Optimizing BioTac Simulation for Realistic Tactile Perception

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OriginalspracheEnglisch
Titel des Sammelwerks2024 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks
UntertitelIJCNN 2024 - Proceedings
Herausgeber (Verlag)Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Seitenumfang8
ISBN (elektronisch)9798350359312
ISBN (Print)979-8-3503-5932-9
PublikationsstatusVeröffentlicht - 2024
Veranstaltung2024 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, IJCNN 2024 - Yokohama, Japan
Dauer: 30 Juni 20245 Juli 2024

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Tactile sensing presents a promising opportunity for enhancing the interaction capabilities of today's robots. BioTac is a commonly used tactile sensor that enables robots to perceive and respond to physical tactile stimuli. However, the sensor's non-linearity poses challenges in simulating its behavior. In this paper, we first investigate a BioTac simulation that uses temperature, force, and contact point positions to predict the sensor outputs. We show that training with BioTac temperature readings does not yield accurate sensor output predictions during deployment. Consequently, we tested three alternative models, i.e., an XGBoost regressor, a neural network, and a transformer encoder. We train these models without temperature readings and provide a detailed investigation of the window size of the input vectors. We demonstrate that we achieve statistically significant improvements over the baseline network. Furthermore, our results reveal that the XGBoost regressor and transformer outperform traditional feed-forward neural networks in this task. We make all our code and results available online on https://github.com/wzaielamri/Optimizing-BioTac-Simulation.

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Optimizing BioTac Simulation for Realistic Tactile Perception. / El Amri, Wadhah Zai; Navarro-Guerrero, Nicolás.
2024 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks: IJCNN 2024 - Proceedings. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2024.

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El Amri, WZ & Navarro-Guerrero, N 2024, Optimizing BioTac Simulation for Realistic Tactile Perception. in 2024 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks: IJCNN 2024 - Proceedings. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2024 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, IJCNN 2024, Yokohama, Japan, 30 Juni 2024. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2404.10425, https://doi.org/10.1109/IJCNN60899.2024.10650656
El Amri, W. Z., & Navarro-Guerrero, N. (2024). Optimizing BioTac Simulation for Realistic Tactile Perception. In 2024 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks: IJCNN 2024 - Proceedings Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2404.10425, https://doi.org/10.1109/IJCNN60899.2024.10650656
El Amri WZ, Navarro-Guerrero N. Optimizing BioTac Simulation for Realistic Tactile Perception. in 2024 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks: IJCNN 2024 - Proceedings. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. 2024 doi: 10.48550/arXiv.2404.10425, 10.1109/IJCNN60899.2024.10650656
El Amri, Wadhah Zai ; Navarro-Guerrero, Nicolás. / Optimizing BioTac Simulation for Realistic Tactile Perception. 2024 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks: IJCNN 2024 - Proceedings. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2024.
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