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Flexible electrical impedance tomography (EIT) offers a promising alternative to traditional tactile sensing approaches, enabling low-cost, scalable, and deformable sensor designs. Here, we propose an optimized lattice-structured flexible…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Huazhi Dong , Sihao Teng , Xu Han , Xiaopeng Wu , Francesco Giorgio-Serchi , Yunjie Yang

Electrical Impedance Tomography (EIT)-based tactile sensors offer cost-effective and scalable solutions for robotic sensing, especially promising for soft robots. However a major issue of EIT-based tactile sensors when applied in highly…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Huazhi Dong , Xiaopeng Wu , Delin Hu , Zhe Liu , Francesco Giorgio-Serchi , Yunjie Yang

Electrical Impedance Tomography (EIT) offers a promising solution for distributed tactile sensing with minimal wiring and full-surface coverage in robotic applications. However, EIT-based tactile sensors face significant challenges during…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Haofeng Chen , Bedrich Himmel , Bin Li , Xiaojie Wang , Matej Hoffmann

Flexible electrical impedance tomography (EIT) is an emerging technology for tactile sensing in human-machine interfaces (HMI). It offers a unique alternative to traditional array-based tactile sensors with its flexible, scalable, and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-21 Huazhi Dong , Sihao Teng , Xiaopeng Wu , Xu Han , Francesco Giorgio-Serchi , Yunjie Yang

We present a hybrid robotic skin that combines electrical impedance tomography (EIT) with pneumatic tactile sensing to improve force reconstruction capability. The developed robotic skin is fabricated entirely by 3D printing and spray…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Junhwi Cho , Sunggyu Bae , Junghyeon Ma , Hyosang Lee , Jung Kim , Kyungseo Park

Electrical impedance tomography (EIT) provides an attractive solution for large-area tactile sensing due to its minimal wiring and shape flexibility, but its nonlinear inverse problem often leads to severe artifacts and inaccurate contact…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Xuanxuan Yang , Xiuyang Zhang , Haofeng Chen , Gang Ma , Xiaojie Wang

Tactile skins based on Electrical Impedance Tomography (EIT) enable large-area contact localization with few electrodes, but suffer from nonuniform sensitivity that limits force estimation accuracy. This work introduces a dual-channel…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Haofeng Chen , Jiri Kubik , Bedrich Himmel , Matej Hoffmann , Hyosang Lee

Electrical Impedance Tomography (EIT) is a powerful imaging technique with diverse applications, e.g., medical diagnosis, industrial monitoring, and environmental studies. The EIT inverse problem is about inferring the internal conductivity…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Derick Nganyu Tanyu , Jianfeng Ning , Andreas Hauptmann , Bangti Jin , Peter Maass

Electrical Impedance Tomography (EIT) is a powerful imaging modality widely used in medical diagnostics, industrial monitoring, and environmental studies. The EIT inverse problem is about inferring the internal conductivity distribution of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-11 Alexander Denker , Fabio Margotti , Jianfeng Ning , Kim Knudsen , Derick Nganyu Tanyu , Bangti Jin , Andreas Hauptmann , Peter Maass

Enabling dexterous manipulation and safe human-robot interaction, soft robots are widely used in numerous surgical applications. One of the complications associated with using soft robots in surgical applications is reconstructing their…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-04-26 Amirhosein Alian , George Mylonas , James Avery

Tactile sensors are increasingly integrated into dexterous robotic manipulators to enhance contact perception. However, learning manipulation policies that rely on tactile sensing remains challenging, primarily due to the trade-off between…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Zhe Xu , Feiyu Zhao , Xiyan Huang , Chenxi Xiao

Tactile sensing is critical for robotic grasping and manipulation of objects under visual occlusion. However, in contrast to simulations of robot arms and cameras, current simulations of tactile sensors have limited accuracy, speed, and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-04-01 Yashraj Narang , Balakumar Sundaralingam , Miles Macklin , Arsalan Mousavian , Dieter Fox

Electrical impedance tomography (EIT) is a non-invasive imaging technique, capable of reconstructing images of the electrical conductivity of tissues and materials. It is popular in diverse application areas, from medical imaging to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Shuaikai Shi , Ruiyuan Kang , Panos Liatsis

Soft robotic systems offer benefits over traditional rigid systems through reduced contact trauma with soft tissues and by enabling access through tortuous paths in minimally invasive surgery. However, the inherent deformability of soft…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-05-04 James Avery , Mark Runciman , Ara Darzi , George P. Mylonas

Tactile sensing plays an important role in robotic perception and manipulation tasks. To overcome the real-world limitations of data collection, simulating tactile response in a virtual environment comes as a desirable direction of robotic…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-08-21 Yikai Wang , Wenbing Huang , Bin Fang , Fuchun Sun , Chang Li

Tactile sensing is a crucial perception mode for robots and human amputees in need of controlling a prosthetic device. Today robotic and prosthetic systems are still missing the important feature of accurate tactile sensing. This lack is…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Xiaying Wang , Fabian Geiger , Vlad Niculescu , Michele Magno , Luca Benini

Electrical Impedance Tomography (EIT) provides a non-invasive, portable imaging modality with significant potential in medical and industrial applications. Despite its advantages, EIT encounters two primary challenges: the ill-posed nature…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-29 Chuyu Wang , Huiting Deng , Dong Liu

Deep learning has been widely employed to solve the Electrical Impedance Tomography (EIT) image reconstruction problem. Most existing physical model-based and learning-based approaches focus on 2D EIT image reconstruction. However, when…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-01 Zhaoguang Yi , Zhou Chen , Yunjie Yang

Increasing the performance of tactile sensing in robots enables versatile, in-hand manipulation. Vision-based tactile sensors have been widely used as rich tactile feedback has been shown to be correlated with increased performance in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-03-10 Won Kyung Do , Monroe Kennedy

The objective of electrical impedance tomography (EIT) is to reconstruct the internal conductivity of a physical body based on current and voltage measurements at the boundary of the body. In many medical applications the exact shape of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-10-25 J. P. Agnelli , V. Kolehmainen , M. Lassas , P. Ola , S. Siltanen
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