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Neel Patel¹, Rwik Rana¹, Deepesh Kumar²

¹Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar, Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India.

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Summary

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SuperTac enhances artificial tactile sensor resolution, improving texture classification by 17%. This novel framework achieves super-resolution tactile perception for advanced robotic applications.

Keywords:

mechanoreceptors robotic finger tactile sensor tactile super-resolution texture variational autoencoder

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Area of Science:

Robotics and Artificial Intelligence
Biomimetic Engineering
Sensor Technology

Background:

Tactile sensing in robotics and prosthetics faces limitations due to the spatial-temporal resolution trade-off in artificial sensors.
Existing methods struggle to enhance tactile perception without performance degradation.

Purpose of the Study:

To introduce SuperTac, a novel tactile super-resolution framework designed to overcome inherent sensor resolution limits.
To improve tactile perception for enhanced robotic manipulation and object recognition.

Main Methods:

Developed an active robotic finger system with a 4x4 tactile sensor array for spatiotemporal data acquisition.
Integrated a Variational Autoencoder for dimensionality reduction and Residual-In-Residual Blocks for high-quality upsampling.
Implemented the SuperTac framework to generate super-resolved tactile images (16x16) from raw sensor data.

Main Results:

Achieved a fourfold improvement in spatial resolution, producing 16x16 super-resolved tactile images.
Demonstrated a 17% increase in texture classification accuracy using super-resolved data compared to raw data.
Maintained computational efficiency for real-time robotic applications.

Conclusions:

SuperTac effectively enhances tactile perception beyond sensor capabilities, offering significant improvements in texture classification.
The framework shows strong potential for advancing robotic manipulation, object recognition, and haptic exploration.
SuperTac represents a significant step towards bridging the gap between human and robotic tactile sensing capabilities.