Recent progress in advanced tactile sensing technologies for soft grippers

J Qu, B Mao, Z Li, Y Xu, K Zhou, X Cao… - Advanced Functional …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Tactile sensing technology is crucial for soft grippers. Soft grippers equipped with intelligent
tactile sensing systems based on various sensors can interact safely with the unstructured …

Soft biomimetic optical tactile sensing with the TacTip: A review

NF Lepora - IEEE Sensors Journal, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Reproducing the capabilities of the human sense of touch in machines is an important step
in enabling robot manipulation to have the ease of human dexterity. A combination of robotic …

Memristor-based adaptive neuromorphic perception in unstructured environments

S Wang, S Gao, C Tang, E Occhipinti, C Li… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Efficient operation of control systems in robotics or autonomous driving targeting real-world
navigation scenarios requires perception methods that allow them to understand and adapt …

Review of robot skin: A potential enabler for safe collaboration, immersive teleoperation, and affective interaction of future collaborative robots

G Pang, G Yang, Z Pang - IEEE Transactions on Medical …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The emerging applications of collaborative robots (cobots) are spilling out from product
manufactories to service industries for human care, such as patient care for combating the …

A comprehensive review of robot intelligent gras** based on tactile perception

T Li, Y Yan, C Yu, J An, Y Wang, G Chen - Robotics and Computer …, 2024 - Elsevier
The Advancements in tactile sensors and machine learning techniques open new
opportunities for achieving intelligent gras** in robotics. Traditional robot is limited in its …

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 …

Research on flexible end-effectors with humanoid grasp function for small spherical fruit picking

F Zhang, Z Chen, Y Wang, R Bao, X Chen, S Fu… - Agriculture, 2023 - mdpi.com
The rapid, stable, and undamaged picking of small-sized spherical fruits are one of the key
technologies to improve the level of intelligent picking robots and reduce grading …

Multi-fingered in-hand manipulation with various object properties using graph convolutional networks and distributed tactile sensors

S Funabashi, T Isobe, F Hongyi… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Multi-fingered hands could be used to achieve many dexterous manipulation tasks, similarly
to humans, and tactile sensing could enhance the manipulation stability for a variety of …

Pose-and-shear-based tactile servoing

J Lloyd, NF Lepora - The International Journal of Robotics …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Tactile servoing is an important technique because it enables robots to manipulate objects
with precision and accuracy while adapting to changes in their environments in real-time …

Evetac: An event-based optical tactile sensor for robotic manipulation

N Funk, E Helmut, G Chalvatzaki… - IEEE Transactions …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Optical tactile sensors have recently become popular. They provide high spatial resolution,
but struggle to offer fine temporal resolutions. To overcome this shortcoming, we study the …