Topics of interest (but not limited to)

 

 Human Sense of Touch  

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• Touch physiology from skin to brain

• Haptic Perception 

• Action and Perception Loop

• Perception for Learning

 

Tactile Sensing Technologies

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• Conformable and compliant materials

• Features enabled by conformable sensors

• Biomimetics

• Sensor effects

• Integration and read-out strategies

• Self-healing properties and strategies

• Sensor skins: design, fabrication and integration strategies

• Integration strategies for sensors in robotics

• Enabling technologies for fully integrated robotic systems

 

Visuo-Tactile Predictive Coding and Active Inference

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• Exploitation of contact constraints

• Novel contact models

• Object perception for the exploitation of contact

• Tactile information processing

• Tactile feature extraction / feature learning 

• Tactile-based object modelling 

• Tactile object localization

• Tactile shape reconstruction and recognition

• Tactile object classification

• Tactile exploration

• Trends in combining of vision and touch sensing

• Roles of vision and touch sensing in different object perception tasks

• Modelling and representation of sensing modalities

• Integration of visuo-tactile sensing modalities

          

  Visuo-Tactile Grasp, Prehensile and non- prehensile Manipulation

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• Linear/rotational slip detection 

• Grasping planning

• Grasp stability assessment

• Soft manipulation

• In-hand/whole body manipulation

• Tactile planning interplay between touch sensing and vision

• Tactile knowledge/skill transfer  

• Tactile transfer learning

• The meaning and function of different sensing modalities in object manipulation

• Sensing and planning in object manipulation

• Multi-robot manipulation and coordination

• Control strategy for object manipulation and collaborative assembly

• Learning object manipulation skills from human demonstration

• Novel approaches to grasp and manipulation planning

• Whole-body, multi-contact planning and control

• Design and characterization of contact-exploiting, compliant hands