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most citedMidasTouch: Monte-Carlo inference over distributions across sliding touch

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cs.RO2023★ 1 cited

RobotSweater: Scalable, Generalizable, and Customizable Machine-Knitted Tactile Skins for Robots

Zilin Si, Tianhong Catherine Yu, Katrene Morozov +2

Tactile sensing is essential for robots to perceive and react to the environment. However, it remains a challenge to make large-scale and flexible tactile skins on robots. Industri…

cs.RO2022★ 6 cited

MidasTouch: Monte-Carlo inference over distributions across sliding touch

Sudharshan Suresh, Zilin Si, Stuart Anderson +2

We present MidasTouch, a tactile perception system for online global localization of a vision-based touch sensor sliding on an object surface. This framework takes in posed tactile…

cs.RO2022

Grasp Stability Prediction with Sim-to-Real Transfer from Tactile Sensing

Zilin Si, Zirui Zhu, Arpit Agarwal +2

Robot simulation has been an essential tool for data-driven manipulation tasks. However, most existing simulation frameworks lack either efficient and accurate models of physical i…

cs.RO2021

ShapeMap 3-D: Efficient shape mapping through dense touch and vision

Sudharshan Suresh, Zilin Si, Joshua G. Mangelson +2

Knowledge of 3-D object shape is of great importance to robot manipulation tasks, but may not be readily available in unstructured environments. While vision is often occluded duri…

cs.RO2021★ 4 cited

Taxim: An Example-based Simulation Model for GelSight Tactile Sensors

Zilin Si, Wenzhen Yuan

Simulation is widely used in robotics for system verification and large-scale data collection. However, simulating sensors, including tactile sensors, has been a long-standing chal…

cs.RO2021

Improving Grasp Stability with Rotation Measurement from Tactile Sensing

Raj Kolamuri, Zilin Si, Yufan Zhang +2

Rotational displacement about the grasping point is a common grasp failure when an object is grasped at a location away from its center of gravity. Tactile sensors with soft surfac…