Human dexterity is an invaluable capability for precise manipulation of objects in complex
tasks. The capability of robots to similarly grasp and perform in-hand manipulation of objects …

Artificial tactile sensing is still underdeveloped, especially in sensing shear and slip on a
contact surface. For a robot hand to manually explore the environment or perform a …

Incorporating touch as a sensing modality for robots can enable finer and more robust
manipulation skills. Existing tactile sensors are either flat, have small sensitive fields or only …

Classical robotic approaches to tactile object identification often involve rigid mechanical
grippers, dense sensor arrays, and exploratory procedures (EPs). Though EPs are a natural …

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 …

Collaborative robots stand to have an immense impact on both human welfare in domestic
service applications and industrial superiority in advanced manufacturing with dexterous …

Humans have been shown to be good at using active touch to perceive subtle differences in
compliance. They tend to use highly stereotypical exploratory strategies, such as applying …

Tactile communication systems based on vibrotactile signals have been developed as
sensory substitution devices for those with visual, auditory, or vestibular impairments and to …

Tactile sensing is essential to the human perception system, so as to robot. In this paper, we
develop a novel optical-based tactile sensor" FingerVision" with effective signal processing …

The BioTac® is a biomimetic tactile sensor for grip control and object characterization. It has
three sensing modalities: thermal flux, microvibration and force. In this paper, we discuss …