Acoustic tactile sensing for mobile robot wheels
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| author | Mason, Wilfred Brenken, David Dai, Falcon Z. Castillo, Ricardo Gonzalo Cruz Cormier, Olivier St-Martin Sedal, Audrey |
| author_facet | Mason, Wilfred Brenken, David Dai, Falcon Z. Castillo, Ricardo Gonzalo Cruz Cormier, Olivier St-Martin Sedal, Audrey |
| contents | Tactile sensing in mobile robots remains under-explored, mainly due to challenges related to sensor integration and the complexities of distributed sensing. In this work, we present a tactile sensing architecture for mobile robots based on wheel-mounted acoustic waveguides. Our sensor architecture enables tactile sensing along the entire circumference of a wheel with a single active component: an off-the-shelf acoustic rangefinder. We present findings showing that our sensor, mounted on the wheel of a mobile robot, is capable of discriminating between different terrains, detecting and classifying obstacles with different geometries, and performing collision detection via contact localization. We also present a comparison between our sensor and sensors traditionally used in mobile robots, and point to the potential for sensor fusion approaches that leverage the unique capabilities of our tactile sensing architecture. Our findings demonstrate that autonomous mobile robots can further leverage our sensor architecture for diverse mapping tasks requiring knowledge of terrain material, surface topology, and underlying structure. |
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| publishDate | 2024 |
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| spellingShingle | Acoustic tactile sensing for mobile robot wheels Mason, Wilfred Brenken, David Dai, Falcon Z. Castillo, Ricardo Gonzalo Cruz Cormier, Olivier St-Martin Sedal, Audrey Robotics Tactile sensing in mobile robots remains under-explored, mainly due to challenges related to sensor integration and the complexities of distributed sensing. In this work, we present a tactile sensing architecture for mobile robots based on wheel-mounted acoustic waveguides. Our sensor architecture enables tactile sensing along the entire circumference of a wheel with a single active component: an off-the-shelf acoustic rangefinder. We present findings showing that our sensor, mounted on the wheel of a mobile robot, is capable of discriminating between different terrains, detecting and classifying obstacles with different geometries, and performing collision detection via contact localization. We also present a comparison between our sensor and sensors traditionally used in mobile robots, and point to the potential for sensor fusion approaches that leverage the unique capabilities of our tactile sensing architecture. Our findings demonstrate that autonomous mobile robots can further leverage our sensor architecture for diverse mapping tasks requiring knowledge of terrain material, surface topology, and underlying structure. |
| title | Acoustic tactile sensing for mobile robot wheels |
| topic | Robotics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.18682 |