Tactile sensing is a key sensor modality for robots interacting with their surroundings. These
sensors provide a rich and diverse set of data signals that contain detailed information …

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 …

A new flexible piezoelectric tactile sensor array based on polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) film
is proposed for measuring three-axis dynamic contact force distribution. The array consists …

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

Surface texture discrimination using artificial tactile sensors has attracted increasing
attentions in the past decade as it can endow robot systems with a key missing ability …

Multifunctional flexible tactile sensors could be useful to improve the control of prosthetic
hands. To that end, highly stretchable liquid metal tactile sensors (LMS) were designed …

Robotic grippers can be equipped with tactile sensing systems to extract information from a
manipulated object. The real-time classification of the physical properties of a grasped …

The human sense of touch allows recognizing a wide set of properties of a grasped object
such as weight, shape, hardness, temperature or surface texture. Despite the great …

Discrimination of surface textures and their surface roughness using tactile sensors have
attracted increasing attention. Highly sensitive tactile sensors with the ability to recognize …

This paper presents new methods for the recognition and categorization of object properties
such as surface texture, weight, and compliance using a multi-modal artificial skin mounted …