Hardware technology of vision-based tactile sensor: A review

S Zhang, Z Chen, Y Gao, W Wan, J Shan… - IEEE Sensors …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
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 …

Visuotactile sensors with emphasis on gelsight sensor: A review

AC Abad, A Ranasinghe - IEEE Sensors Journal, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This review paper focuses on vision and touch-based sensors known as visuotactile. The
study of visuotactile sensation and perception became a multidisciplinary field of study by …

Gelslim 3.0: High-resolution measurement of shape, force and slip in a compact tactile-sensing finger

IH Taylor, S Dong, A Rodriguez - … International Conference on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This work presents a new version of tactile-sensing finger, GelSlim 3.0, which integrates the
ability to sense high-resolution shape, force, and slip in a more compact form factor than …

Cable manipulation with a tactile-reactive gripper

Y She, S Wang, S Dong, N Sunil… - … Journal of Robotics …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Cables are complex, high-dimensional, and dynamic objects. Standard approaches to
manipulate them often rely on conservative strategies that involve long series of very slow …

Tactile-rl for insertion: Generalization to objects of unknown geometry

S Dong, DK Jha, D Romeres, S Kim… - … on Robotics and …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Object insertion is a classic contact-rich manipulation task. The task remains challenging,
especially when considering general objects of unknown geometry, which significantly limits …

Swingbot: Learning physical features from in-hand tactile exploration for dynamic swing-up manipulation

C Wang, S Wang, B Romero, F Veiga… - 2020 IEEE/RSJ …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Several robot manipulation tasks are extremely sensitive to variations of the physical
properties of the manipulated objects. One such task is manipulating objects by using gravity …

Slip detection for grasp stabilization with a multifingered tactile robot hand

JW James, NF Lepora - IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Tactile sensing is used by humans when grasping to prevent us dropping objects. One key
facet of tactile sensing is slip detection, which allows a gripper to know when a grasp is …

Gelsight wedge: Measuring high-resolution 3d contact geometry with a compact robot finger

S Wang, Y She, B Romero… - 2021 IEEE International …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Vision-based tactile sensors have the potential to provide important contact geometry to
localize the objective with visual occlusion. However, it is challenging to measure high …

In-hand object localization using a novel high-resolution visuotactile sensor

S Cui, R Wang, J Hu, J Wei, S Wang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In-hand object localization and manipulation has always been a challenging task in robotic
community. In this article, we address this problem by vision-based tactile sensing with high …

Generation of gelsight tactile images for sim2real learning

DF Gomes, P Paoletti, S Luo - IEEE Robotics and Automation …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
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 …