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Towards Artificial Nerves: Biomimetic Optical-Fiber Tactile Sensing for Robots
Laura E. Butcher, Chris J. Ford, Nathan F. Lepora +1
Robotic systems increasingly demand tactile sensing that approaches the adaptability and resolution of human skin to enable dexterous manipulation and safe interaction. OptiTac is…
How to Train your Tactile Model: Tactile Perception with Multi-fingered Robot Hands
Christopher J. Ford, Kaichen Shi, Laura Butcher +2
Rapid deployment of new tactile sensors is essential for scalable robotic manipulation, especially in multi-fingered hands equipped with vision-based tactile sensors. However, curr…
SoftHand Model-W: A 3D-Printed, Anthropomorphic, Underactuated Robot Hand with Integrated Wrist and Carpal Tunnel
Dhillon B. Merritt, Christopher J. Ford, Haoran Li +4
This paper presents the SoftHand Model-W: a 3D-printed, underactuated, anthropomorphic robot hand based on the Pisa/IIT SoftHand, with an integrated antagonistic tendon mechanism a…
Shear-based Grasp Control for Multi-fingered Underactuated Tactile Robotic Hands
Christopher J. Ford, Haoran Li, Manuel G. Catalano +3
This paper presents a shear-based control scheme for grasping and manipulating delicate objects with a Pisa/IIT anthropomorphic SoftHand equipped with soft biomimetic tactile senso…
Tactile SoftHand-A: 3D-Printed, Tactile, Highly-underactuated, Anthropomorphic Robot Hand with an Antagonistic Tendon Mechanism
Haoran Li, Christopher J. Ford, Chenghua Lu +5
A challenging and important problem for tendon-driven multi-fingered robotic hands is to ensure grasping adaptivity while minimizing the number of actuators needed to provide human…
AnyRotate: Gravity-Invariant In-Hand Object Rotation with Sim-to-Real Touch
Max Yang, Chenghua Lu, Alex Church +6
Human hands are capable of in-hand manipulation in the presence of different hand motions. For a robot hand, harnessing rich tactile information to achieve this level of dexterity…
An Overview of Robotic Grippers
Mr Thomas J. Cairnes, Mr Christopher J. Ford, Dr Efi Psomopoulou +1
The development of robotic grippers is driven by the need to execute particular manual tasks or meet specific objectives in handling operations. Grippers with specific functions va…
Tactile-Driven Gentle Grasping for Human-Robot Collaborative Tasks
Christopher J. Ford, Haoran Li, John Lloyd +4
This paper presents a control scheme for force sensitive, gentle grasping with a Pisa/IIT anthropomorphic SoftHand equipped with a miniaturised version of the TacTip optical tactil…
BRL/Pisa/IIT SoftHand: A Low-cost, 3D-Printed, Underactuated, Tendon-Driven Hand with Soft and Adaptive Synergies
Haoran Li, Christopher J. Ford, Matteo Bianchi +3
This paper introduces the BRL/Pisa/IIT (BPI) SoftHand: a single actuator-driven, low-cost, 3D-printed, tendon-driven, underactuated robot hand that can be used to perform a range o…