A vision-based tactile sensor (VBTS) is an innovative optical sensor widely applied in robotic
perception. The VBTS consists of a contact module, an illumination module, and a camera …

Most current works in Sim2Real learning for robotic manipulation tasks leverage camera
vision that may be significantly occluded by robot hands during the manipulation. Tactile …

Simulation is widely applied in robotics research to save time and resources. There have
been several works to simulate optical tactile sensors that leverage either a smoothing …

Tactile sensing is an essential capability for robots performing manipulation tasks. In this
paper, we introduce a framework to build a monocular visual-tactile sensor for robotic …

Picking up transparent objects is still a challenging task for robots. The visual properties of
transparent objects such as reflection and refraction make the current grasping methods that …

Recently simulation methods have been developed for optical tactile sensors to enable the
Sim2Real learning, ie, first training models in simulation before deploying them on a real …

Recently, several morphologies, each with its advantages, have been proposed for the\textit
{GelSight} high-resolution tactile sensors. However, existing simulation methods are limited …

Visual-tactile sensors that use a camera to capture the deformation of a soft gel layer have
become popular in recent years. However, these sensors have a limited receptive field …

Tactile sensors, which provide information about the physical properties of objects, are an
essential component of robotic systems. The visuotactile sensing technology with the merits …

The sense of touch plays a key role in enabling humans to understand and interact with
surrounding environments. For robots, tactile sensing is also irreplaceable. While interacting …