Swetha Tirumala
Mechanical engineering
Hometown: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Graduation date: Spring 2025
MORE | Spring 2025
Design of a Low-Cost Tactile Sensing System for Robotic Manipulation
Tactile sensing is crucial for humans to interact with the environment and perform everyday tasks, and feedback from tactile sensors is important for robotic hands to achieve similar manipulation capabilities. Existing tactile sensors are bulky, expensive and not universally adaptable to all robotic hands. This research project aims to design flexible, lightweight and low-cost tactile sensor pads that can be integrated to any robotic hand. These sensor pads are made from piezoresistive material that is flexible, easy to integrate and provides full coverage of key areas on the hand, enabling efficient interactions and enhancing manipulation capabilities.
Mentor: Wanxin Jin
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