Collaborative Learning and Adaptive Robots (CLeAR) Lab.
The ability of humans to navigate our environment is heavily dependent on the quality and speed of sensing. Tactile sensing, or the sensation of touch and pressure, is especially important for both coarse and fine object manipulation tasks, such as handling parcels and writing. Humans utilize tactile sensing data in real time for muscle path planning, fast tactile perception, tacto-object recognition, and overall human mobility. Similarly, robots tasked with service activities that require interacting with humans or objects require fast and reliable tactile feedback. At CLeAR, we are particularly interested in how perception with next-generation skin can be used to enhance physical human-robot interaction for trustworthy collaboration.
We have won the Best Paper Award at the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) 2021 in October. IROS is a premier flagship academic conference in robotics and on...
We show that robots can extend their perception through grasped tools/objects via dynamic tactile sensing.
Accurate, Fast, and Low-powered Multi-Sensory Perception via Neuromorphic Sensing and Learning
We propose a Spiking Graph Neural Network to take into account taxel geometry.
We show that robots achieve fast classification of textures through Neural Encoding and Spiking Neural Network.
We show that iCub robot classifies the surface textures with both sliding and touch movements under loose constraints with high accuracy.
