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Fiber Bragg Grating Whiskers for Bioinspired Hydrodynamic Perception on Underwater Robots
Hao Li, Tianyu Tu, Siyue Yao +7
Harbor seals track hydrodynamic trails with their vibrissae, enabling passive perception of moving targets in dark or turbid water. Inspired by this capability, we present compact…
SLAP: Slapband-based Autonomous Perching Drone with Failure Recovery for Vertical Tree Trunks
Julia Di, Kenneth A. W. Hoffmann, Tony G. Chen +2
Perching allows unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to reduce energy consumption, remain anchored for surface sampling operations, or stably survey their surroundings. Previous efforts…
Multimodal Sensing for Robot-Assisted Sub-Tissue Feature Detection in Physiotherapy Palpation
Tian-Ao Ren, Jorge Garcia, Seongheon Hong +6
Robotic palpation relies on force sensing, but force signals in soft-tissue environments are variable and cannot reliably reveal subtle subsurface features. We present a compact mu…
TacCap: A Wearable FBG-Based Tactile Sensor for Seamless Human-to-Robot Skill Transfer
Chengyi Xing, Hao Li, Yi-Lin Wei +6
Tactile sensing is essential for dexterous manipulation, yet large-scale human demonstration datasets lack tactile feedback, limiting their effectiveness in skill transfer to robot…