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May28
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Speaker: Yipai Du, Co-Founder and Tactile Sensing Specialist, Daimon Robotics
Title: Vision-based Tactile Sensing and Applications
Date and Time: Wednesday, May 28, 11:00 AM CT
Location: Tech, B211 and Zoom: https://tinyurl.com/CRBSeminar
Abstract: Tactile sensing capability is indispensable for animals and humans to interact with the physical world with flexibility and agility. Vision-based tactile sensing have shown great potential to obtain rich information during dexterous manipulation. We focus on reducing the design complexity and increasing the scalability of vision-based tactile sensing. The camera captures deformations of a specially designed pattern. We propose to use the Gaussian density feature to infer contact depth from this 2D deformation. We demonstrate the practical efficacy of this tactile sensing method by deploying it in different robotic actuators like robotic feet and arms. We show case properly exploiting the tactile data can reduce complexity, improve sample efficiency, and achieve robustness in a deformable cloth manipulation setting, which is prone to visual occlusion and observability issues.
Bio: Dr. Yipai Du obtained PhD from the Robotics Institute of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, under the supervision of Prof. Michael Yu Wang. During his PhD, he studied vision-based sensor design, robotic tactile perception and its applications in manipulation. He also used to work at ETH Zurich and Purdue University on vision-based tactile sensing. He is now one of the co-founders of Daimon Robotics and leads the tactile sensing team there.
TIME Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
LOCATION B211, Technological Institute map it
CONTACT Amy Nedoss amy.nedoss@northwestern.edu EMAIL
CALENDAR Center for Robotics and Biosystems (CRB)
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Sep8
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Enjoy a welcome from Dean Christopher A. Schuh and other McCormick leaders, and receive a Northwestern Engineering T-shirt. A free light breakfast on the Tech East Plaza will follow.
TIME Monday, September 8, 2025 at 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
LOCATION LR2 & Tech East Plaza, Technological Institute map it
CONTACT Andi Joppie andi.joppie@northwestern.edu EMAIL
CALENDAR McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science
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Sep12
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New Undergraduate Fall 2025 Registration
TIME Friday, September 12, 2025
CONTACT Office of the Registrar nu-registrar@northwestern.edu EMAIL
CALENDAR University Academic Calendar
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Sep15
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Enjoy a welcome from Dean Christopher A. Schuh and other McCormick leaders, and receive a Northwestern Engineering T-shirt. A free lunch on the Tech East Plaza will follow.
TIME Monday, September 15, 2025 at 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
LOCATION Ryan Auditorium & Tech East Plaza, Technological Institute map it
CONTACT Andi Joppie andi.joppie@northwestern.edu EMAIL
CALENDAR McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science
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Sep16
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Fall Classes Begin. Change of Registration (Drop/Add) Late registration for returning students begins
TIME Tuesday, September 16, 2025
CONTACT Office of the Registrar nu-registrar@northwestern.edu EMAIL
CALENDAR University Academic Calendar