DigiTac: A DIGIT-TacTip Hybrid Tactile Sensor for Comparing Low-Cost High-Resolution Robot Touch [PDF]
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2022 Deep learning combined with high-resolution tactile sensing could lead to highly capable dexterous robots. However, progress is slow because of the specialist equipment and expertise.
N. Lepora +3 more
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Detection of Foreign Bodies in Soft Foods Employing Tactile Image Sensor
Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 2021 In the inspection work involving foodstuffs in food factories, there are cases where people not only visually inspect foodstuffs, but must also physically touch foodstuffs with their hands to find foreign or undesirable objects mixed in the product.
Kazuhiro Shimonomura +2 more
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Sensing characteristics of an optical three-axis tactile sensor under combined loading [PDF]
, 2004 This paper describes precision enhancement of an optical three-axis tactile sensor capable of detecting both normal force and tangential force. The sensor's single cell consists of a columnar feeler and 2-by-2 conical feelers.
Mitsuya, Yasunaga +3 more
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An Artificial Intelligence‐Motivated Skin‐Like Optical Fiber Tactile Sensor
Advanced Intelligent Systems, 2023 Soft and stretchable tactile sensors have received extensive attention for their potential applications in wearables, human–robot interaction, and intelligent robots.
Tianliang Li +6 more
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DTact: A Vision-Based Tactile Sensor that Measures High-Resolution 3D Geometry Directly from Darkness [PDF]
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2022 Vision-based tactile sensors that can measure 3D geometry of the contacting objects are crucial for robots to perform dexterous manipulation tasks. However, the existing sensors are usually complicated to fabricate and delicate to extend.
Chan-Yu Lin +3 more
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Rapid and accurate reverse engineering of geometry based on a multi-sensor system [PDF]
, 2014 The reduction of the lead time in measurement and reverse engineering, and the increased requirements in terms of accuracy and flexibility, have resulted in a great deal of research effort aimed at developing and implementing multi-sensor systems.
Longstaff, Andrew P. +8 more
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Multimodal Fibrous Static and Dynamic Tactile Sensor
, 2022 A highly versatile, low-cost, and robust tactile sensor capable of acquiring load measurements under static and dynamic modes employing a poly(vinylidene fluoride-co-trifluoroethylene) [P(VDF-TrFE)] micronanofiber element is presented.
Jarred W. Fastier-Wooller +15 more
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Advancement of science, 2023 Ultrasensitive flexible pressure sensors with excellent linearity are essential for achieving tactile perception. Although microstructured dielectrics have endowed capacitive sensors with ultrahigh sensitivity, the compromise of sensitivity with ...
Chunyu Lv +8 more
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Contact of a Finger on Rigid Surfaces and Textiles: Friction Coefficient and Induced Vibrations [PDF]
, 2012 The tactile information about object surfaces is obtained through perceived contact stresses and frictioninduced vibrations generated by the relative motion between the fingertip and the touched object.
FAGIANI, Ramona +8 more
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Finger-inspired rigid-soft hybrid tactile sensor with superior sensitivity at high frequency
Nature Communications, 2022 Among kinds of flexible tactile sensors, piezoelectric tactile sensor has the advantage of fast response for dynamic force detection. However, it suffers from low sensitivity at high-frequency dynamic stimuli.
Jinhui Zhang +11 more
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