5 accepted papers
We present a planning and control method that computes a minimal sequence of pokes to slide a given object from an initial pose to a desired final one (or as close to it as possible) on a planar surface. Both planning and control are based on impact models to generate pokes. Our framework takes into
Human skin can accurately sense the self-decoupled normal and shear forces when in contact with objects of different sizes. Although there exist many soft and conformable tactile sensors on robotic applications able to decouple the normal force and shear forces, the impact of the size of object in c…
Tactile sensors of high spatial resolution can provide rich contact information in terms of accurate contact location and force magnitude for robots. However, achieving a high spatial resolution normally requires a high density of tactile sensing cells (or taxels), which will inevitably lead to crow
We propose a deep visuo-tactile model for real-time estimation of the liquid inside a deformable container in a proprioceptive way. We fuse two sensory modalities, i.e., the raw visual inputs from the RGB camera and the tactile cues from our specific tactile sensor without any extra sensor calibrati…
Robot-assisted minimally invasive surgery (RMIS) has become increasingly popular in the resection of cancers. However, the lack of tactile feedback in clinical RMIS limits the surgeon's haptic understanding of tissue mechanics, making it hard to detect tissue abnormalities (e.g., tumor) efficiently.