Population aging has highlighted the significance of developing home-care robots to assist human life. However, traditional home-care robots work according to fixed procedures, which lack human–robot interaction to mimic human hand action. Human–robot interfaces provide an opportunity for interactions between robots and users, which play an important role in home-care robots. … [Read more...] about Electronic Skin as Human–Robot Interface for Human Grasp Recognition in Home-Care Robots: Introducing a Complete Set of Resources
Haptic interfaces
Touching the Sound: Audible Features Enable Haptics for Robot Control
Haptic control interfaces can significantly improve the quality of teleoperation in robotic and mechatronic systems. However, the required force feedback introduces new challenges when highly constrained environments and systems hinder the use of conventional force sensors. In this article, we propose a haptic control method that provides feedback to the operator when force … [Read more...] about Touching the Sound: Audible Features Enable Haptics for Robot Control
Visuo-Tactile Recognition of Partial Point Clouds Using PointNet and Curriculum Learning
This article is about recognizing handheld objects from incomplete tactile observations with a classifier trained on only visual representations. Our method is based on the deep learning (DL) architecture PointNet and a curriculum learning (CL) technique for fostering the learning of descriptors robust to partial representations of objects. The learning procedure gradually … [Read more...] about Visuo-Tactile Recognition of Partial Point Clouds Using PointNet and Curriculum Learning
Automatic Gripper-Finger Design, Production, and Application: Toward Fast and Cost-Effective Small-Batch Production
Tactile robot-based assembly line adaptation of new products is still limited by the manual redesign, manufacturing, and exchange of the end-effector setup since the gripper fingers must often be adapted to the geometry of the product components to ensure a successful assembly process. In this article we present an automatic finger design, production, and evaluation pipeline, … [Read more...] about Automatic Gripper-Finger Design, Production, and Application: Toward Fast and Cost-Effective Small-Batch Production
A Hybrid Visual–Haptic Framework for Motion Synchronization in Human–Robot Cotransporting
In this article, we propose a hybrid visual–haptic framework enabling a robot to achieve motion synchronization in human–robot cotransporting. Visual sensing is employed in capturing human motion in real time. To deal with the inherent delays between the human’s initiative motion and the robot’s responsive motion in cotransporting, a human motion prediction method is developed … [Read more...] about A Hybrid Visual–Haptic Framework for Motion Synchronization in Human–Robot Cotransporting
