3 papers
cs.RO2025
Low Fidelity Visuo-Tactile Pretraining Improves Vision-Only Manipulation Performance
Selam Gano, Abraham George, Amir Barati Farimani
Tactile perception is essential for real-world manipulation tasks, yet the high cost and fragility of tactile sensors can limit their practicality. In this work, we explore BeadSig…
cs.RO2024
VITaL Pretraining: Visuo-Tactile Pretraining for Tactile and Non-Tactile Manipulation Policies
Abraham George, Selam Gano, Pranav Katragadda +1
Tactile information is a critical tool for dexterous manipulation. As humans, we rely heavily on tactile information to understand objects in our environments and how to interact w…
cs.RO2024
BeadSight: An Inexpensive Tactile Sensor Using Hydro-Gel Beads
Abraham George, Yibo Chen, Atharva Dikshit +2
In robotic manipulation, tactile sensors are indispensable, especially when dealing with soft objects, objects of varying dimensions, or those out of the robot's direct line of sig…