When vision meets touch: A contemporary review for visuotactile sensors from the signal processing perspective

S Li, Z Wang, C Wu, X Li, S Luo, B Fang… - IEEE Journal of …, 2024‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Tactile sensors, which provide information about the physical properties of objects, are an
essential component of robotic systems. The visuotactile sensing technology with the merits …

Sim2real manipulation on unknown objects with tactile-based reinforcement learning

E Su, C Jia, Y Qin, W Zhou, A Macaluso… - … on Robotics and …, 2024‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Using tactile sensors for manipulation remains one of the most challenging problems in
robotics. At the heart of these challenges is generalization: How can we train a tactile-based …

Letac-mpc: Learning model predictive control for tactile-reactive gras**

Z Xu, Y She - IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 2024‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Gras** is a crucial task in robotics, necessitating tactile feedback and reactive gras**
adjustments for robust gras** of objects under various conditions and with differing …

Multiscope: Disambiguating in-hand object poses with proprioception and tactile feedback

A Sipos, N Fazeli - arxiv preprint arxiv:2305.14204, 2023‏ - arxiv.org
In this paper, we propose a method for estimating in-hand object poses using proprioception
and tactile feedback from a bimanual robotic system. Our method addresses the problem of …

EasyCalib: Simple and low-cost in-situ calibration for force reconstruction with vision-based tactile sensors

M Li, L Zhang, YH Zhou, T Li… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2024‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
For elastomer-based tactile sensors, represented by vision-based tactile sensors, routine
calibration of mechanical parameters (Young's modulus and Poisson's ratio) has been …

Perceiving extrinsic contacts from touch improves learning insertion policies

C Higuera, J Ortiz, H Qi, L Pineda, B Boots… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2023‏ - arxiv.org
Robotic manipulation tasks such as object insertion typically involve interactions between
object and environment, namely extrinsic contacts. Prior work on Neural Contact Fields …

[PDF][PDF] Tactile-Driven Non-Prehensile Object Manipulation via Extrinsic Contact Mode Control

M Oller, D Berenson, N Fazeli - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024‏ - enriquecoronadozu.github.io
In this paper, we consider the problem of nonprehensile manipulation using grasped
objects. This problem is a superset of many common manipulation skills including instances …

3d force and contact estimation for a soft-bubble visuotactile sensor using fem

JC Peng, S Yao, K Hauser - 2024 IEEE International …, 2024‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Soft-bubble tactile sensors have the potential to capture dense contact and force information
across a large contact surface. However, it is difficult to extract contact forces directly from …