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Erik Helmut

2 accepted papers

2026

Tactile-Conditioned Diffusion Policy for Force-Aware Robotic Manipulation

ICRA 2026poster

Contact-rich manipulation depends on applying the correct grasp forces throughout the manipulation task, especially when handling fragile or deformable objects. Most existing imitation learning approaches often treat visuotactile feedback only as an additional observation, leaving applied forces as …

2025

Learning Force Distribution Estimation for the GelSight Mini Optical Tactile Sensor Based on Finite Element Analysis

IROS 2025

Contact-rich manipulation remains a major challenge in robotics. Optical tactile sensors like GelSight Mini offer a low-cost solution for contact sensing by capturing softbody deformations of the silicone gel. However, accurately inferring shear and normal force distributions from these gel deformat

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