Alfonso J. Fernandez

Visiflex: A Low-Cost Compliant Tactile Fingertip for Force, Torque, and Contact Sensing

We present the Visiflex, an inexpensive compliant tactile fingertip capable of contact localization and 6 degree-of-freedom (dof) contact force and torque measurement. Because manipulation of rigid or nearly-rigid objects requires compliance at the contact, we build compliance directly into the Visi