Live Demonstration: Electrotactile feedback from an electronic skin through flexible electrode matrix

Closing the prosthesis control loop by providing tactile sensory feedback to the user is a key point in research on active prosthetics as well as an often cited requirement of the prosthesis users. The live demo system includes: 1) electronic skin (e -skin) including a matrix of 64 sensing elements (taxels), 2) interface electronics for signal conditioning and data acquisition, 3) fully programmable multichannel electrotactile stimulator connected to flexible electrode matrices, and 4) host laptop PC which runs the online control loop implemented in Matlab.