Touch sensing can help robots understand their surrounding environment, and in particular
the objects they interact with. To this end, roboticists have, in the last few decades …

A wide variety of tactile (touch) sensors exist today for robotics and related applications.
They make use of various transduction methods, smart materials and engineered structures …

Vision and touch are two of the important sensing modalities for humans and they offer
complementary information for sensing the environment. Robots could also benefit from …

In this paper, the authors look at the domain of tactile sensing in the context of Robotics.
After a short introduction to support the interest of providing robots with touch, the basic …

In recent years, autonomous robots have increasingly been deployed in unknown
environments and required to manipulate or categorize unknown objects. In order to cope …

Object surface properties are among the most important information which a robot requires
in order to effectively interact with an unknown environment. This paper presents a novel …

In this paper, we present a novel approach for touch modality identification via tactile
sensing on a humanoid. In this respect, we equipped a NAO humanoid with whole upper …

Artificial robot skins capable of multi-modal tactile feedback are anticipated to revolutionize
how robots perceive their immediate surroundings and how they collaborate with humans …

Cellular manufacturing (CM) is an approach that includes both flexibility of job shops and
high production rate of flow lines. Although CM provides many benefits in reducing …

Internal models play a key role in cognitive agents by providing on the one hand predictions
of sensory consequences of motor commands (forward models), and on the other hand …