Based on a distributed architecture for real-time collection and broadcast of haptic information to multiple participants, heterogeneous haptic devices (the PHANToM and the CyberG...
Margaret McLaughlin, Gaurav S. Sukhatme, Wei Peng,...
— It is frequently accepted in the manipulation literature that tactile sensing is needed to improve the precision of robot manipulation. However, there is no consensus on how th...
Object grasping is a typical human ability which is widely studied from both a biological and an engineering point of view. This paper presents an approach to grasp synthesis inspi...
Texture segmentation is an effortless process in scene analysis, yet its mechanisms have not been sufficiently understood. A common assumption in most current approaches is that t...
We consider the problem of grasping novel objects, specifically ones that are being seen for the first time through vision. Grasping a previously unknown object, one for which a 3...