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most citedPrecise Robotic Needle-Threading with Tactile Perception and Reinforcement Learning

3 citations · 4 across the 12 of their papers we have counts for

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13 papers

cs.RO2026

DeTac: Dual-branch Decoupling of Texture and Force Signals in Vision-Based Tactile Sensors

Zhirui Zhang, Yunkai Tang, Jiahang Li +6

Vision-based tactile sensors enable fine-grained perception for dexterous robotic manipulation, but current marker-based designs tightly couple surface texture and contact force si…

cs.RO2026

TactileReflex: Noise-Statistics-Driven Vision-Tactile Reflex Control for Force-Sensitive Manipulation

Ziyan Feng, Yulong Fu, Zheng Li +6

Manipulating fragile deformable containers, such as disposable plastic cups filled with liquid, demands real-time grip-force adaptation within an extremely narrow force margin: ins…

cs.RO2026

TAMEn: Tactile-Aware Manipulation Engine for Closed-Loop Data Collection in Contact-Rich Tasks

Longyan Wu, Jieji Ren, Chenghang Jiang +6

Handheld paradigms offer an efficient and intuitive way for collecting large-scale demonstration of robot manipulation. However, achieving contact-rich bimanual manipulation throug…

cs.CV2026

Near-Light Color Photometric Stereo for Mono-Chromatic Non-Lambertian Surfaces

Zonglin Li, Jieji Ren, Shuangfan Zhou +6

Color photometric stereo enables single-shot surface reconstruction, extending conventional photometric stereo that requires multiple images of a static scene under varying illumin…

cs.RO2025

MILE: A Mechanically Isomorphic Hand Exoskeleton and Visuotactile Robotic Hand for Data Collection in Dexterous Manipulation

Jinda Du, Jieji Ren, Qiaojun Yu +6

Dexterous robotic hands perform complex, contact-rich manipulation. Imitation learning provides a route to such skills, but collecting human demonstrations with accurate hand actio…

cs.RO2025

SuckTac: Camera-based Tactile Sucker for Unstructured Surface Perception and Interaction

Ruiyong Yuan, Jieji Ren, Zhanxuan Peng +2

Suckers are significant for robots in picking, transferring, manipulation and locomotion on diverse surfaces. However, most of the existing suckers lack high-fidelity perceptual an…

cs.RO2025★ 1 cited

FreeTacMan: Robot-free Visuo-Tactile Data Collection System for Contact-rich Manipulation

Longyan Wu, Checheng Yu, Jieji Ren +5

Enabling robots with contact-rich manipulation remains a pivotal challenge in robot learning, which is substantially hindered by the data collection gap, including its inefficiency…

cs.RO2025

Reactive Diffusion Policy: Slow-Fast Visual-Tactile Policy Learning for Contact-Rich Manipulation

Han Xue, Jieji Ren, Wendi Chen +5

Humans can accomplish complex contact-rich tasks using vision and touch, with highly reactive capabilities such as fast response to external changes and adaptive control of contact…

cs.RO2025

Look-to-Touch: A Vision-Enhanced Proximity and Tactile Sensor for Distance and Geometry Perception in Robotic Manipulation

Yueshi Dong, Jieji Ren, Zhenle Liu +4

Camera-based tactile sensors provide robots with a high-performance tactile sensing approach for environment perception and dexterous manipulation. However, achieving comprehensive…

cs.RO2024

SymmeTac: Symmetric Color LED Driven Efficient Photometric Stereo Reconstruction Methods for Camera-based Tactile Sensors

Jieji Ren, Heng Guo, Zaiyan Yang +6

Camera-based tactile sensors can provide high-density surface geometry and force information for robots in the interaction process with the target. However, most existing methods c…

cs.RO2023

TacIPC: Intersection- and Inversion-free FEM-based Elastomer Simulation For Optical Tactile Sensors

Wenxin Du, Wenqiang Xu, Jieji Ren +2

Tactile perception stands as a critical sensory modality for human interaction with the environment. Among various tactile sensor techniques, optical sensor-based approaches have g…

cs.RO2023

Differentiable Fluid Physics Parameter Identification Via Stirring

Wenqiang Xu, Dongzhe Zheng, Yutong Li +2

Fluid interactions permeate daily human activities, with properties like density and viscosity playing pivotal roles in household tasks. While density estimation is straightforward…

cs.RO2023★ 3 cited

Precise Robotic Needle-Threading with Tactile Perception and Reinforcement Learning

Zhenjun Yu, Wenqiang Xu, Siqiong Yao +5

This work presents a novel tactile perception-based method, named T-NT, for performing the needle-threading task, an application of deformable linear object (DLO) manipulation. Thi…