Tactile-based active object discrimination and target object search in an unknown workspace

Tactile-based active object discrimination and target object search in an unknown workspace

The tasks of exploring unknown workspaces and recognizing objects based on their physical properties are challenging for autonomous robots. In this paper, we present strategies solely based on tactile information to enable robots to accomplish such tasks. (1) An active exploration approach for the robot to explore unknown workspaces; (2) an active touch objects learning method that enables the ...

Active Tactile Object Recognition by Monte Carlo Tree Search

This paper considers the problem of active object recognition using touch only. The focus is on adaptively selecting a sequence of wrist poses that achieves accurate recognition by enclosure grasps. It seeks to minimize the number of touches and maximize recognition confidence. The actions are formulated as wrist poses relative to each other, making the algorithm independent of absolute workspa...

Active Tactile Transfer Learning for Object Discrimination in an Unstructured Environment Using Multimodal Robotic Skin

In this paper, we propose a probabilistic active tactile transfer learning (ATTL) method to enable robotic systems to exploit their prior tactile knowledge while discriminating among objects via their physical properties (surface texture, stiffness, and thermal conductivity). Using the proposed method, the robot autonomously selects and exploits its most relevant prior tactile knowledge to effi...

Active Object Search Exploiting Probabilistic Object-Object Relations

This paper proposes a probabilistic object-object relation based approach for an active object search. An important role of mobile robots will be to perform object-related tasks and active object search strategies deal with the non-trivial task of finding an object in unstructured and dynamically changing environments. This work builds further upon an existing approach exploiting probabilistic ...

Object - based target templates guide attention during visual search