Touch sensing can help robots understand their surrounding environment, and in particular
the objects they interact with. To this end, roboticists have, in the last few decades …

Tactile sensing is an essential element of autonomous dexterous robot hand manipulation. It
provides information about forces of interaction and surface properties at points of contact …

During social interaction humans extract important information from tactile stimuli that
enriches their understanding of the interaction. This process depends, however, not only on …

Electrical impedance tomography (EIT) is a nondestructive imaging technique used to
estimate the internal conductivity distribution of a conductive domain by taking potential …

Using a tactile array sensor to recognize an object often requires multiple touches at
different positions. This process is prone to move or rotate the object, which inevitably …

Recent advances in the field of intelligent robotic manipulation pursue providing robotic
hands with touch sensitivity. Haptic perception encompasses the sensing modalities …

Texture recognition is important for robots to discern the characteristics of the object surface
and adjust grasping and manipulation strategies accordingly. It is still challenging to develop …

We introduce Deep Thermal Imaging, a new approach for close-range automatic recognition
of materials to enhance the understanding of people and ubiquitous technologies of their …

Non-geometric hazards like sinkage and slipping, correlated to terrain categories, have an
apparent effect on the locomotion of legged robots. Tactile-based terrain classification is a …

In this work, we propose a framework to deal with cross-modal visuo-tactile object
recognition. By cross-modal visuo-tactile object recognition, we mean that the object …