ABSTRACT
Sensors and actuators are key technologies to develop industrial products and to achieve social innovation. In particular, intelligent sensor applications are important to improve system reliability and safety. To achieve the sophisticated and advanced system, because the compromise among the information processing and the regulating system of each node through the network of sensors and actuators becomes so important, it is necessary to develop a new and emerging research area of sensors and actuators technology. The key issues are summarized as: advanced vision-based control application, advanced tactile sensing, advanced electroencephalography, advanced human motion sensing, and advanced approaches for human motion detection. The chapter describes the techniques for tactile sensors. It describes the classification of tactile sensing techniques followed by descriptions of techniques in each classification. The chapter illustrates human preference detection by simple electroencephalography.
