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Vision-based tactile sensors (VBTS) face a fundamental trade-off in marker and markerless design on the tactile skin: opaque ink markers enable measurement of force and tangential displacement but completely occlude geometric features…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Oluwatimilehin Tijani , Zhuo Chen , Jiankang Deng , Shan Luo

Tactile sensors have been used for force estimation in the past, especially Vision-Based Tactile Sensors (VBTS) have recently become a new trend due to their high spatial resolution and low cost. In this work, we have designed and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Julio Castaño-Amoros , Pablo Gil

This paper describes a system for transmitting softness and the motion of shape or contact area sensation using a vision based tactile sensor and a tactile display in which mechanical and electrical stimulation are combined. A unit of…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-11-11 Hikaru Kukita , Hiroyuki Kajimoto , Yem Vibol

Tactile sensing is crucial for achieving human-level robotic capabilities in manipulation tasks. As a promising solution, Vision-Based Tactile Sensors (VBTSs) offer high spatial resolution and cost-effectiveness, but present unique…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-15 Yuyang Li , Wenxin Du , Chang Yu , Puhao Li , Zihang Zhao , Tengyu Liu , Chenfanfu Jiang , Yixin Zhu , Siyuan Huang

High-fidelity visuo-tactile sensing is important for precise robotic manipulation. However, most vision-based tactile sensors face a fundamental trade-off: opaque coatings enable tactile sensing but block pre-contact vision. To address…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Zhixian Hu , Zhengtong Xu , Sheeraz Athar , Juan Wachs , Yu She

Accurate robotic control over interactions with the environment is fundamentally grounded in understanding tactile contacts. In this paper, we introduce MagicTac, a novel high-resolution grid-based tactile sensor. This sensor employs a 3D…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-02-05 Wen Fan , Haoran Li , Dandan Zhang

In conjunction with huge recent progress in camera and computer vision technology, camera-based sensors have increasingly shown considerable promise in relation to tactile sensing. In comparison to competing technologies (be they resistive,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-07 Kaspar Althoefer , Yonggen Ling , Wanlin Li , Xinyuan Qian , Wang Wei Lee , Peng Qi

Vision-based tactile sensors have gained extensive attention in the robotics community. The sensors are highly expected to be capable of extracting contact information i.e. haptic information during in-hand manipulation. This nature of…

For both humans and robots, the sense of touch, known as tactile sensing, is critical for performing contact-rich manipulation tasks. Three key challenges in robotic tactile sensing are 1) interpreting sensor signals, 2) generating sensor…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Iretiayo Akinola , Jie Xu , Jan Carius , Dieter Fox , Yashraj Narang

Contact-rich manipulation in unstructured environments demands precise, multimodal perception to enable robust and adaptive control. Vision-based tactile sensors (VBTSs) have emerged as an effective solution; however, conventional VBTSs…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Wen Fan , Haoran Li , Dandan Zhang

The importance of force perception in interacting with the environment was proven years ago. However, it is still a challenge to measure the contact force distribution accurately in real-time. In order to break through this predicament, we…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Lunwei Zhang , Yue Wang , Yao Jiang

Vision-based tactile sensors (VBTS) have gained widespread application in robotic hands, grippers and prosthetics due to their high spatial resolution, low manufacturing costs, and ease of customization. While VBTSs have common design…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Haoran Li , Yijiong Lin , Chenghua Lu , Max Yang , Efi Psomopoulou , Nathan F Lepora

In general, robotic dexterous hands are equipped with various sensors for acquiring multimodal contact information such as position, force, and pose of the grasped object. This multi-sensor-based design adds complexity to the robotic…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-08-12 Weiliang Xu , Guoyuan Zhou , Yuanzhi Zhou , Zhibin Zou , Jiali Wang , Wenfeng Wu , Xinming Li

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 improve robot performance in manipulation and grasping. Here we…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-06-01 Guanlan Zhang , Yipai Du , Hongyu Yu , Michael Yu Wang

Tactile sensors, which provide information about the physical properties of objects, are an essential component of robotic systems. The visuotactile sensing technology with the merits of high resolution and low cost has facilitated the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Shoujie Li , Zihan Wang , Changsheng Wu , Xiang Li , Shan Luo , Bin Fang , Fuchun Sun , Xiao-Ping Zhang , Wenbo Ding

Magnetic-based tactile sensors (MBTS) combine the advantages of compact design and high-frequency operation but suffer from limited spatial resolution due to their sparse taxel arrays. This paper proposes SuperMag, a tactile shape…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Peiyao Hou , Danning Sun , Meng Wang , Yuzhe Huang , Zeyu Zhang , Hangxin Liu , Wanlin Li , Ziyuan Jiao

In robotic manipulation, tactile sensors are indispensable, especially when dealing with soft objects, objects of varying dimensions, or those out of the robot's direct line of sight. Traditional tactile sensors often grapple with…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Abraham George , Yibo Chen , Atharva Dikshit , Peter Pak , Amir Barati Farimani

Tactile sensing plays a key role in robotic manipulation, particularly in tasks like surface inspection. Successful execution requires maintaining contact while accurately tracking object contours. In this work, we propose a Vision-Based…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Edison Velasco-Sanchez , Luis F. Recalde , Guanrui Li , Pablo Gil

The perception and recognition of the surroundings is one of the essential tasks for a robot. With preliminary knowledge about a target object, it can perform various manipulation tasks such as rolling motion, palpation, and force control.…

Humans rely on touch and tactile sensing for a lot of dexterous manipulation tasks. Our tactile sensing provides us with a lot of information regarding contact formations as well as geometric information about objects during any…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Kei Ota , Devesh K. Jha , Hsiao-Yu Tung , Joshua B. Tenenbaum
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