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Our Tac-01 sensors are ideal for a wide range of use cases, from raw data collection to higher order tactile interpretations.
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Tac-01 Sensors
Our Tac-01 sensors are ideal for a wide range of use cases, from raw data collection to higher order tactile interpretations.
Asynchronous Coded Electronic Skin (ACES)
Asynchronous Coded Electronic Skin (ACES)
This novel sensor can detect touch more than 1,000 times faster than the human sensory nervous system and identify the shape, texture and hardness of objects 10 times faster than the blink of an eye.
Drawing inspiration from the human sensory nervous system, we have developed an advanced artificial skin known as
Asynchronous Coded Electronic Skin (ACES) - an event-based neuro-mimetic architecture that enables asynchronous transmission of tactile information.
ACES can detect touch at more than 1,000 times faster than the human sensory nervous system. For example, it is capable of differentiating physical contact between different sensors in less than 60 nanoseconds — the fastest ever achieved for an electronic skin technology — even with large numbers of sensors. ACES-enabled skin can also accurately identify the shape, texture and hardness of objects within 10 milliseconds, ten times faster than the blinking of an eye. This is enabled by the high fidelity and capture speed of the ACES system.
The ACES platform can also be designed to achieve high robustness to physical damage, an important property for electronic skins because they come into the frequent physical contact with the environment. Unlike the current system used to interconnect sensors in existing electronic skins, all the sensors in ACES can be connected to a common electrical conductor with each sensor operating independently. This allows ACES-enabled electronic skins to continue functioning as long as there is one connection between the sensor and the conductor, making them less vulnerable to damage.
Neuromorphic Technology
Event-driven visual-tactile perception system, comprising a novel biologically-inspired tactile sensor and multi-modal spike-based learning.
Intel’s Loihi chip processed the sensory data 21% faster than a top performing graphics processing unit (GPU), while using more than 45 times less power.
To break new ground in robotic perception, we are exploring neuromorphic technology – an area of computing that emulates the neural structure and operation of the human brain – to process sensory data from ACES.
We are developing sensory integrated artificial brain system that mimics biological neural networks, which can run on a power-efficient neuromorphic processor, such as Intel’s Loihi chip and Brainchip’s Akida neural processor. This novel system integrates ACES and vision sensors, equipping robots with the ability to draw accurate conclusions about the objects they are grasping based on the data captured by the sensors in real-time - while operating at a power level efficient enough to be deployed directly inside the robot.
Intelligent Sensing
Confusion Matrix on the
Texture Classification Task. Average accuracy was 94.3%±5.3%.
Confusion Matrix on the
Food Identification Task. Overall accuracy was 90%.
Most of today’s robots operate solely based on visual processing, which limits their capabilities. In order to perform more complex tasks, robots have to be equipped with an exceptional sense of touch and the ability to process sensory information quickly and intelligently.
To improve the robot’s perception capabilities, we have developed machine-learning models for tactile perception and inference. Some of these models are synergized with vision sensing to achieve better performance.
Models' capabilities:
Integrations
Our sensors include various hardware and software integrations you to easily include our tactile intelligence in your application.
Hardware
Robotic Grippers
The sensors have been designed to provide seamless integrations with commercial off-the-shelf robotic grippers. We currently support Robotiq 2F grippers with our own custom low-latency C++ drivers.
Software
C++/Python Support
We provide C++/Python APIs to interface with our sensors, robotic grippers and our tactile intelligence algorithms.
Middleware
ROS/ROS2
Support for ROS is built right into the SDK. We provide ROS nodes and RViz plugins to enable you to integrate the sensors into your robotic applications.
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