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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

Conventional frame-based camera is not able to meet the demand of rapid reaction for real-time applications, while the emerging dynamic vision sensor (DVS) can realize high speed capturing for moving objects. However, to achieve visual…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-23 Lin Zhu , Siwei Dong , Tiejun Huang , Yonghong Tian

Vision-based tactile sensors have recently become popular due to their combination of low cost, very high spatial resolution, and ease of integration using widely available miniature cameras. The associated field of view and focal length,…

Tactile sensing is important for robots to perceive the world as it captures the texture and hardness of the object in contact and is robust to illumination and colour variances. However, due to the limited sensing area and the resistance…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Guanqun Cao , Jiaqi Jiang , Chen Lu , Daniel Fernandes Gomes , Shan Luo

Single-pixel imaging (SPI) has offered an unprecedented technique for capturing a targeted scenes without requiring either raster-scanned systems or muti-pixel detectors. However, in the current research, there are rare study reports about…

Though robotic dexterous manipulation has progressed substantially recently, challenges like in-hand occlusion still necessitate fine-grained tactile perception, leading to the integration of more tactile sensors into robotic hands.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Yan Zhao , Yang Li , Zhengxue Cheng , Hengdi Zhang , Li Song

Tactile sensing on human feet is crucial for motion control, however, has not been explored in robotic counterparts. This work is dedicated to endowing tactile sensing to legged robot's feet and showing that a single-legged robot can be…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Guanlan Zhang , Yipai Du , Yazhan Zhan , Michael Yu Wang

Optical systems which measure independent random projections of a scene according to compressed sensing (CS) theory face a myriad of practical challenges related to the size of the physical platform, photon efficiency, the need for high…

Applications · Statistics 2015-03-19 Zachary T. Harmany , Roummel F. Marcia , Rebecca M. Willett

Knowledge of 3-D object shape is of great importance to robot manipulation tasks, but may not be readily available in unstructured environments. While vision is often occluded during robot-object interaction, high-resolution tactile sensors…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-03-11 Sudharshan Suresh , Zilin Si , Joshua G. Mangelson , Wenzhen Yuan , Michael Kaess

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

High-speed event-driven tactile sensors are essential for achieving human-like dynamic manipulation, yet their integration is often limited by the bulkiness of standard event cameras. This paper presents SpikingTac, a miniaturized, highly…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Tianyu Jiang , Chaofan Zhang , Shaolin Zhang , Shaowei Cui , Shuo Wang

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

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

Developing whole-body tactile skins for robots remains a challenging task, as existing solutions often prioritize modular, one-size-fits-all designs, which, while versatile, fail to account for the robot's specific shape and the unique…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Carson Kohlbrenner , Caleb Escobedo , S. Sandra Bae , Alexander Dickhans , Alessandro Roncone

This work presents a new version of the tactile-sensing finger GelSlim 3.0, which integrates the ability to sense high-resolution shape, force, and slip in a compact form factor for use with small parallel jaw grippers in cluttered…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-03-24 Ian Taylor , Siyuan Dong , Alberto Rodriguez

Robust grasping represents an essential task in robotics, necessitating tactile feedback and reactive grasping adjustments for robust grasping of objects. Previous research has extensively combined tactile sensing with grasping, primarily…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-22 Yueming Hu , Mengde Li , Songhua Yang , Xuetao Li , Sheng Liu , Miao Li

The ability of snapshot compressive imaging (SCI) systems to efficiently capture high-dimensional (HD) data depends on the advent of novel optical designs to sample the HD data as two-dimensional (2D) compressed measurements. Nonetheless,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-03 Yaping Zhao , Edmund Y. Lam

In this paper, we study integrated estimation and control of soft robots. A significant challenge in deploying closed loop controllers is reliable proprioception via integrated sensing in soft robots. Despite the considerable advances…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-11-18 Lasitha Weerakoon , Zepeng Ye , Rahul Subramonian Bama , Elisabeth Smela , Miao Yu , Nikhil Chopra

Tactile sensing plays a fundamental role in enabling robots to navigate dynamic and unstructured environments, particularly in applications such as delicate object manipulation, surface exploration, and human-robot interaction. In this…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Annan Zhang , Miguel Flores-Acton , Andy Yu , Anshul Gupta , Maggie Yao , Daniela Rus

For Minimally Invasive Surgical (MIS) robots, accurate haptic interaction force feedback is essential for ensuring the safety of interacting with soft tissue. However, most existing MIS robotic systems cannot facilitate direct measurement…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-01-16 Jiayin Wang , Mingfeng Yao , Yanran Wei , Xiaoyu Guo , Ayong Zheng , Weidong Zhao