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This paper describes the design of a multi-camera optical tactile sensor that provides information about the contact force distribution applied to its soft surface. This information is contained in the motion of spherical particles spread…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-06-24 Camill Trueeb , Carmelo Sferrazza , Raffaello D'Andrea

Compressive sensing (CS) is a promising technology for realizing energy-efficient wireless sensors for long-term health monitoring. However, conventional model-driven CS frameworks suffer from limited compression ratio and reconstruction…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-12-19 Kai Xu , Yixing Li , Fengbo Ren

Compressed sensing is a technique for recovering an unknown sparse signal from a small number of linear measurements. When the measurement matrix is random, the number of measurements required for perfect recovery exhibits a phase…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-12-30 Mateo Díaz , Mauricio Junca , Felipe Rincón , Mauricio Velasco

Compressive imaging is an emerging application of compressed sensing, devoted to acquisition, encoding and reconstruction of images using random projections as measurements. In this paper we propose a novel method to provide a scalable…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-10-07 Diego Valsesia , Enrico Magli

The biological skin enables animals to sense various stimuli. Extensive efforts have been made recently to develop smart skin-like sensors to extend the capabilities of biological skins; however, simultaneous sensing of several types of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Sho Shimadera , Kei Kitagawa , Koyo Sagehashi , Tomoaki Niiyama , Satoshi Sunada

Compressed sensing in MRI enables high subsampling factors while maintaining diagnostic image quality. This technique enables shortened scan durations and/or improved image resolution. Further, compressed sensing can increase the diagnostic…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-03-20 Joseph Y. Cheng , Feiyu Chen , Christopher Sandino , Morteza Mardani , John M. Pauly , Shreyas S. Vasanawala

As more robots are implemented for contact-rich tasks, tactile sensors are in increasing demand. For many circumstances, the contact is required to be compliant, and soft sensors are in need. This paper introduces a novelly designed soft…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-05-18 Wu-Te Yang , Zhian Kuang , Changhao Wang , Masayoshi Tomizuka

Whole-arm tactile feedback is crucial for robots to ensure safe physical interaction with their surroundings. This paper introduces CushSense, a fabric-based soft and stretchable tactile-sensing skin designed for physical human-robot…

Robots which interact with the physical world will benefit from a fine-grained tactile understanding of objects and surfaces. Additionally, for certain tasks, robots may need to know the haptic properties of an object before touching it. To…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-04-13 Yang Gao , Lisa Anne Hendricks , Katherine J. Kuchenbecker , Trevor Darrell

Tactile sensing is a essential for skilled manipulation and object perception, but existing devices are unable to capture mechanical signals in the full gamut of regimes that are important for human touch sensing, and are unable to emulate…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-08-23 Yitian Shao , Hui Hu , Yon Visell

The missing signal caused by the objects being occluded or an unstable sensor is a common challenge during data collection. Such missing signals will adversely affect the results obtained from the data, and this issue is observed more…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-07-17 Guanqun Cao , Jiaqi Jiang , Danushka Bollegala , Shan Luo

Camera-based tactile sensors provide robots with a high-performance tactile sensing approach for environment perception and dexterous manipulation. However, achieving comprehensive environmental perception still requires cooperation with…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Yueshi Dong , Jieji Ren , Zhenle Liu , Zhanxuan Peng , Zihao Yuan , Ningbin Zhang , Guoying Gu

We present Sparsh-skin, a pre-trained encoder for magnetic skin sensors distributed across the fingertips, phalanges, and palm of a dexterous robot hand. Magnetic tactile skins offer a flexible form factor for hand-wide coverage with fast…

The development of tactile sensing is expected to enhance robotic systems in handling complex objects like deformables or reflective materials. However, readily available industrial grippers generally lack tactile feedback, which has led…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-09-13 Remko Proesmans , Francis wyffels

We investigate how high-resolution tactile sensors can be utilized in combination with vision and depth sensing, to improve grasp stability prediction. Recent advances in simulating high-resolution tactile sensing, in particular the TACTO…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-06-14 Lachlan Chumbley , Morris Gu , Rhys Newbury , Jurgen Leitner , Akansel Cosgun

Tactile perception using vibration sensation helps robots recognize their environment's physical properties and perform complex tasks. A sliding motion is applied to target objects to generate tactile vibration data. However, situations…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-04-21 Naoto Komeno , Takamitsu Matsubara

This paper deals with the Compressive Sensing implementation in the Face Recognition problem. Compressive Sensing is new approach in signal processing with a single goal to recover signal from small set of available samples. Compressive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-15 Slavko Kovacevic , Vuko Djaletic , Jelena Vukovic

This paper proposes a novel framework for utilizing skin sensors as a new operation interface of complex robots. The skin sensors employed in this study possess the capability to quantify multimodal tactile information at multiple contact…

Conventional industrial robots often use two-fingered grippers or suction cups to manipulate objects or interact with the world. Because of their simplified design, they are unable to reproduce the dexterity of human hands when manipulating…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Jana Egli , Benedek Forrai , Thomas Buchner , Jiangtao Su , Xiaodong Chen , Robert K. Katzschmann

In the human hand, high-density contact information provided by afferent neurons is essential for many human grasping and manipulation capabilities. In contrast, robotic tactile sensors, including the state-of-the-art SynTouch BioTac, are…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-01-15 Yashraj S. Narang , Balakumar Sundaralingam , Karl Van Wyk , Arsalan Mousavian , Dieter Fox