Selective Visual and Tactile Sensing for Autonomous Systems Perception and Robotic Applications

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The development of autonomous robotic systems represents a strategic undertaking for developed countries around the world, including in Canada, to protect populations, ensure proper health care and personal services, provide competitive advantage to the manufacturing industry, and sustain economic prosperity. However, the most advanced technologies still face limitations in their sensing and perception capability. Among the challenges encountered, the acquisition of large amounts of data quickly leads to saturated processing capabilities that preempt full usage of the information available for autonomous systems to make educated decisions. Nevertheless, a recent trend has emerged that aims at merging measurements from vision, force and tactile sensors to develop systems capable of performing dexterous manipulation, in an attempt to get closer to human capabilities.