Embedded Intelligence at the Edge MEMS Sensors for Robotic Perception and Control

Embedded Intelligence at the Edge: MEMS Sensors for Robotic Perception and Control offers a rigorous, systems-level exploration of how microscale sensing enables robots to perceive, interpret, and act in complex real-world environments. Rather than treating MEMS devices as isolated components, this book presents them as the architectural foundation of modern robotic intelligence-linking sensing, embedded computation, communication, and control into a unified design philosophy.
Across ten structured chapters, Walid Saleh examines the core sensing domains that shape robotic capability, including thermal and mechanical sensing, tactile intelligence and electronic skin, humidity and environmental monitoring, gas and chemical sensing, flow and hydrodynamic perception, inertial measurement, multimodal integration, packaging, signal integrity, reliability, and AI-enhanced sensing at the edge.
The book shows how robotic performance depends not only on sensor sensitivity, but also on calibration, drift compensation, system architecture, packaging strategy, fault tolerance, and trustworthy interpretation under uncertainty. It bridges fabrication principles and transduction mechanisms with practical design insight for real robotic systems operating in industrial, medical, mobile, underwater, and human-centered domains.
Ideal for robotics engineers, graduate students, researchers, and professionals in mechatronics, embedded systems, intelligent automation, and control engineering, this volume provides a clear and technically grounded roadmap for building robots that sense richly, decide locally, and act safely.