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Whisker-Inspired Tactile Sensing: A Sim2Real Approach for Precise Underwater Contact Tracking
Hao Li, Chengyi Xing, Saad Khan +2
Aquatic mammals, such as pinnipeds, utilize their whiskers to detect and discriminate objects and analyze water movements, inspiring the development of robotic whiskers for sensing…
Locomotion as Manipulation with ReachBot
Tony G. Chen, Stephanie Newdick, Julia Di +5
Caves and lava tubes on the Moon and Mars are sites of geological and astrobiological interest but consist of terrain that is inaccessible with traditional robot locomotion. To sup…
Martian Exploration of Lava Tubes (MELT) with ReachBot: Scientific Investigation and Concept of Operations
Julia Di, Sara Cuevas-Quinones, Stephanie Newdick +4
As natural access points to the subsurface, lava tubes and other caves have become premier targets of planetary missions for astrobiological analyses. Few existing robotic paradigm…
Navigation and 3D Surface Reconstruction from Passive Whisker Sensing
Michael A. Lin, Hao Li, Chengyi Xing +1
Whiskers provide a way to sense surfaces in the immediate environment without disturbing it. In this paper we present a method for using highly flexible, curved, passive whiskers m…
ReachBot Field Tests in a Mojave Desert Lava Tube as a Martian Analog
Tony G. Chen, Julia Di, Stephanie Newdick +3
ReachBot is a robot concept for the planetary exploration of caves and lava tubes, which are often inaccessible with traditional robot locomotion methods. It uses extendable booms…
Grasp as You Say: Language-guided Dexterous Grasp Generation
Yi-Lin Wei, Jian-Jian Jiang, Chengyi Xing +5
This paper explores a novel task "Dexterous Grasp as You Say" (DexGYS), enabling robots to perform dexterous grasping based on human commands expressed in natural language. However…
Task-Driven Manipulation with Reconfigurable Parallel Robots
Daniel Morton, Mark Cutkosky, Marco Pavone
ReachBot, a proposed robotic platform, employs extendable booms as limbs for mobility in challenging environments, such as martian caves. When attached to the environment, ReachBot…
Using Fiber Optic Bundles to Miniaturize Vision-Based Tactile Sensors
Julia Di, Zdravko Dugonjic, Will Fu +11
Vision-based tactile sensors have recently become popular due to their combination of low cost, very high spatial resolution, and ease of integration using widely available miniatu…
Tactile-Informed Action Primitives Mitigate Jamming in Dense Clutter
Dane Brouwer, Joshua Citron, Hojung Choi +4
It is difficult for robots to retrieve objects in densely cluttered lateral access scenes with movable objects as jamming against adjacent objects and walls can inhibit progress. W…