Tactile sensing technology is crucial for soft grippers. Soft grippers equipped with intelligent
tactile sensing systems based on various sensors can interact safely with the unstructured …

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 …

A tactile image sensor employing a camera is capable of obtaining rich tactile information
through image sequences with high spatial resolution. There have been many studies on …

The vision-based tactile sensor has been proven to be a promising device for sensing tactile
information. Among such sensors, the marker displacement method (MDM) is the most …

Manipulation in cluttered environments like homes requires stable grasps, precise
placement and robustness against external contact. Towards addressing these challenges …

The emerging applications of collaborative robots (cobots) are spilling out from product
manufactories to service industries for human care, such as patient care for combating the …

The empirical success of derivative-free methods in reinforcement learning for planning
through contact seems at odds with the perceived fragility of classical gradient-based …

In this article, a six-step approach is proposed to simulate the grasp and evaluate the grasp
quality for a versatile vacuum gripper by tracking the deformation and force-torque wrench of …

Tactile sensing plays a pivotal role in achieving precise physical manipulation tasks and
extracting vital physical features. This comprehensive review paper presents an in-depth …

Tactile sensing is an essential perception for robots to complete dexterous tasks. As a
promising tactile sensing technique, vision-based tactile sensors have been developed to …