Hardware technology of vision-based tactile sensor: A review

S Zhang, Z Chen, Y Gao, W Wan, J Shan… - IEEE Sensors …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A vision-based tactile sensor (VBTS) is an innovative optical sensor widely applied in robotic
perception. The VBTS consists of a contact module, an illumination module, and a camera …

Tactile image sensors employing camera: A review

K Shimonomura - Sensors, 2019 - mdpi.com
A tactile image sensor employing a camera is capable of obtaining rich tactile information
through image sequences with high spatial resolution. There have been many studies on …

Tactile sensing for minimally invasive surgery: Conventional methods and potential emerging tactile technologies

W Othman, ZHA Lai, C Abril… - Frontiers in Robotics …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
As opposed to open surgery procedures, minimally invasive surgery (MIS) utilizes small skin
incisions to insert a camera and surgical instruments. MIS has numerous advantages such …

Tactile-based fabric defect detection using convolutional neural network with attention mechanism

B Fang, X Long, F Sun, H Liu, S Zhang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article proposes a fabric structure defect detection method based on the vision-based
tactile sensor. The result will be robust by using the tactile sensor regardless of dyeing …

Marker displacement method used in vision-based tactile sensors—From 2-D to 3-D: A review

M Li, T Li, Y Jiang - IEEE Sensors Journal, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The vision-based tactile sensor has been proven to be a promising device for sensing tactile
information. Among such sensors, the marker displacement method (MDM) is the most …

Tactile-sensing technologies: Trends, challenges and outlook in agri-food manipulation

W Mandil, V Rajendran, K Nazari… - Sensors, 2023 - mdpi.com
Tactile sensing plays a pivotal role in achieving precise physical manipulation tasks and
extracting vital physical features. This comprehensive review paper presents an in-depth …

Accurate recognition of object contour based on flexible piezoelectric and piezoresistive dual mode strain sensors

Z Gao, B Ren, Z Fang, H Kang, J Han, J Li - Sensors and Actuators A …, 2021 - Elsevier
The application of flexible wearable sensors in the gras** process of robot hand can
recognize the contour, soft and hard, material, surface temperature and other information of …

A novel vision-based tactile sensor using lamination and gilding process for improvement of outdoor detection and maintainability

S Zhang, Y Yang, J Shan, F Sun… - IEEE Sensors Journal, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article presents a novel vision-based tactile sensor (VBTS) using a pioneering process
route to solve the problem of high process cost and low maintainability. We adopt the acrylic …

Visual-tactile cross-modal data generation using residue-fusion gan with feature-matching and perceptual losses

S Cai, K Zhu, Y Ban, T Narumi - IEEE Robotics and Automation …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Existing psychophysical studies have revealed that the cross-modal visual-tactile perception
is common for humans performing daily activities. However, it is still challenging to build the …

Effective estimation of contact force and torque for vision-based tactile sensors with helmholtz–hodge decomposition

Y Zhang, Z Kan, Y Yang, YA Tse… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Retrieving rich contact information from robotic tactile sensing has been a challenging, yet
significant task for the effective perception of object properties that the robot interacts with …