Soft Acoustic Curvature Sensor: Design and Development

MS Sofla, H Golshanian… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This letter introduces a novel Soft Acoustic Curvature (SAC) sensor. SAC incorporates
integrated audio components and features an acoustic channel within a flexible structure. A …

Navigation and 3D Surface Reconstruction from Passive Whisker Sensing

MA Lin, H Li, C Xing, MR Cutkosky - arXiv preprint arXiv:2406.06038, 2024 - arxiv.org
Whiskers provide a way to sense surfaces in the immediate environment without disturbing
it. In this paper we present a method for using highly flexible, curved, passive whiskers …

Whisker-Inspired Tactile Sensing: A Sim2Real Approach for Precise Underwater Contact Tracking

H Li, C Xing, S Khan, M Zhong… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Aquatic mammals, such as pinnipeds, utilize their whiskers to detect and discriminate
objects and analyze water movements, inspiring the development of robotic whiskers for …