Active Tactile Exploration using Shape-Dependent Reinforcement Learning

Shuo Jiang,Lawson L.S. Wong,Shuo Jiang,Lawson L.S. Wong

Tactile signals provide rich information about objects via touch and are essential for a robot to perform dex-terous manipulation. Exploring actively via tactile perception collects important information about the workspace. However, designing an effective tactile exploration policy is challenging in unstructured environments. Typically, the geometric information is incomplete, and need to be comp...