Tactile perception is a critical sensory modality for intelligent robots, and the hardware foundation of tactile perception—tactile sensors—is a key core component for humanoid robots, listed among the 35 "bottleneck" technologies. Whether in intelligent assembly in factories, home assistance scenarios, or in-orbit services in space, and special operations in the deep sea, tactile perception is the key basis for intelligent robots to deal with complex physical contact behaviors in tasks, thus endowing them with sensitive tactile perception capabilities has profound practical significance and academic value. There is a significant gap between the research on traditional array tactile sensors based on principles such as piezoelectricity and pressure sensing and the actual needs of robotic dexterous manipulation. Therefore, it is necessary to develop new tactile perception principles to create tactile sensors for robots that can perceive like human hands and to build the key theoretical and methodological foundation for the integration of tactile sensing and robotic manipulation. The aforementioned theories and methods are inseparable from a deep understanding of contact mechanics and dynamics, as well as the construction and solution of tactile perception inverse problems. This report will introduce the latest research progress in this field by the presenter.

Speaker

A/Prof. Daolin Ma

School of Ocean and Civil Engineering, SJTU

Time

 2024.12.11 12:00-13:30