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Compressed sensing has a wide range of applications that include error correction, imaging, radar and many more. Given a sparse signal in a high dimensional space, one wishes to reconstruct that signal accurately and efficiently from a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2009-05-28 Deanna Needell

Tactile sensing holds great promise for enhancing manipulation precision and versatility, but its adoption in robotic hands remains limited due to high sensor costs, manufacturing and integration challenges, and difficulties in extracting…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Zhuowei Xu , Zilin Si , Kevin Zhang , Oliver Kroemer , Zeynep Temel

The development of tactile sensing and its fusion with computer vision is expected to enhance robotic systems in handling complex tasks like deformable object manipulation. However, readily available industrial grippers typically lack…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-06-12 Remko Proesmans , Francis wyffels

Distributed acoustic sensing (DAS) is a novel enabling technology that can turn existing fibre optic networks to distributed acoustic sensors. However, it faces the challenges of transmitting, storing, and processing massive streams of data…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-02 Xingliang Shen , Huan Wu , Kun Zhu , Yujia Li , Hua Zheng , Jialong Li , Liyang Shao , Perry Ping Shum , Chao Lu

Compressed sensing (CS) exploits the sparsity of a signal in order to integrate acquisition and compression. CS theory enables exact reconstruction of a sparse signal from relatively few linear measurements via a suitable nonlinear…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-09-04 Shmuel Friedland , Qun Li , Dan Schonfeld , Edgar A. Bernal

The task of compressed sensing is to recover a sparse vector from a small number of linear and non-adaptive measurements, and the problem of finding a suitable measurement matrix is very important in this field. While most recent works…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-12-18 Yi-Zheng Fan , Tao Huang , Ming Zhu

Let $x\in\mathbb{C}^n$ be a spectrally sparse signal consisting of $r$ complex sinusoids with or without damping. We consider the spectral compressed sensing problem, which is about reconstructing $x$ from its partial revealed entries. By…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-08-01 Jian-Feng Cai , Tianming Wang , Ke Wei

Compressed sensing (CS) enables people to acquire the compressed measurements directly and recover sparse or compressible signals faithfully even when the sampling rate is much lower than the Nyquist rate. However, the pure random sensing…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-24 Kezhi Li , Shuang Cong

Robotic manipulation of cloth has applications ranging from fabrics manufacturing to handling blankets and laundry. Cloth manipulation is challenging for robots largely due to their high degrees of freedom, complex dynamics, and severe…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-07-25 Sashank Tirumala , Thomas Weng , Daniel Seita , Oliver Kroemer , Zeynep Temel , David Held

Object properties perceived through the tactile sense, such as weight, friction, and slip, greatly influence motor control during manipulation tasks. However, the provision of tactile information during robotic training in…

In compressed sensing one measures sparse signals directly in a compressed form via a linear transform and then reconstructs the original signal. However, it is often the case that the linear transform itself is known only approximately, a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-11-13 Florent Krzakala , Marc Mézard , Lenka Zdeborová

Compressed sensing is a novel technique where one can recover sparse signals from the undersampled measurements. In this paper, a $K \times N$ measurement matrix for compressed sensing is deterministically constructed via multiplicative…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-11-12 Nam Yul Yu

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 sensing offers complementary information to vision and can…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Daniel Fernandes Gomes , Paolo Paoletti , Shan Luo

Inspired by the human ability to perform complex manipulation in the complete absence of vision (like retrieving an object from a pocket), the robotic manipulation field is motivated to develop new methods for tactile-based object…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-07-22 Jingxi Xu , Shuran Song , Matei Ciocarlie

Electron tomography has achieved higher resolution and quality at reduced doses with recent advances in compressed sensing. Compressed sensing (CS) theory exploits the inherent sparse signal structure to efficiently reconstruct…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-12-02 Jonathan Schwartz , Huihuo Zheng , Marcus Hanwell , Yi Jiang , Robert Hovden

General robot manipulation requires the handling of previously unseen objects. Learning a physically accurate model at test time can provide significant benefits in data efficiency, predictability, and reuse between tasks. Tactile sensing…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Ethan K. Gordon , Bruke Baraki , Hien Bui , Michael Posa

Inspired by humans' ability to perceive the surface texture of unfamiliar objects without relying on vision, the sense of touch can play a crucial role in robots exploring the environment, particularly in scenes where vision is difficult to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-01-23 Junyuan Lu , Zeyu Wan , Yu Zhang

Compressed sensing is a novel research area, which was introduced in 2006, and since then has already become a key concept in various areas of applied mathematics, computer science, and electrical engineering. It surprisingly predicts that…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-08-29 Gitta Kutyniok

We present a computationally-efficient method for recovering sparse signals from a series of noisy observations, known as the problem of compressed sensing (CS). CS theory requires solving a convex constrained minimization problem. We…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-06-22 Avishy Carmi , Pini Gurfil

Tactile sensing and the manipulation of delicate objects are critical challenges in robotics. This study presents a vision-based magnetic-actuated whisker array sensor that integrates these functions. The sensor features eight whiskers…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Zhixian Hu , Juan Wachs , Yu She