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A Soft Robotic Gripper with Active Palm for In-Hand Object Reorientation
Thomas Mack, Ketao Zhang, Kaspar Althoefer
The human hand has an inherent ability to manipulate and re-orientate objects without external assistance. As a consequence, we are able to operate tools and perform an array of ac…
Eversion Robots for Mapping Radiation in Pipes
Thomas Mack, Mohammed Al-Dubooni, Kaspar Althoefer
A system and testing rig were designed and built to simulate the use of an eversion robot equipped with a radiation sensor to characterise an irradiated pipe prior to decommissioni…
Robotic surface exploration with vision and tactile sensing for cracks detection and characterisation
Francesca Palermo, Bukeikhan Omarali, Changae Oh +2
This paper presents a novel algorithm for crack localisation and detection based on visual and tactile analysis via fibre-optics. A finger-shaped sensor based on fibre-optics is em…
Integrating Elastic Bands to Enhance Performance for Textile Robotics
Cem Suulker, Sophie Skach, Kaspar Althoefer
The elastic bands integrated using the ruffles technique proved to be effective in enhancing the performance of the soft robotic structures. In the actuator application, the elasti…
Learning Decoupled Multi-touch Force Estimation, Localization and Stretch for Soft Capacitive E-skin
Abu Bakar Dawood, Claudio Coppola, Kaspar Althoefer
Distributed sensor arrays capable of detecting multiple spatially distributed stimuli are considered an important element in the realisation of exteroceptive and proprioceptive sof…
A Miniaturised Camera-based Multi-Modal Tactile Sensor
Kaspar Althoefer, Yonggen Ling, Wanlin Li +3
In conjunction with huge recent progress in camera and computer vision technology, camera-based sensors have increasingly shown considerable promise in relation to tactile sensing.…