Giving robots the human sense of touch

Make robots safer, more intelligent, and more versatile in the human environment.

GTac and GTac Families 

 

 Giving robots with human sense of touch and humans-skill transfer:

Tactile Sensors

Rich feedback, integrability, and customizability

Multi-modal, modular, and skin-inspired for larger and smaller area

Robotic Integration

Corelated with tactile sensors design, hand design and robotic tasks

Robotic Tasks

Leverage large amount of tactile feedback

Imitation learning


GTac-Families

 

GTac: A Biomimetic Tactile Sensor with Skin-like Heterogeneous Force Feedback for Robots

Zeyu Lu, Xingyu Gao, and Haoyong Yu

(published in IEEE Sensors Journal) 

GTac-Hand: A Robotic Hand with Integrated Biomimetic Tactile Sensing and ECS Recognition Capabilities

Zeyu Lu and Haoyong Yu

(Published by IEEE Transactions on Mechatronics)

[Website] [Code]

GTac-Gripper: A Reconfigurable Under-actuated Four-fingered Robotic Gripper with Tactile Sensing

Zeyu Lu, Haotian Guo, Wensi Zhang, and Haoyong Yu 

(Published in IEEE RA-L) 

[Paper] [Website] [Video] [Code] [IROS2022 Pre]

Interaction Control for Tool Manipulation on Deformable Objects Using Tactile Feedback

Hanwen Zhang*, Zeyu Lu*, Wenyu Liang, Haoyong Yu, Yao Mao, and Yan Wu

* indicates equal contributions

(Published in IEEE RA-L)

[Paper]

Wearable Robotics, Human Gait Analysis, and Pattern Recognition 

(Prior to my Ph.D.) 

 

Human Locomotion Recognition using IMU and Deep Learning for Exoskeleton

Zeyu Lu, Ashwin Narayan, and Haoyong Yu, “A Deep Learning Based End-to-End Locomotion Mode Detection Method for Lower Limb Wearable Robot Control,” in 2020 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Oct. 2020, pp. 4091–4097.

Suspended Backpack Design and Gait Analysis and Modeling

Y. Leng, X. Lin, Z. Lu, A. Song, Z. Yu, and C. Fu, “A model to predict ground reaction force for elastically-suspended backpacks,” Gait & Posture, vol. 82, pp. 118–125, 2020

Patent: CN210841945U

Mosquito pattern recognition and localization for automating vaccine production

Supervised by Prof. Gregory Chirikjian 

at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA

 Thanks to all the support from  my supervisor, my collaborators, and colleagues! Those works cannot be done without their incredible support!