Guest Editorial Special Issue on Robotic Sense of Touch

@article{Dahiya2011GuestES,  title={Guest Editorial Special Issue on Robotic Sense of Touch},  author={Ravinder S. Dahiya and Giorgio Metta and Giorgio Cannata and Maurizio Valle},  journal={IEEE Trans. Robotics},  year={2011},  volume={27},  pages={385-388},  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:18608163}}
The “sense of touch” is particularly important as it allows the assessment of object properties such as size, shape, and texture; manipulation of objects; development of awareness of the body; and differentiation of “me” from “not me".

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Trends and challenges in robot manipulation

The progress made in robotics to emulate humans’ ability to grab, hold, and manipulate objects is reviewed, with a focus on designing humanlike hands capable of using tools.

Science Journals — AAAS

Researchers aimed to increase the robustness of object manipulation at all levels by focusing on robust perception for coping with object occlusion and noisy measurements, as well as on adaptive control approaches to infer an object’s physical properties, so as to handle objects whose properties are unknown or change as a result of manipulation.

Directions Toward Effective Utilization of Tactile Skin: A Review

The state of the art and the research issues in tactile sensing, with the emphasis on effective utilization of tactile sensors in robotic systems are surveyed, recognizing the fact that the system performance tends to depend on how its various components are put together.

Sensitive Manipulation: Manipulation Through Tactile Feedback

This work proposes an approach that consists in guiding a robot’s actions mainly by tactile feedback, with remote sensing such as vision used only as a complement, to directly sensing the interaction forces between the object, the environment, and the robot's hand.

Computational Intelligence Techniques for Tactile Sensing Systems

The research applies novel computational intelligence techniques and a tensor-based approach for the classification of touch modalities and results consist in providing a procedure to enhance system generalization ability and architecture for multi-class recognition applications.

The utility of tactile force to autonomous learning of in-hand manipulation is task-dependent

Evaluating the role of tactile information on autonomous learning of manipulation with a simulated 3-finger tendon-driven hand concludes that, in general, sensory input is useful to learning only when it is relevant to the task---as is the case of 3D force-sensing for in-hand manipulation against gravity.

Recent progress on tactile object recognition

This article divides the current studies on the tactile object recognition into three subcategories and detailed analysis has been put forward on them, and discusses some advanced topics such as visual–tactile fusion, exploratory procedure, and data sets.

Surface Following With An Rgb-D Vision-Guided Robotic System For Automated And Rapid Vehicle Inspection

The proposed multi-stage system developed merges all components to achieve rapid 3D profiling over a complex surface in order to fully automate the process of surface following for vehicles of various types and shapes.

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Attempts to solve some of the difficult new technical and information processing challenges presented by flexible touch sensitive skin are discussed, based on a method for sensors to self-organize into sensor banks for classification of touch interactions.

Tactile Sensing—From Humans to Humanoids

Tactile sensing, focused to fingertips and hands until past decade or so, has now been extended to whole body, even though many issues remain open, and various system issues that keep tactile sensing away from widespread utility are discussed.

Self-Organization, Embodiment, and Biologically Inspired Robotics

Robotics researchers increasingly agree that ideas from biology and self-organization can strongly benefit the design of autonomous robots. Biological organisms have evolved to perform and survive in…

A High-Resolution Imaging Touch Sensor

A dexterous robot manipulator must be able to feel what it is doing. The mechanical hand of the future will be able to roll a screw between its fingers and sense, by touch, which end is which. This…

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The successful development of the tactile sensor system of the human-interactive robot named RI-MAN, which can lift up a dummy human, is reported.

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The current state of the art and predicts the outlook in robotic tactile sensing for real-time control of dextrous manipulation are reviewed and future directions for research in sensing and control are considered.

Active touch sensing

This theme issue looks at active touch across a broad range of species from insects, terrestrial and marine mammals, through to humans, and considers how engineering is beginning to exploit physical analogues of these biological systems so as to endow robots with rich tactile sensing capabilities.

Tactile sensing: Steps to artificial somatosensory maps

A layered system is proposed, which is inspired from tactile sensing in humans for building artificial somatosensory maps in robots, and validated in simulation to validate the approach.

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