no code implementations • 27 Dec 2022 • Negin Heravi, Heather Culbertson, Allison M. Okamura, Jeannette Bohg
Current Virtual Reality (VR) environments lack the rich haptic signals that humans experience during real-life interactions, such as the sensation of texture during lateral movement on a surface.
1 code implementation • 8 Mar 2021 • Ioannis Exarchos, Brian H. Do, Fabio Stroppa, Margaret M. Coad, Allison M. Okamura, C. Karen Liu
Soft robot serial chain manipulators with the capability for growth, stiffness control, and discrete joints have the potential to approach the dexterity of traditional robot arms, while improving safety, lowering cost, and providing an increased workspace, with potential application in home environments.
Robotics
no code implementations • 4 Nov 2020 • Zonghe Chua, Anthony M. Jarc, Allison M. Okamura
The network with both state and vision inputs outperformed a physics-based baseline model in accuracy.
no code implementations • 28 Sep 2019 • Negin Heravi, Wenzhen Yuan, Allison M. Okamura, Jeannette Bohg
Therefore, it is challenging to model the mapping from material and user interactions to haptic feedback in a way that generalizes over many variations of the user's input.