A review of robot learning for manipulation: Challenges, representations, and algorithms

O Kroemer, S Niekum, G Konidaris - Journal of machine learning research, 2021 - jmlr.org
A key challenge in intelligent robotics is creating robots that are capable of directly
interacting with the world around them to achieve their goals. The last decade has seen …

[HTML][HTML] 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 …

Making sense of vision and touch: Self-supervised learning of multimodal representations for contact-rich tasks

MA Lee, Y Zhu, K Srinivasan, P Shah… - … on robotics and …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Contact-rich manipulation tasks in unstructured environments often require both haptic and
visual feedback. However, it is non-trivial to manually design a robot controller that …

More than a feeling: Learning to grasp and regrasp using vision and touch

R Calandra, A Owens, D Jayaraman… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
For humans, the process of gras** an object relies heavily on rich tactile feedback. Most
recent robotic gras** work, however, has been based only on visual input, and thus …

Making sense of vision and touch: Learning multimodal representations for contact-rich tasks

MA Lee, Y Zhu, P Zachares, M Tan… - IEEE Transactions …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Contact-rich manipulation tasks in unstructured environments often require both haptic and
visual feedback. It is nontrivial to manually design a robot controller that combines these …

Recent progress in tactile sensing and sensors for robotic manipulation: can we turn tactile sensing into vision?

A Yamaguchi, CG Atkeson - Advanced Robotics, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
This paper surveys recently published literature on tactile sensing in robotic manipulation to
understand effective strategies for using tactile sensing and the issues involved in tactile …

Slip detection with a biomimetic tactile sensor

JW James, N Pestell, NF Lepora - IEEE Robotics and …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Slip detection helps to prevent robotic hands from drop** grasped objects and would thus
enable complex object manipulation. Here we present a method of detecting slip with a …

Tactile dexterity: Manipulation primitives with tactile feedback

FR Hogan, J Ballester, S Dong… - 2020 IEEE international …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper develops closed-loop tactile controllers for dexterous robotic manipulation with a
dual-palm robotic system. Tactile dexterity is an approach to dexterous manipulation that …