A Bioinspired Robotic Finger for Multimodal Tactile Sensing Powered by Fiber Optic Sensors
Advanced Intelligent SystemsThe rapid advancement of soft robotic technology emphasizes the growing importance of tactile perception. Soft grippers, equipped with tactile sensing, can gather interactive information crucial for safe human–robot interaction, wearable devices, and ...
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A bioinspired self-powered optical tactile sensing system with ultrahigh sensitivity and ultralow detection limit [PDF]
Nature CommunicationsHigh-sensitivity tactile perception is vital for precise robotic operations in human-machine interactions (HMI). Currently, state-of-the-art tactile perception relies on electrical sensors which demand complex circuits and decoding components, leading to
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Tactile Sensing Using Magnetic Foam. [PDF]
Polymers (Basel), 2022 For biomedical applications, smart materials that are used as sensors or actuators have to match some criteria, especially bio-compatibility and softness. Smart polymers are candidates that fulfill these two criteria. A sensitivity to compression is created by adding magnetic particles to a compressible foam polymer.
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Research on FBG Tactile Sensing Shape Recognition Based on Convolutional Neural Network [PDF]
SensorsShape recognition plays a significant role in the field of robot perception. In view of the low efficiency and few types of shape recognition of the fiber tactile sensor applied to flexible skin, a convolutional-neural-network-based FBG tactile sensing ...
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Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 2022 As opposed to open surgery procedures, minimally invasive surgery (MIS) utilizes small skin incisions to insert a camera and surgical instruments. MIS has numerous advantages such as reduced postoperative pain, shorter hospital stay, faster recovery time,
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GradTac: Spatio-Temporal Gradient Based Tactile Sensing [PDF]
Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 2022 Tactile sensing for robotics is achieved through a variety of mechanisms, including magnetic, optical-tactile, and conductive fluid. Currently, the fluid-based sensors have struck the right balance of anthropomorphic sizes and shapes and accuracy of ...
Kanishka Ganguly +5 more
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A Thermally Stable Piezoresistive Textile for Reliable Tactile Sensing [PDF]
Advanced ScienceRobotic applications in high‐temperature environments demand flexible tactile sensors that can endure extreme heat. Conventional sensors, typically made of polymers and carbon‐based materials, deteriorate quickly under such conditions.
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Influence of Material Optical Properties in Direct ToF LiDAR Optical Tactile Sensing: Comprehensive Evaluation. [PDF]
Materials (Basel)Aulika I +11 more
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GelSlim 3.0: High-Resolution Measurement of Shape, Force and Slip in a Compact Tactile-Sensing Finger [PDF]
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2021 This work presents a new version of tactile-sensing finger, GelSlim 3.0, which integrates the ability to sense high-resolution shape, force, and slip in a more compact form factor than previous implementations, designed for cluttered bin-picking ...
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Design and Experimental Research of Robot Finger Sliding Tactile Sensor Based on FBG
Sensors, 2022 Aiming at the problem of flexible sliding tactile sensing for the actual grasp of intelligent robot fingers, a double-layer sliding tactile sensor based on fiber Bragg grating (FBG) for robot fingers is proposed in this paper.
Guan Lu, Shiwen Fu, Yiming Xu
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