Design and Development of Vision-Based Tactile Sensors
A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Physical Sensors".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2023) | Viewed by 3487
Special Issue Editors
Interests: mechatronics; robotics; control theory; system modeling; applied Al; drones; neuromorphic vision
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Dear Colleagues,
Vision-based tactile sensors open a new paradigm within the field of synthetic touch due to their advantages in terms of high resolution, instrumentation simplicity, reliability and maintainability. In robotics, tactile sensing is essential not only for executing complex precise grasping and manipulation tasks, but also for safe human–robot interaction. Vision-based tactile sensors (VBTSs) utilize optical/imaging devices for obtaining the contact information between the sensor’s surface and the environment. The progress in VBTS was enabled by the advances in artificial intelligence, camera technologies and hardware in the last decade. Therefore, the troublesome wiring for transferring signals from the skin to the processing unit is not required. A vision-based tactile sensor consists of image processing and computational intelligence, which can be implemented more easily and affordably than ever using a camera and its associated operations units.
Robotics potential applications of VBTS have increased rapidly in recent years, including household chores, tasks in hazardous/extreme environments, industrial robots, health care systems, agriculture and food production, medical instrumentation and devices, augmented reality and human–machine interaction. This led the research community to address interdisciplinary developments involving scholars from machine learning, computer vision, electronics, mechanics, material science, measurement methods, system engineering, robotics and bioengineering backgrounds.
Dr. Yahya Zweiri
Dr. Irfan Hussain
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- touch
- electronic skin
- vision-based haptic sensor
- vision-based tactile sensors
- vision-based tactile sensor design and development
- tactile sensor technologies
- tactile sensor modelling and AI
- tactile data interpretation
- robot tactile systems
- force and tactile sensing
- slipping detection and avoidance
- physical human–robot interaction
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