Robotic tactile perception of object properties: A review

S Luo, J Bimbo, R Dahiya, H Liu - Mechatronics, 2017 - Elsevier
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 in dexterous robot hands

Z Kappassov, JA Corrales, V Perdereau - Robotics and Autonomous …, 2015 - Elsevier
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 …

Active inference and epistemic value

K Friston, F Rigoli, D Ognibene, C Mathys… - Cognitive …, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
We offer a formal treatment of choice behavior based on the premise that agents minimize
the expected free energy of future outcomes. Crucially, the negative free energy or quality of …

A soft magnetoelectric finger for robots' multidirectional tactile perception in non-visual recognition environments

Y Xu, S Zhang, S Li, Z Wu, Y Li, Z Li, X Chen… - npj Flexible …, 2024 - nature.com
Robotic fingers with multidirectional tactile perception are of great importance for the robotic
exploration of complex unknown space, especially in environments in which visualization is …

Visual–tactile fusion for object recognition

H Liu, Y Yu, F Sun, J Gu - IEEE Transactions on Automation …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The camera provides rich visual information regarding objects and becomes one of the most
mainstream sensors in the automation community. However, it is often difficult to be …

The curious robot: Learning visual representations via physical interactions

L Pinto, D Gandhi, Y Han, YL Park, A Gupta - Computer Vision–ECCV …, 2016 - Springer
What is the right supervisory signal to train visual representations? Current approaches in
computer vision use category labels from datasets such as ImageNet to train ConvNets …

Recent progress in tactile sensing and sensors for robotic manipulation: can we turn tactile sensing into vision?

A Yamaguchi, CG Atkeson - Advanced Robotics, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
This paper surveys recently published literature on tactile sensing in robotic manipulation to
understand effective strategies for using tactile sensing and the issues involved in tactile …

Learning to push by grasping: Using multiple tasks for effective learning

L Pinto, A Gupta - 2017 IEEE international conference on …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recently, end-to-end learning frameworks are gaining prevalence in the field of robot
control. These frameworks input states/images and directly predict the torques or the action …

Design of a flexible tactile sensor for classification of rigid and deformable objects

A Drimus, G Kootstra, A Bilberg, D Kragic - Robotics and Autonomous …, 2014 - Elsevier
For both humans and robots, tactile sensing is important for interaction with the environment:
it is the core sensing used for exploration and manipulation of objects. In this paper, we …

Single-grasp object classification and feature extraction with simple robot hands and tactile sensors

AJ Spiers, MV Liarokapis, B Calli… - IEEE transactions on …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Classical robotic approaches to tactile object identification often involve rigid mechanical
grippers, dense sensor arrays, and exploratory procedures (EPs). Though EPs are a natural …