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NeuTouch
The NeuTouch ITN aims at improving artificial tactile systems, by training a new generation of researchers that study how human and animal’s tactile systems work, develop a new type of technology that is based on the same principles, and use this technology for building robots that can help humans in daily tasks and artificial limbs that can give the user the sensation of real touch.
In our sub-project, we aim to combine tactile and visual feedback, to make a robot learn to operate various kinds of switches, knobs, etc. This comprises i) to position the hand relative to the target object utilizing characteristic tactile features on the object and its environment, and ii) to apply a characteristic motion and force profile to operate the switch.
