Tactile features: recognising touch sensations with a novel and inexpensive tactile sensor

Tadeo Corradi, Peter Hall, Pejman Iravani

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Abstract

A simple and cost effective new tactile sensor is presented, based on a camera capturing images of the shading of a deformable rubber membrane. In Computer Vision, the issue of information encoding and classification is well studied. In this paper we explore different ways of encoding tactile images, including: Hu moments, Zernike Moments, Principal Component Analysis (PCA), Zernike PCA, and vectorized scaling. These encodings are tested by performing tactile shape recognition using a number of supervised approaches (Nearest Neighbor, Artificial Neural Networks, Support Vector Machines, Naive Bayes). In conclusion: the most effective way of representing tactile information is achieved by combining Zernike Moments and PCA, and the most accurate classifier is Nearest Neighbor, with which the system achieves a high degree (96.4%) of accuracy at recognising seven basic shapes.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationAdvances in Autonomous Robotics Systems
Subtitle of host publicationLecture Notes in Computer Science
EditorsM. Mistry, A. Leonardis, M. Witkowski, C. Melhuish
PublisherSpringer
Pages163-172
Number of pages10
ISBN (Print)9783319104003
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2014
EventProceedings of the 15th Annual Conference, TAROS, 2014 - Birmingham, UK United Kingdom
Duration: 1 Sept 20143 Sept 2014

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics
Volume8717

Conference

ConferenceProceedings of the 15th Annual Conference, TAROS, 2014
Country/TerritoryUK United Kingdom
CityBirmingham
Period1/09/143/09/14

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