A review of tactile information: Perception and action through touch

Q Li, O Kroemer, Z Su, FF Veiga… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Tactile sensing is a key sensor modality for robots interacting with their surroundings. These
sensors provide a rich and diverse set of data signals that contain detailed information …

[HTML][HTML] Progress on flexible tactile sensors in robotic applications on objects properties recognition, manipulation and human-machine interactions

J Jin, S Wang, Z Zhang, D Mei, Y Wang - Soft Science, 2023 - oaepublish.com
The robotic with integrated tactile sensors can accurately perceive contact force, pressure,
vibration, temperature and other tactile stimuli. Flexible tactile sensing technologies have …

CNN-based methods for object recognition with high-resolution tactile sensors

JM Gandarias, AJ Garcia-Cerezo… - IEEE Sensors …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Novel high-resolution pressure-sensor arrays allow treating pressure readings as standard
images. Computer vision algorithms and methods such as convolutional neural networks …

3d shape perception from monocular vision, touch, and shape priors

S Wang, J Wu, X Sun, W Yuan… - 2018 IEEE/RSJ …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Perceiving accurate 3D object shape is important for robots to interact with the physical
world. Current research along this direction has been primarily relying on visual …

Tactile mapping and localization from high-resolution tactile imprints

M Bauza, O Canal, A Rodriguez - … International Conference on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This work studies the problem of shape reconstruction and object localization using a vision-
based tactile sensor, GelSlim. The main contributions are the recovery of local shapes from …

Shapemap 3-d: Efficient shape mapping through dense touch and vision

S Suresh, Z Si, JG Mangelson, W Yuan… - … on Robotics and …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Knowledge of 3-D object shape is of great importance to robot manipulation tasks, but may
not be readily available in unstructured environments. While vision is often occluded during …

Tactile slam: Real-time inference of shape and pose from planar pushing

S Suresh, M Bauza, KT Yu… - … on Robotics and …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Tactile perception is central to robot manipulation in unstructured environments. However, it
requires contact, and a mature implementation must infer object models while also …

3d shape reconstruction from vision and touch

E Smith, R Calandra, A Romero… - Advances in …, 2020 - proceedings.neurips.cc
When a toddler is presented a new toy, their instinctual behaviour is to pick it up and inspect
it with their hand and eyes in tandem, clearly searching over its surface to properly …

Multi-modal geometric learning for grasping and manipulation

D Watkins-Valls, J Varley, P Allen - … International conference on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This work provides an architecture that incorporates depth and tactile information to create
rich and accurate 3D models useful for robotic manipulation tasks. This is accomplished …

Tactile-based active object discrimination and target object search in an unknown workspace

M Kaboli, K Yao, D Feng, G Cheng - Autonomous Robots, 2019 - Springer
The tasks of exploring unknown workspaces and recognizing objects based on their
physical properties are challenging for autonomous robots. In this paper, we present …