Soft, Round, High Resolution Tactile Fingertip Sensors for Dexterous Robotic Manipulation
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Romero, Branden; Fernandes Veiga, Filipe; Adelson, Edward H
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© 2020 IEEE. High resolution tactile sensors are often bulky and have shape profiles that make them awkward for use in manipulation. This becomes important when using such sensors as fingertips for dexterous multi-fingered hands, where boxy or planar fingertips limit the available set of smooth manipulation strategies. High resolution optical based sensors such as GelSight have until now been constrained to relatively flat geometries due to constraints on illumination geometry. Here, we show how to construct a rounded fingertip that utilizes a form of light piping for directional illumination. Our sensors can replace the standard rounded fingertips of the Allegro hand. They can capture high resolution maps of the contact surfaces, and can be used to support various dexterous manipulation tasks.
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2020-05Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory; Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Brain and Cognitive SciencesJournal
Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation
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IEEE
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Romero, Branden, Veiga, Filipe and Adelson, Edward. 2020. "Soft, Round, High Resolution Tactile Fingertip Sensors for Dexterous Robotic Manipulation." Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation.
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