Active touch for perception and interaction:

How nature inspires robotics

Papers & posters

Proceedings

Download proceedings here.

Poster presentations:

1) Object Classification Through Active 3D Tactile Sensing by a Multi-Fingered Robot Hand by Satoshi Funabashi, Shu Morikuni, Alexander Schmitz, Andreas Geier, Tito Pradhono Tomo, Sophon Somlor and Shigeki Sugano

2) Continuous Contour Following using an Optical Tactile Sensor by Kirsty Aquilina, David Barton and Nathan Lepora

3) VRTouched: Towards Exploring Effects of Tactile Communication with Virtual Robots on User Experience in Virtual Reality by Ren Bozgeyikli

4) Cloth Texture Recognition using Vision and Tactile Sensing by Shan Luo, Wenzhen Yuan, Edward Adelson, Anthony G. Cohn and Raul Fuentes

5) Skin Deformation Haptic Feedback for Guidance and Proprioceptive Sensory Substitution in a Motor Learning Task by Darrel R. Deo, Cole S. Simpson and Paul Nuyujukian and Allison M. Okamura

6) Tactile Regrasp: Grasp Adjustments via Simulated Tactile Transformation by Maria Bauza, Francois Robert Hogan and Alberto Rodriguez

7) Modular,Whole Finger Tactile Sensing Gripper by Achu Wilson, Edward Adelson

8) Voronoi Features for Tactile Sensing: Direct Inference of Pressure, Shear, and Contact Locations by Luke Cramphorn, John Lloyd and Nathan Lepora

9) Texture Perception with a Biomimetic Optical Tactile Sensor by Nicholas Pestell and Nathan Lepora

10) Endowing soft hands with touch-based sensory-motor primitives for grasping by Giuseppe Averta, Edoardo Battaglia, Carlos Rosales, Manuel Bonilla, Alessandro Tondo, Mattia Poggiani, Gaspare Santaera, Simone Ciotti, Manuel G. Catalano, Antonio Bicchi and Matteo Bianchi

11) Tactile Sensing with Overlapping Signals by Pedro Piacenza, Matei Ciocarlie

Poster format:

Posters should be printed in A1 format to present at the workshop, and should be on display from before the start of the workshop (9:00am).

Lightning talks:

Please also prepare a 2 minute lightning talk to accompany your poster in powerpoint (max 3 slides).

Award:

The best posters will receive awards.