current challenges, and future directions, highlighting how recent advancements in wireless, flexible, fully printable, and sensor technologies are paving the way for the development of ubiquitous sensing capabilities such as “Smart Skins” and the Internet of Things (IoT).

“Flexible Robot Manipulators: Modulation, Simulation and control” Book Review: This book is essential reading for advanced students in the fields of advanced mechanics, mechatronics, and control engineering. It serves as a valuable reference source for research in areas of modeling, simulation, and control of dynamic flexible structures in general, and specifically for flexible robotic controllers. The book begins with an overview of flexible controllers and then presents various modeling and simulation techniques based on the Lagrange equation formulation, parametric approaches based on linear input/output models using system identification techniques, neuro-modeling approaches, and mathematical methods for dynamic representation using finite difference and finite element methods. Control methods are also discussed, including a range of open-loop and closed-loop control techniques based on classical and modern control methods such as neuro and iterative control, as well as a range of soft computing control methods based on fuzzy logic, neural networks, and evolutionary and bio-inspired optimization models.

“Design and Development of RFID and RFID enabled Sensors on Flexible Low Cost Substrates” Book Review: The book details the step-by-step development of radio frequency identification (RFID) and RFID-enabled sensors on flexible and low-cost substrates for UHF frequency bands. Through various examples of fully-functional building blocks, such as antenna design and production, integration with microcontrollers and ICs, power sources, and inkjet-printing techniques, the book illustrates the incremental impact of this approach in the fields of low-cost RFID and RFID-enabled sensors.

“Semiconductors and Nanomaterials for flexible technologies” Book Review: This book presents a comprehensive guide to creating high-quality films of one-dimensional semiconductor nanostructures on flexible substrates such as plastics. It also explores how these structures can be used as building blocks in the production of flexible devices, including electronics, optoelectronics, sensors, and power systems. In addition to covering engineering aspects, the book delves into the physics and chemistry underlying both the manufacturing process and the operation of these devices. The chapters are written by world-renowned experts from academia, national laboratories, and industry, who share their cutting-edge research findings and expertise in emerging areas.

“Sensors and Control System in Manufacturing” Book Review: This book presents proven approaches to effectively evaluate, select, and implement sensors and controls to ensure flawless manufacturing environments. Step-by-step instructions are provided for utilizing sensors to measure product parameters, regulate manufacturing processes, establish precision manufacturing systems, and oversee motion control. Numerous real-world examples are incorporated to showcase successful industrial applications.

“Flexible mems Thermal Sensors” Book Review: This book examines two distinct sensors used for monitoring intravascular flow based on convective heat transfer principles. Both sensors were created using MEMS (microelectromechanical systems) and semiconductor processing. The first sensor is a one-dimensional (1-D) flexible shear pressure sensor, manufactured using cutting-edge MEMS technology. Its primary advantages include flexibility, biocompatibility, and a small size. A novel 3-D heat flow sensor was then developed based on the previous flexible 1-D sensors. By utilizing computational fluid dynamics (CFD) analysis, the 3-D sensor has the potential to achieve a better measurement of shear stress distribution in the presence of time-varying blood flow, enabling a more accurate assessment of intravascular convective heat transfer.