Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Francois Robert Hogan

Gregory Lewis Dudek

Michael Jenkin

Xue Liu

Alberto Rodriguez Garcia

David Meger

Amal Feriani

Kaleem Siddiqi

Trevor Ablett

Charlotte Morissette

Yogesh Girdhar

Affan Jilani

Sahand Rezaei-Shoshtari

A method performed by an electronic device, includes: obtaining an image of a set of markers; based on the image, detecting an arrangement of the set of markers; based on the arrangement of the set of markers, performing a measurement about a deformation of the set of markers; based on the measurement about the deformation of the set of markers, generating a plurality of signals; transforming the plurality of signals to a plurality of input commands. The plurality of input commands are used to control the electronic device.

Continuous tactile feedback for electronic devices

A method performed by an optical tactile sensor comprising a camera, includes: measuring a plurality of relations between the optical tactile sensor and an object; detecting a contact of a membrane on the object; detecting a plurality of markers on the membrane; performing a plurality of first operations by using a tactile perception module; and performing a second operation by using a three-dimensional (3D) perception module, based on a result of the performing of the plurality of first operations.

Optical tactile sensor and method for estimating shape from touch

Systems and methods relating to tactile dexterity and control are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method of manipulating an object based on tactile sensing includes sensing an object by receiving signals from a tactile sensor of an end effector of a robotic system in contact with the object, controlling a contact state by operating the end effector to enforce a desired contact condition between the end effector and the object, estimating a pose of the object based on the received signals, and planning at least one trajectory of the object based on the estimated pose of the object and a desired pose of the object.

Tactile dexterity and control

A method of sensing an interaction with an object using a semitransparent tactile surface (STS) sensor having an image sensor and a semitransparent membrane includes capturing, by the image sensor, a stream of images; separating the stream of images into a visual stream including light traveling through the semitransparent membrane and a tactile stream including light reflecting off of the semitransparent membrane; and processing the visual stream and tactile stream through a multimodal deep neural network.

Semitransparent tactile surface sensor and a method of sensing an interaction with an object using the semitransparent tactile surface sensor

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Francois Robert Hogan