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Multilayer stacks of twisted optical metasurfaces are considered as a prospective platform for chiral nanophotonic devices. Such structures are primarily used for the realization of circularly polarized light sources, artificial optical…

Traditional methods for achieving high localization accuracy on tactile sensors usually involve a matrix of miniaturized individual sensors distributed on the area of interest. This approach usually comes at a price of increased complexity…

Moir\'e patterns arise from spectral aliasing between display pixel lattices and camera sensor grids, manifesting as anisotropic, multi-scale artifacts that pose significant challenges for digital image demoir\'eing. We propose Moir\'eNet,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Shuwei Guo , Simin Luan , Yan Ke , Zeyd Boukhers , John See , Cong Yang

Moir\'e superlattice in two-dimensional (2D) materials provides a powerful platform to engineer emergent electronic states, yet the construction of moir\'e superlattices remains lab-scale, involving much trial and error and with little…

Robotic in-hand manipulation requires reliable object-motion tracking under frequent visual occlusion, yet low-texture visuotactile images provide few stable correspondences for conventional image- or geometry-matching methods. This paper…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Zhongyuan Liao , Junzhe Wang , Qingyang Liu , Zhenmin Huang , Jun Ma , Yi Cai , Fei Meng , Haobo Liang , Michael Yu Wang

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

We investigate a theoretical model for a dynamic Moir\'e grating which is capable of producing slow and stopped light with improved performance when compared with a static Moir\'e grating. A Moir\'e grating superimposes two grating periods…

Optics · Physics 2021-07-14 Thomas E. Maybour , Devin H. Smith , Peter Horak

As automation technologies advance, the need for compact and multi-modal sensors in robotic applications is growing. To address this demand, we introduce CompdVision, a novel sensor that employs a compound-eye imaging system to combine…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Lifan Luo , Boyang Zhang , Zhijie Peng , Yik Kin Cheung , Guanlan Zhang , Zhigang Li , Michael Yu Wang , Hongyu Yu

In this paper, an electromagnetic sensor which can operate simultaneously in capacitive and inductive modalities with sensitivities to permittivity, conductivity, and permeability is developed, and a novel measurement strategy is proposed…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-05-30 Jorge R. Salas Avila , Kin Yau How , Mingyang Lu , Wuliang Yin

The creation of moir\'e patterns in crystalline solids is a powerful approach to manipulate their electronic properties, which are fundamentally influenced by periodic potential landscapes. In 2D materials, a moir\'e pattern with a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-06-19 Kyle L. Seyler , Pasqual Rivera , Hongyi Yu , Nathan P. Wilson , Essance L. Ray , David Mandrus , Jiaqiang Yan , Wang Yao , Xiaodong Xu

The integration of visual-tactile stimulus is common while humans performing daily tasks. In contrast, using unimodal visual or tactile perception limits the perceivable dimensionality of a subject. However, it remains a challenge to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-02-19 Jet-Tsyn Lee , Danushka Bollegala , Shan Luo

Combining 3D vision with tactile sensing could unlock a greater level of dexterity for robots and improve several manipulation tasks. However, obtaining a close-up 3D view of the location where manipulation contacts occur can be…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Etienne Roberge , Guillaume Fornes , Jean-Philippe Roberge

Robotic manipulation tasks such as inserting a key into a lock or plugging a USB device into a port can fail when visual perception is insufficient to detect misalignment. In these situations, touch sensing is crucial for the robot to…

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Collocated tactile sensing is a fundamental enabling technology for dexterous manipulation. However, deformable sensors introduce complex dynamics between the robot, grasped object, and environment that must be considered for fine…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-09-28 Miquel Oller , Mireia Planas , Dmitry Berenson , Nima Fazeli

Exotic collective phenomena emerge when bosons strongly interact within a lattice. However, creating a robust and tunable solid-state platform to explore such phenomena has been elusive. Dual moir\'e systems$-$compromising two…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-17 Amine Ben Mhenni , Elif Çetiner , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Jonathan J. Finley , Nathan P. Wilson

Collaborative robots stand to have an immense impact on both human welfare in domestic service applications and industrial superiority in advanced manufacturing with dexterous assembly. The outstanding challenge is providing robotic…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Won Kyung Do , Bianca Jurewicz , Monroe Kennedy

Atomically-thin moir\'e superlattices offer an optically accessible platform for interacting bosons, where strong onsite repulsion $U_{xx}$ suppresses double occupancy and supports excitonic Mott states at unit filling. However, moir\'e…

Vision based and event based tactile sensors are important in robotic manipulation research. However, they suffer from a fundamental tradeoff: vision based sensors have low sampling rates, while event based sensors are prone to drift during…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-19 Yihang Li , Yijin Chen , Junkai Xu , Na Ningguta , Peter B. Shull , Shuo Jiang , Bin He

Moir\'e lattices created in two-dimensional heterostructures exhibit rich many-body physics of interacting electrons and excitons and, at the same time, suggest promising optoelectronic applications. Here, we study the cooperative radiance…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-14 Jan Kumlin , Ajit Srivastava , Thomas Pohl

In recent years twisted bi-layers of 2D materials became very popular in the field due to the possibility to totally change their electronic properties by simple rotation. At the same time, in the wide field of photonic crystals, this idea…