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Bioinspired Adaptive Sensors: A Review on Current Developments in Theory and Application

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
This review comprehensively summarizes the recent progress in the design and fabrication of sensory‐adaptation‐inspired devices and highlights their valuable applications in electronic skin, wearable electronics, and machine vision. The existing challenges and future directions are addressed in aspects such as device performance optimization ...
Guodong Gong, You Zhou, Qingxiu Li, Wenyu Zhao, Sunyingyue Geng, Hangfei Li, Yan‐Bing Leng, Shirui Zhu, Guanglong Ding, Yongbiao Zhai, Ziyu Lv, Ye Zhou, Su‐Ting Han   +12 more
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GelSight: High-Resolution Robot Tactile Sensors for Estimating Geometry and Force

Sensors, 2017
Tactile sensing is an important perception mode for robots, but the existing tactile technologies have multiple limitations. What kind of tactile information robots need, and how to use the information, remain open questions.
Wenzhen Yuan, Siyuan Dong, Edward H. Adelson   +2 more
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Sensing Characteristics of an Optical Three-axis Tactile Sensor Mounted on a Multi-fingered robotic Hand [PDF]

, 2005
To develop a new three-axis tactile sensor for mounting on multi-fingered robotic hands, in this work we optimize sensing elements on the basis of our previous works concerning optical three-axis tactile sensors with a flat sensing surface.
Mitsuya, Yasunaga, Kobayashi, Hiroaki, Ohka, Masahiro   +2 more
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Rapid Fabrication of Self‐Propelled and Steerable Magnetic Microcatheters for Precision Medicine

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
A rapid Joule heating fabrication method for the production of self‐propelling, adaptive microcatheters, with tunable stiffness and integrated microfluidic channels is presented. Demonstrated through three microrobotic designs, including a steerable guiding catheter, an untethered wave‐crawling TubeBot, and a distal‐end propelled microcatheter, it was ...
Zhi Chen, Boris Rivkin, David Castellanos‐Robles, Ivan Soldatov, Lukas Beyer, Mariana Medina‐Sánchez   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Validation and evaluation of a low-cost fabric-based tactile sensor in comparison with an sEMG sensor

e-Prime: Advances in Electrical Engineering, Electronics and Energy
Tactile sensors play an increasingly crucial role in the monitoring of muscle behaviour during diverse activities. Regrettably, accessibility is restricted by the high cost of commercial Electromyography (EMG) systems.
Gasak Abdul-Hussain, William Holderbaum, Theodoros Theodoridis, Guowu Wei   +3 more
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Self‐Powered Flexible Triboelectric‐Gated Ion‐Gel Transistor for Neuromorphic Tactile Sensing and Human Activity Recognition

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
A fully flexible ion‐gel‐gated graphene‐channel transistor driven by a triboelectric nanogenerator enables self‐powered tactile sensing and synaptic learning. Mimicking spike‐rate‐dependent plasticity, the device exhibits frequency‐selective potentiation and depression, supporting rate‐coded neuromorphic computation even under flex.
Hanseong Cho, Seoyeon Park, Youngmin Lee, Sejoon Lee   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Current Trend of Tactile Sensor in Advanced Applications [PDF]

, 2012
Tactile sensor is one of the important tactile technologies which discovered in the 1980s. It grows in line with development of robotics and computers. From current development trends, varieties of application areas from tactile sensor have been proposed.
Jaafar, Hazriq Izzuan
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Neuromorphic Electronics for Intelligence Everywhere: Emerging Devices, Flexible Platforms, and Scalable System Architectures

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
The perspective presents an integrated view of neuromorphic technologies, from device physics to real‐time applicability, while highlighting the necessity of full‐stack co‐optimization. By outlining practical hardware‐level strategies to exploit device behavior and mitigate non‐idealities, it shows pathways for building efficient, scalable, and ...
Kapil Bhardwaj, Roshni Satheesh Babu, Yuxin Xia, Eva Bestelink, Radu Sporea, Nikos Hastas, Ioannis Zeimpekis, Dimitra G. Georgiadou, Sayani Majumdar   +8 more
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SuperTac - tactile data super-resolution via dimensionality reduction

Frontiers in Robotics and AI
The advancement of tactile sensing in robotics and prosthetics is constrained by the trade-off between spatial and temporal resolution in artificial tactile sensors.
Neel Patel, Rwik Rana, Deepesh Kumar, Nitish V. Thakor   +3 more
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Implementing Monocular Visual-Tactile Sensors for Robust Manipulation

Cyborg and Bionic Systems, 2022
Tactile sensing is an essential capability for robots performing manipulation tasks. In this paper, we introduce a framework to build a monocular visual-tactile sensor for robotic manipulation tasks.
Rui Li, Bohao Peng
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