Soft, Round, High Resolution Tactile Fingertip Sensors for Dexterous Robotic Manipulation

Branden Romero,Filipe Veiga,Edward Adelson,Branden Romero,Filipe Veiga,Edward Adelson

High resolution tactile sensors are often bulky and have shape profiles that make them awkward for use in manipulation. This becomes important when using such sensors as fingertips for dexterous multi-fingered hands, where boxy or planar fingertips limit the available set of smooth manipulation strategies. High resolution optical based sensors such as GelSight have until now been constrained to re...