ThinTact:Thin Vision-Based Tactile Sensor by Lensless Imaging

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Autori principali: Xu, Jing, Chen, Weihang, Qian, Hongyu, Wu, Dan, Chen, Rui
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author Xu, Jing
Chen, Weihang
Qian, Hongyu
Wu, Dan
Chen, Rui
author_facet Xu, Jing
Chen, Weihang
Qian, Hongyu
Wu, Dan
Chen, Rui
contents Vision-based tactile sensors have drawn increasing interest in the robotics community. However, traditional lens-based designs impose minimum thickness constraints on these sensors, limiting their applicability in space-restricted settings. In this paper, we propose ThinTact, a novel lensless vision-based tactile sensor with a sensing field of over 200 mm2 and a thickness of less than 10 mm.ThinTact utilizes the mask-based lensless imaging technique to map the contact information to CMOS signals. To ensure real-time tactile sensing, we propose a real-time lensless reconstruction algorithm that leverages a frequency-spatial-domain joint filter based on discrete cosine transform (DCT). This algorithm achieves computation significantly faster than existing optimization-based methods. Additionally, to improve the sensing quality, we develop a mask optimization method based on the generic algorithm and the corresponding system matrix calibration algorithm.We evaluate the performance of our proposed lensless reconstruction and tactile sensing through qualitative and quantitative experiments. Furthermore, we demonstrate ThinTact's practical applicability in diverse applications, including texture recognition and contact-rich object manipulation. The paper will appear in the IEEE Transactions on Robotics: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10842357. Video: https://youtu.be/YrOO9BDMAHo
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spellingShingle ThinTact:Thin Vision-Based Tactile Sensor by Lensless Imaging
Xu, Jing
Chen, Weihang
Qian, Hongyu
Wu, Dan
Chen, Rui
Robotics
Vision-based tactile sensors have drawn increasing interest in the robotics community. However, traditional lens-based designs impose minimum thickness constraints on these sensors, limiting their applicability in space-restricted settings. In this paper, we propose ThinTact, a novel lensless vision-based tactile sensor with a sensing field of over 200 mm2 and a thickness of less than 10 mm.ThinTact utilizes the mask-based lensless imaging technique to map the contact information to CMOS signals. To ensure real-time tactile sensing, we propose a real-time lensless reconstruction algorithm that leverages a frequency-spatial-domain joint filter based on discrete cosine transform (DCT). This algorithm achieves computation significantly faster than existing optimization-based methods. Additionally, to improve the sensing quality, we develop a mask optimization method based on the generic algorithm and the corresponding system matrix calibration algorithm.We evaluate the performance of our proposed lensless reconstruction and tactile sensing through qualitative and quantitative experiments. Furthermore, we demonstrate ThinTact's practical applicability in diverse applications, including texture recognition and contact-rich object manipulation. The paper will appear in the IEEE Transactions on Robotics: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10842357. Video: https://youtu.be/YrOO9BDMAHo
title ThinTact:Thin Vision-Based Tactile Sensor by Lensless Imaging
topic Robotics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.09273