KAIST Cho Seong-ho and Seoul National University Professor Ko Seung-hwan published in an international journal
“Expected to be widely used in virtual reality and telemedicine”
An international research team including researchers from Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) and Seoul National University succeeded in developing the world’s first intelligent ‘electronic skin’.
The Ministry of Science and ICT, a joint research team led by Professor Jo Seong-ho of the Department of Computer Science at KAIST, Professor Seung-hwan Ko of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Seoul National University, and Professor Zhenan Bao of Stanford University in the U.S., published this achievement in Nature Electronics, an international journal in the field of electricity and electronics. It was announced that the day was published.
Electronic skin is a flexible and stretchable form of a hard electronic device like skin. When attached to human skin, the movement of the human body can be measured, so it can be used for realizing virtual reality.
However, the equipment developed so far is inconvenient because it is large and inflexible, and it is difficult to actually use it because it is structurally very complex.
To overcome these limitations, the research team applied a new method of directly printing nanometer-scale conductive mesh on the user’s hand.
The net mesh is characterized by maintaining its conductivity even if it is stretched or bent.
As a result of the application, the electrical signal was observed as the conductive net stretched according to the user’s movement, and the obtained information was transmitted wirelessly through the Bluetooth communication device.
Afterwards, the research team made the artificial intelligence distinguish different hand movements through the process of comparing and learning the various types of electrical signals transmitted.
Accordingly, it is possible to perform various tasks in a virtual space by repeating a specific motion only a few times.
For example, it was possible to implement various virtual reality platform technologies, such as being able to input letters only with hand gestures without a keyboard and making the shape of an object appear on the screen just by rubbing an arbitrary object.
Professor Cho and Professor Koh said, “This research result is the first case of combining electronic skin with the latest artificial intelligence technology. ), telemedicine, and robotics,” he explained.
The Ministry of Science and ICT said, “The technology implemented for the first time in the world by the research team is expected to be widely used in the field of virtual reality and telemedicine in the future.”
/yunhap news
