Stanford Seminar - Get in Touch: Tactile Perception for Human-Robot Systems

This seminar examines task-driven tactile perception for robots, including biological touch strategies, tactile sensor designs, and how sensor data supports grasping and manipulation. It also discusses potential applications in human-robot interaction, remote work, and social-physical interaction.

Syllabus

Introduction
Characterization of human strategies for grasp, manipulation, and haptic search
Biological mechanoreceptors
Microfluidic tactile sensor skins
Camera-based, elastomeric tactile sensors
Fluidic, multimodal tactile sensors
Haptic perception necessitates the abstraction of tactile sensor data generated by known actions.
Tactile perception of directionality
Tactile perception within granular media
Learning hard-to-code skills: Closing a ziplock bag
Preparations for reinforcement learning
Page flipping behaviors affect tactile sensor data
Exciting directions in robotics related to touch and social-physical interactions