OpenTac：カスタマイズ可能でスケーラブルな3D触覚センシングのオープンエコシステム
OpenTac: An Open Ecosystem for Customizable, Scalable, and Transferable 3D Tactile Sensing
テキストや2D輪郭から自動設計できる抵抗式触覚スキンと、シミュレータ・転送学習・高速データ取得を含むエコシステムを構築し、30以上のロボット実装で3D触覚を活用した制御とマニピュレーション学習を実証した論文。
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著者: Ariel Slepyan, Geeta Chandra Raju Bethala, Jiafeng Gu, Anagha Rajendra Dangle, Yinzhe Zhou, Hongyuan Fu, Jade Sim, Tuhin Basu, Xinyi Yin, Md Faizal Karim, Gregory Hager, Homanga Bharadhwaj, Anand Bhattad, Krishna Murthy Jatavallabhula, Nitish V. Thakor
分類: cs.RO, eess.SP, eess.SY
原文アブストラクト
We present OpenTac, a novel sensor and a full-stack ecosystem for tactile skins that are highly customizable, scalable, and readily deployed in downstream robot control and learning applications. Our core contribution is twofold. First, we develop a scalable resistive tactile skin with a structured deformable overlay that converts tangential loading into spatially varying pressure. Differential responses across neighboring "taxels" support decoding of local shear vectors, and the common-mode response encodes normal force. Second, we provide a highly customizable sensor design tool that is able to automatically generate fabrication files for these tactile skins from 2D outlines and developable 3D surfaces, including from abstract descriptions such as text (e.g., "design a sensor for a size 9 shoe insole"). We develop an ecosystem around the OpenTac sensor, including the CAD design tool, a sensor simulator, cross-sensor transfer, and fast/adaptive data acquisition. We demonstrate the broad applicability of the OpenTac-CAD sensor design tool by designing and fabricating more than 30 sensors across a variety of robot embodiments. We characterize the three-dimensional tactile fields produced by OpenTac with a commercial, high-precision force/torque sensor. We demonstrate the broad applicability of 3D tactile sensing across contact-rich feedback control and manipulation policy learning on four real-world robot embodiments. Additionally, adaptive acquisition enables kilohertz-rate partial readouts, exceeding full-array raster scanning on the same sensor by 19.2X at 16 sampled taxels per update for a 1024-taxel skin. We provide all hardware, software, and result videos are at opentac.github.io