Identifying Relevant Tactile Features for Object Identification

Tactile sensing arrays for robotic applications become more and more popular these days. This allows us to equip robots with sensing abilities similar to those of our human skin. This article presents an approach to tactile-based recognition of objects and evaluates the utility of various feature extractors for tactile processing.

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