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Consciousness and cognition
Feb 1, 2022
What happens when artificial sensors are coupled with the human senses? Using technology to extend the senses is an old human dream, on which sensory substitution and other augmentation technologies have already delivered. Laser tactile canes, cornea...
Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
Dec 14, 2021
A robot's ability to grasp moving objects depends on the availability of real-time sensor data in both the far-field and near-field of the gripper. This research investigates the potential contribution of tactile sensing to a task of grasping an obje...
Soft robotics
Oct 7, 2021
Artificial tactile sensing for robots is a counterpart to the human sense of touch, serving as a feedback interface for sensing and interacting with the environment. A vision-based tactile sensor has emerged as a novel and advantageous branch of arti...
Soft robotics
Aug 24, 2021
Medical palpation is a diagnostic technique in which physicians use the sense of touch to manipulate the soft human tissue. This can be done to enable the diagnosis of possibly life-threatening conditions, such as cancer. Palpation is still poorly un...
Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
Aug 9, 2021
Recent achievements in the field of computer vision, reinforcement learning, and locomotion control have largely extended legged robots' maneuverability in complex natural environments. However, little research focuses on sensing and analyzing the ph...
IEEE transactions on haptics
Jun 17, 2021
Haptic communication, the exchange of force and tactile information during dancing or moving a table together, has been shown to benefit the performance of human partners. Similarly, it could also be used to improve the performance of robots working ...
Skin research and technology : official journal of International Society for Bioengineering and the Skin (ISBS) [and] International Society for Digital Imaging of Skin (ISDIS) [and] International Society for Skin Imaging (ISSI)
Mar 2, 2021
BACKGROUND: For virtual skincare using a touch feedback interface, reconstructing a 3D skin tactile surface from a mobile skin image is imperative for a dermatologist to palpate the skin surface that presents tactile characteristics of the subcutaneo...
Soft robotics
Jan 18, 2021
Recent studies have been inspired by natural whiskers for a proposal of tactile sensing system to augment the sensory ability of autonomous robots. In this study, we propose a novel artificial soft whisker sensor that is not only flexible but also ad...
Scientific reports
Nov 27, 2020
Trial-by-trial texture classification analysis and identifying salient texture related EEG features during active touch that are minimally influenced by movement type and frequency conditions are the main contributions of this work. A total of twelve...
Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
May 27, 2020
Touch plays a crucial role in humans' nonverbal social and affective communication. It then comes as no surprise to observe a considerable effort that has been placed on devising methodologies for automated touch classification. For instance, such an...