Robotic tactile perception of object properties: A review

S Luo, J Bimbo, R Dahiya, H Liu - Mechatronics, 2017 - Elsevier
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 …

Recent progress on tactile object recognition

H Liu, Y Wu, F Sun, D Guo - International Journal of …, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
Conventional visual perception technology is subject to many restrictions, such as
illumination, background clutter, and occlusion. Many intrinsic properties of objects, like …

Slip detection for grasp stabilization with a multifingered tactile robot hand

JW James, NF Lepora - IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Tactile sensing is used by humans when gras** to prevent us drop** objects. One key
facet of tactile sensing is slip detection, which allows a gripper to know when a grasp is …

Objectfolder 2.0: A multisensory object dataset for sim2real transfer

R Gao, Z Si, YY Chang, S Clarke… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Abstract Objects play a crucial role in our everyday activities. Though multisensory object-
centric learning has shown great potential lately, the modeling of objects in prior work is …

The objectfolder benchmark: Multisensory learning with neural and real objects

R Gao, Y Dou, H Li, T Agarwal, J Bohg… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Abstract We introduce the ObjectFolder Benchmark, a benchmark suite of 10 tasks for
multisensory object-centric learning, centered around object recognition, reconstruction, and …

Tactile object pose estimation from the first touch with geometric contact rendering

MB Villalonga, A Rodriguez, B Lim… - … on Robot Learning, 2021 - proceedings.mlr.press
In this paper, we present an approach to tactile pose estimation from the first touch for known
objects. First, we create an object-agnostic map from real tactile observations to contact …

Vitac: Feature sharing between vision and tactile sensing for cloth texture recognition

S Luo, W Yuan, E Adelson, AG Cohn… - … on Robotics and …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
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 …

3d shape perception from monocular vision, touch, and shape priors

S Wang, J Wu, X Sun, W Yuan… - 2018 IEEE/RSJ …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Perceiving accurate 3D object shape is important for robots to interact with the physical
world. Current research along this direction has been primarily relying on visual …

Tac2pose: Tactile object pose estimation from the first touch

M Bauza, A Bronars… - The International Journal …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
In this paper, we present Tac2Pose, an object-specific approach to tactile pose estimation
from the first touch for known objects. Given the object geometry, we learn a tailored …

Tactile map** and localization from high-resolution tactile imprints

M Bauza, O Canal, A Rodriguez - … International Conference on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This work studies the problem of shape reconstruction and object localization using a vision-
based tactile sensor, GelSlim. The main contributions are the recovery of local shapes from …