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Development and Evaluation of a Learning-based Model for Real-time Haptic Texture Rendering
Negin Heravi, Heather Culbertson, Allison M. Okamura +1
Current Virtual Reality (VR) environments lack the rich haptic signals that humans experience during real-life interactions, such as the sensation of texture during lateral movemen…
A Multi-Segment, Soft Growing Robot with Selective Steering
Alexander M. Kübler, Sebastián Urdaneta Rivera, Frances B. Raphael +3
Everting, soft growing vine robots benefit from reduced friction with their environment, which allows them to navigate challenging terrain. Vine robots can use air pouches attached…
A Modular 3-Degree-of-Freedom Force Sensor for Robot-assisted Minimally Invasive Surgery Research
Zonghe Chua, Allison M. Okamura
Effective force modulation during tissue manipulation is important for ensuring safe robot-assisted minimally invasive surgery (RMIS). Strict requirements for in-vivo distal force…
Leveraging Haptic Feedback to Improve Data Quality and Quantity for Deep Imitation Learning Models
Catie Cuan, Allison Okamura, Mohi Khansari
Learning from demonstration is a proven technique to teach robots new skills. Data quality and quantity play a critical role in the performance of models trained using data collect…
Deep Learning Classification of Touch Gestures Using Distributed Normal and Shear Force
Hojung Choi, Dane Brouwer, Michael A. Lin +5
When humans socially interact with another agent (e.g., human, pet, or robot) through touch, they do so by applying varying amounts of force with different directions, locations, c…
Hoxels: Fully 3-D Printed Soft Multi-Modal & Multi-Contact Haptic Voxel Displays for Enriched Tactile Information Transfer
Zhenishbek Zhakypov, Yimeng Qin, Allison Okamura
Wrist-worn haptic interfaces can deliver a wide range of tactile cues for communication of information and interaction with virtual objects. Unlike fingertips, the wrist and forear…