Reviews, projects, hardwares, groups, and papers collection of Tactile:love_you_gesture:
This part collectes reviews of tactile research, from biological theoories to technical implementations.
- (Nature Reviews Neuroscience) Coding and use of tactile signals from the fingertips in object manipulation tasks. [paper]
This paper provides the basis tactile and control mechanisim of finger manipulation tasks. It describles the tactile infomation and encoding process (statistics and timing spikes), as well as the multimodal representations.
- (Science Robotics) Neuro-inspired electronic skin for robots. [paper]
This paper reviews exsisting touch schemes, sensors, algorithms, as well as e-skin for robot. Besides, neural-like sensing, data processing and the integration chips are introduces to provide advance touch information for robotic interaction and applications.
- (Science Robotics) Electronic skins and machine learning for intelligent soft robots[paper]
This paper reviews the e-skin (multimodalities, sensor array, sensor fusion) and machine learning algos for soft robot.
- (IEEE Sensors Journal) Hardware Technology of Vision-Based Tactile Sensor: A Review** [paper]
This paper concludes vision-based tactile sensor (VBTS), which consists of a contact module, an illumination module, and a camera module and their preparation process and complete manufacturing scheme. Details are presented, and future outlook are discussed.
Various tactile sensors are developed in recent years, this part concluded these project to provide technical details for reproduction. Based on the sensor mechanism, they are divide as Gel (vision based), electric (pressure sensitive), and other physical principles (optics, thermal, mechanical, *et al.*)
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GelSight:
The first gel based sensors to detect surface details. π [paper3] [paper2] [paper1] π [Kimo] [Adelson]
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GelSight Wedge:
GelSight Wedge sensor, which is optimized to have a compact shape for robot fingers, which can achieve high-resolution 3D reconstruction.π [paper(ICRA21)] π [ShaoXiong Wang] [MARS lab]
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GelSlim:
A popular open-source compact tactile-sensing Finger with measurement of shape, force and slip.π [paper] [sight] [1.0] [2.0] [MPalm] π[Alberto] [SiYuan Dong] [Ian H Taylor] π₯ [resource] [1.0] [30]
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Digit:
An easy-to-use, reliable, low-cost, compact, high-resolution, tactile sensor designed for robotic in-hand manipulation.π [paper]
[resource]
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PyTouch:
A machine learning tools for tactile info (with digit).π [paper]
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Tacto:
A simulation environment for vision based tactile sensors.π [paper] πͺ[community]
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TacTip:
3D printed open-source tactile sensors family.They adopt biomimetic design to record deformation when sensor touch object, with an substituting papillae and internal pins on the inside of its skin. Tracking pins can provide shape deformation (and force various) infomation.π [paper] [ieee papers] π[Nathan Lepora] [Qiang Li] [OpenTacTip] π [tutorial] [review18] [review21 arxiv]
- Tactile glove:
is a low-cost, scalable tactile glove which contains 548 force sensors and can recognize 26 general objects.π[paper] [intro][project] π[Subramanian Sundaram]
- Italy Tactile Reseach:
The Italian community working is the tactile sensing field, the areas of interest span e.g. human physiology, neuroscience, material science, electronics, robotics, bioengineering.π[Maurizio Valle ]
Tactile sensors are developed and commercialized in robotics, metrology and related percepetion. This part will introduce existing sensors and equipements which are public avaliable and purchaseable, that give us a reference for next generation tactile sensors development.
GelSight, Inc. is the commercialization organization of GelSight research, they two tactile products, mesurement focused GelSight Mobile (with micrometer accuracy) and robotics focused GelSight Mini (with 25fps velocity). π»Code and π¬Video introduction are availiable.
β‘ SynTouch, Inc.
SynTouch, Inc, is a touch sensor company with various **force** and touch sensors production. They begin from the research in Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Southern California. They have multiple [touch sensors](https://syntouchinc.com/robotics/), BioTac, BioTac SP and NumaTac; haptics model and touch dataset. The BioTac has a rigid core surrounded by an elastic liquid-filled skin as human fingertip, with force, vibration, and temperature sensing abilities. Furthermore, NomaTac eliminates insensitive dead spots and vulnerable edges and absorbs the energy of collisions, improves durability. π Annal Report and π Brochure, π resource
β’ TekScan
This serial are ultra thin, flexible pressure sensors by film printed circuit with high resolution. π¦Products
β£ Touchance
Touchace produce various displacement, (6D) force, texture, and tactile sensors.
β€ Weiss
The WTS series includes a range of intelligent tactile sensor modules with integrated signal processor, with highly sensitive sensor matrix that allows a precise detection of very light contact forces.
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- (Science Advances) Ultraflexible organic photonic skin. [paper]
This paper
- (Science) A skin-inspired organic digital mechanoreceptor. [paper]
This paper
- π (Science Robotics) A neuro-inspired artificial peripheral nervous system for scalable electronic skins
TodoPapers:
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(1. Science Review)Electronic skins and machine learning for intelligent soft robots
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(2. Nature review)A mechanism for touch
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(ππ»Nature sense)The neural mechanisms of manual dexterity
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(Nature sense)The encoding of touch by somatotopically aligned dorsal column subdivisions
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(Science Robotics) A skin-inspired tactile sensor for smart prosthetics
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(Science Robotics) A hierarchically patterned, bioinspired e-skin able to detect the direction of applied pressure for robotics
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(Soft Robotics) Smart Skin: Vision-Based Soft Pressure Sensing System for In-Home Hand Rehabilitation [paper]
This paper proposed Smart Skin with colored fluid rises and fills in the top surface display area to sense grip forces. When compress the sensor, the fluid with flow to channel and caputred by camera.
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(Soft Robotics) Designing a Contact Fingertip Sensor Made Using a Soft 3D Printing Technique [paper]
This paper builds strain sensors made of sensitive, thin, and conductive channels printed inside a soft matrix with 3D print. The (ink) beam with conductive lines exhibits a quasi-linear electrical response and can act as mechanical diodes, can simultaneously measure normal and tangential forces.
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(Soft Robotics) Multidimensional Tactile Sensor with a Thin Compound Eye-Inspired Imaging System [paper] [MLA] [DelTact] [Viko 2.0] π[Hongyu Yu]
This paper takes pinholes as compound eye to achieve visual-touch sensing which directly capture deformation images fo elastomer layer to percepte tactile.
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(Soft Robotics) Sim-to-Real for High-Resolution Optical Tactile Sensing: From Images to Three-Dimensional Contact Force Distributions [paper] π[Carmelo Sferrazza] [Raffaello D'Andrea]
This paper proposes a strategy to generate tactile images in simulation for a vision-based tactile sensor and train learning-based method to extract force and deformation from image.
