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 …

Feature sensing and robotic grasping of objects with uncertain information: A review

C Wang, X Zhang, X Zang, Y Liu, G Ding, W Yin, J Zhao - Sensors, 2020 - mdpi.com
As there come to be more applications of intelligent robots, their task object is becoming
more varied. However, it is still a challenge for a robot to handle unfamiliar objects. We …

Active 3D shape reconstruction from vision and touch

E Smith, D Meger, L Pineda… - Advances in …, 2021 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Humans build 3D understandings of the world through active object exploration, using jointly
their senses of vision and touch. However, in 3D shape reconstruction, most recent progress …

Active multiobject exploration and recognition via tactile whiskers

C Xiao, S Xu, W Wu, J Wachs - IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Robotic exploration under uncertain environments is challenging when optical information is
not available. In this article, we propose an autonomous solution of exploring an unknown …

Visuo-haptic grasping of unknown objects based on gaussian process implicit surfaces and deep learning

S Ottenhaus, D Renninghoff, R Grimm… - 2019 IEEE-RAS 19th …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Grasping unknown objects is a challenging task for humanoid robots, as planning and
execution have to cope with noisy sensor data. This work presents a framework, which …

Active multi-contact continuous tactile exploration with Gaussian process differential entropy

D Driess, D Hennes, M Toussaint - … International Conference on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In the present work, we propose an active tactile exploration framework to obtain a surface
model of an unknown object utilizing multiple contacts simultaneously. To incorporate these …

Anemoi: A Low-cost Sensorless Indoor Drone System for Automatic Mapping of 3D Airflow Fields

S Xia, M Zhao, C Adhivarahan, K Hou, Y Chen… - Proceedings of the 29th …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Mapping 3D airflow fields is important for many HVAC, industrial, medical, and home
applications. However, current approaches are expensive and time-consuming. We present …

AcTExplore: Active Tactile Exploration on Unknown Objects

AH Shahidzadeh, SJ Yoo, P Mantripragada… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Tactile exploration plays a crucial role in understanding object structures for fundamental
robotics tasks such as grasping and manipulation. However, efficiently exploring such …

Using machine learning for material detection with capacitive proximity sensors

Y Ding, H Kisner, T Kong… - 2020 IEEE/RSJ …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The ability of detecting materials plays an important role in robotic applications. The robot
can incorporate the information from contactless material detection and adapt its behavior in …

Embodied tactile perception and learning

H Liu, D Guo, F Sun, W Yang… - Brain Science …, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
Various living creatures exhibit embodiment intelligence, which is reflected by a
collaborative interaction of the brain, body, and environment. The actual behavior of …