Robotic surface exploration with vision and tactile sensing for cracks detection and characterisation

no code implementations • 13 Jul 2023 • Francesca Palermo, Bukeikhan Omarali, Changae Oh, Kaspar Althoefer, Ildar Farkhatdinov

In order to validate the complete algorithm, various experiments are performed: comparison of exploration of cracks through full scan and motion planning algorithm, implementation of frequency-based features for crack classification and geometry analysis using a combination of vision and tactile data.

Motion Planning object-detection +1

A Miniaturised Camera-based Multi-Modal Tactile Sensor

no code implementations • 6 Mar 2023 • Kaspar Althoefer, Yonggen Ling, Wanlin Li, Xinyuan Qian, Wang Wei Lee, Peng Qi

The human tactile system is composed of various types of mechanoreceptors, each able to perceive and process distinct information such as force, pressure, texture, etc.

Knock-Knock: Acoustic Object Recognition by using Stacked Denoising Autoencoders

no code implementations • 15 Aug 2017 • Shan Luo, Leqi Zhu, Kaspar Althoefer, Hongbin Liu

A traditional method using handcrafted features with a shallow classifier was taken as a benchmark and the attained recognition rate was only 58. 22%.

Denoising Object +1