Metallic Ultrasound Waveguides as a Distributed Tactile Sensing Platform for Contact Localization, Force Estimation, and Material Class Discrimination

Alexandros Rosakis, Alessio Tamborini, Basile Fakhoury +2

Tactile sensing is central to how robotic systems interact with the real world, yet current solutions face a tradeoff between sensing area and system complexity. This work investig…