Neuromorphic Tactile Edge Orientation Classification in an Unsupervised Spiking Neural Network

Autor: Fraser L. A. Macdonald, Nathan F. Lepora, Jörg Conradt, Benjamin Ward-Cherrier

Publikováno v: Sensors, Vol 22, Iss 18, p 6998 (2022)

Dexterous manipulation in robotic hands relies on an accurate sense of artificial touch. Here we investigate neuromorphic tactile sensation with an event-based optical tactile sensor combined with spiking neural networks for edge orientation detectio

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Temporal and Spatio-temporal domains for Neuromorphic Tactile Texture Classification

Autor: George Brayshaw, Benjamin Ward-Cherrier, Martin Pearson

Publikováno v: Brayshaw, G, Ward-Cherrier, B & Pearson, M 2022, Temporal and Spatio-temporal domains for Neuromorphic Tactile Texture Classification . in Proceedings of the 2022 Annual Neuro-Inspired Computational Elements Conference, NICE 2022 : Neuro-Inspired Computational Elements Conference . ACM International Conference Proceeding Series, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), pp. 50-57, NICE 2022: Neuro-Inspired Computational Elements Conference, 28/03/22 . https://doi.org/10.1145/3517343.3517356

The development of upper limb prosthesis that are able to relay information on their status back to the user is an important step towards making this assistive technology more intuitive. Applied within this context, neuromorphic hardware has the pote

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https://doi.org/10.1145/3517343.3517356

Towards integrated tactile sensorimotor control in anthropomorphic soft robotic hands

Autor: Chris Ford, Andrew Stinchcombe, Alfred Brown, Manuel G. Catalano, Benjamin Ward-Cherrier, John W. Lloyd, Nathan F. Lepora, Matteo Bianchi

Publikováno v: ICRA
ICRA 2021
2021 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)

In this work, we report on the integrated sensorimotor control of the Pisa/IIT SoftHand, an anthropomorphic soft robot hand designed around the principle of adaptive synergies, with the BRL tactile fingertip (TacTip), a soft biomimetic optical tactil

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https://doi.org/10.1109/icra48506.2021.9561350

NeuroTac: A Neuromorphic Optical Tactile Sensor applied to Texture Recognition

Autor: Nathan F. Lepora, Nicholas Pestell, Benjamin Ward-Cherrier

Publikováno v: ICRA

Developing artificial tactile sensing capabilities that rival human touch is a long-term goal in robotics and prosthetics. Gradually more elaborate biomimetic tactile sensors are being developed and applied to grasping and manipulation tasks to help

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Addition of a biomimetic fingerprint on an artificial fingertip enhances tactile spatial acuity

Autor: Nathan F. Lepora, Luke Cramphorn, Benjamin Ward-Cherrier

Publikováno v: Cramphorn, L, Ward-Cherrier, B P J & Lepora, N F 2017, ' Addition of a biomimetic fingerprint on an artificial fingertip enhances tactile spatial acuity ', IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 2, no. 3, pp. 1336-1343 . https://doi.org/10.1109/LRA.2017.2665690

The fingerprint is a morphological aspect of the human fingertip that has interesting implications for our sense of touch. Previous studies focused on how the fingerprint affects the perception of stimuli that excite high temporal frequencies, such a

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https://hdl.handle.net/1983/9e16a152-c207-43a6-800d-ae5b5def3c1e