Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology - Soft Haptic Lab
***HOT***: 28/05/2022 - Congratulation to authors!!! We are glad to announce conference paper titled: "Web of TacTile Things: Towards an Open and Standardized Platform for Tactile Things via the W3C Web of Things" has been accepted by the 2022 International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE 2022). Access paper here
Journal paper titled: "Large-Scale Vision-Based Tactile Sensing for Robot Links: Design, Modeling, and Evaluation" has been accepted by IEEE Transactions on Robotics (T-RO). Download for free here.
27/04/2021 - Congratulation to authors!!! Journal paper titled: "IoTouch: whole-body tactile sensing technology toward the tele-touch" has been accepted for publication in special issue on Soft/Social/Systemic (3S) Robot Technologies for enhancing Quality of New Normal (QoNN) of Advanced Robotics journal
05/07/2021 - Congratulation!!! Finite Element solver for Reissner-Mindlin element has been successfully integrated into the newest version (v20.06.00) of SOFA framework which is officially released on July 5th, 2021. Access link (QuadBendingFEMForceField)
09/12/2021 - Congratulation to authors!!! Conference paper titled: "Toward a Tactile Ontology for Semantic Interoperability of the Tactile Internet" has been accepted by 2022 16th IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing. Access preprint version here (pass: iotouch2021)
This is the demonstration video for the paper titled Large-Scale Vision-Based Tactile Sensing for Robot Links: Design, Modeling, and Evaluation published by IEEE Transactions on Robotics (2020)
Access here
Interesting trip to IoT house
Our first attempt to create a deep neural network for high-level of tactile perception - shorten as TacNet
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