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Research Motivation:

TOUCH is a common but important action of everyday life. Touch enables the  accurate determination of the surface and other properties of an object, including its weight and shape,facilitates grasping tasks, and determines many functions of the motor system. 

My research devotes to the understanding of slip perception of soft tactile sensing systems equipped for robot-environment interaction and robotic manipulation tasks. What I have been doing has twofolds:

• Characterization of dynamic slip of soft objects, such as robotic soft fingertip. From that, we are able assess how and when the slippage occurs. Knowledge about slip perception will help us to obtain stable grasp manipulation tasks.

• Design and fabrication of soft tactile sensing system, exploiting knowledge about slip perception perceived from above issue. We then propose strategy to assess the slippage that occurs during interaction of sensor and outside environment. 

Reference: http://www.ritsumei.ac.jp/se/~hirai/research/softhaptics-e.html

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