BubbleTouch: A Quasi-Static Tactile Skin Simulator

Brayden Hollis; Stacy Patterson; Jinda Cui; Jeff Trinkle

BubbleTouch: A Quasi-Static Tactile Skin Simulator

Robotics 2018-09-26 v1

Authors: Brayden Hollis , Stacy Patterson , Jinda Cui , Jeff Trinkle

Abstract

We present BubbleTouch, an open source quasi-static simulator for robotic tactile skins. BubbleTouch can be used to simulate contact with a robot's tactile skin patches as it interacts with humans and objects. The simulator creates detailed traces of contact forces that can be used in experiments in tactile contact activities. We summarize the design of BubbleTouch and highlight our recent work that uses BubbleTouch for experiments with tactile object recognition.

Keywords

tactile sensing haptic interaction

Cite

@article{arxiv.1809.09153,
  title  = {BubbleTouch: A Quasi-Static Tactile Skin Simulator},
  author = {Brayden Hollis and Stacy Patterson and Jinda Cui and Jeff Trinkle},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1809.09153},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

Presented at AI-HRI AAAI-FSS, 2018 (arXiv:1809.06606)

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