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Understanding neural coding of touch as enabling technology for prosthetics and robotics

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Deliverables

Setup of robots for tactile-based grasping, manipulation, exploration tasks (opens in new window)

Control strategies for using knobs and switches with tactile input (ESR10); Integration of visual and tactile information to obtain accurate object model (ESR11); Integration of tactile sensors with spiking readout on manipulators (ESR12). This deliverable is used as mean of verification of milestone M6

Press releases (opens in new window)

Press releases will be updated at months M24 and M48

Specifications for the development of algorithms for improving prosthetic feedback from spiking tactile sensors (opens in new window)

Definition of stimuli and tasks to be used for characterization of tactile afferents ALL and first dataset ESR1 Tools for theoretical analysis of spike train features that determine perception and decisions ESR5 and corresponding models of spiking neural networks ESR6 First prototype of algorithms for translating spike trains from artificial sensors into stimulation patterns ESR2 Characterisation of transducers amenable to spiking readout and corresponding dataset from existing sensors ESR8 This deliverable is used as mean of verification of milestone M3

Report on recruitment (opens in new window)
PhD Calls publication (opens in new window)
Publications, list of invited talks (opens in new window)

Publications, list of invited talks will be updated at M48

Final conference report (opens in new window)
Datasets for data analysis for active exploration and manipulation (opens in new window)

It comprises a dataset of recordings from rats and humans during active exploration and behavioural selection tasks (ESR3);

Awarding Doctoral Degrees (opens in new window)

Awarding Doctoral Degrees or report on state of play

Demonstrators and Doctoral dissertations WP2 (opens in new window)

Each describing the work done towards the integrated result on the robotic platforms and the integration validation and benchmarking of the full systems in the different application scenarios ESR345101112

Demonstrators and Doctoral dissertations WP1 (opens in new window)

Each describing the work done towards the integrated result on the prosthetic device and the integration validation and benchmarking of the full system ESR12689

List of training opportunities (opens in new window)

List of training opportunities will be updated at M18 M30

Demonstrators and Doctoral dissertations WP3 (opens in new window)

Each describing the work done towards the delivery of the selfpowered tactile skin multitransduction neuromorphic skin integrated with embedded spiking neural networks for tactile preprocessing validation and benchmarking ESR7131415

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Publications

Tunneling-based CMOS Floating Gate Synapse for Low Power Spike Timing Dependent Plasticity (opens in new window)

Author(s): Michele Mastella, Fabio Toso, Giuseppe Sciortino, Enrico Prati, Giorgio Ferrari
Published in: 2020 2nd IEEE International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Circuits and Systems (AICAS), 2020, Page(s) 213-217, ISBN 978-1-7281-4922-6
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/aicas48895.2020.9073965

Guiding Representation Learning in Deep Generative Models with Policy Gradients (opens in new window)

Author(s): Luca Lach, Malte Schiling, Timo Korthals, Francesco Ferro, Helge Ritter
Published in: International Conference in Optimization and Learning (OLA2021), 2021
Publisher: Springer
DOI: 10.13140/rg.2.2.22119.78240

Synaptic Normalisation for On-Chip Learning in Analog CMOS Spiking Neural Networks (opens in new window)

Author(s): Michele Mastella; Hugh Greatorex; Madison Cotteret; Ella Janotte; Willian Soares Girão; Ole Richter; Elisabetta Chicca
Published in: Proceedings of the 2023 International Conference on Neuromorphic Systems, Issue 11, 2023
Publisher: ACM
DOI: 10.1145/3589737.3606007

Improving Manipulation Performance of Mobile Robots Using Tactile Sensors (opens in new window)

Author(s): Luca Lach, Robert Haschke, Francesco Ferro
Published in: IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2020), 2021
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.13140/rg.2.2.31111.32167

Transferring Tactile-based Continuous Force Control Policies from Simulation to Robot

Author(s): Luca Lach, Robert Haschke, Davide Tateo, Jan Peters, Helge Ritter, Júlia Borras, Carme Torras
Published in: TouchProcessing workshop @ NeurIPS, 2023
Publisher: NeurIPS

Placing by Touching: An Empirical Study on the Importance of Tactile Sensing for Precise Object Placing

Author(s): Luca Michael Lach, Niklas Wilhelm Funk, Robert Haschke, Séverin Lemaignan, Helge Ritter, Jan Peters, Georgia Chalvatzaki
Published in: International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2023
Publisher: IEEE

Neuromorphic capacitive tactile sensors inspired by slowly adaptive mechanoreceptors (opens in new window)

Author(s): Ella Janotte; Simeon Bamford; Ole Richter; Maurizio Valle; Chiara Bartolozzi
Published in: 2022 20th IEEE Interregional NEWCAS Conference (NEWCAS), 2022, ISBN 978-1-6654-0105-0
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/NEWCAS52662.2022.9841988

Robust Grasping with Mobile Robots Using Tactile Sensors (opens in new window)

Author(s): Luca Lach, Robert Haschke, Francesco Ferro
Published in: International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2021
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.13140/rg.2.2.10204.51841

Tactile Sensing for Stable Object Placing

Author(s): Luca Michael Lach, Niklas Wilhelm Funk, Robert Haschke, Helge Ritter, Jan Peters, Georgia Chalvatzaki
Published in: TouchProcessing workshop @ NeurIPS, 2023
Publisher: NeurIPS

Bio-Inspired Grasping Controller for Sensorized 2-DoF Grippers (opens in new window)

Author(s): Luca Lach, Séverin Lemaignan, Francesco Ferro, Helge Ritter, Robert Haschke
Published in: International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2022
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/iros47612.2022.9981819

Placing by Touching: An empirical study on the importance of tactile sensing for precise object placing

Author(s): Luca Michael Lach, Niklas Wilhelm Funk, Robert Haschke, Helge Ritter, Jan Peters, Georgia Chalvatzaki
Published in: RoboTac workshop @ IROS, 2023
Publisher: IEEE

Artificial Bio-inspired Tactile Receptive Fields for Edge Orientation Classification (opens in new window)

Author(s): Dabbous. A, Mastella M, Natarajan. A, Chicca E, Valle. M, Bartolozzi. C
Published in: 2021 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), 2021, Page(s) 1-5, ISBN 978-1-7281-9201-7
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/iscas51556.2021.9401749

TIAGo RL: Simulated Reinforcement Learning Environments with Tactile Data for Mobile Robots (opens in new window)

Author(s): Luca Lach, Francesco Ferro, Robert Haschke
Published in: 2021
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.13140/rg.2.2.29294.54083

Hand Temperature Is Not Consistent With Illusory Strength During the Rubber Hand Illusion (opens in new window)

Author(s): Lang, Victoria Ashley; Zbinden, Jan; Wessberg, Johan; Ortiz-Catalan, Max
Published in: 2021 43rd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine & Biology Society (EMBC), Issue 43rd Annual IEEE EMBC conference proceedings, 2021, Page(s) 1416-1418, ISSN 2694-0604
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/embc46164.2021.9630200

A Hardware-friendly Neuromorphic Spiking Neural Network for Frequency Detection and Fine Texture Decoding (opens in new window)

Author(s): Michele Mastella, Elisabetta Chicca
Published in: 2021 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), 2021, Page(s) 1-5, ISBN 978-1-7281-9201-7
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/iscas51556.2021.9401377

Leveraging Touch Sensors to Improve Mobile Manipulation (opens in new window)

Author(s): Luca Lach, Robert Haschke, Francesco Ferro and Jordi Pagès
Published in: IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2020), 2020
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.13140/rg.2.2.29055.12967

Population coding strategies in human tactile afferents (opens in new window)

Author(s): Miguel A Casal; Stefano Panzeri; Hannes Saal; Giulia Corniani
Published in: PLOS Computational Biology, 2022, ISSN 1553-734X
Publisher: Public Library of Science
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1010763

Braille letter reading: A benchmark for spatio-temporal pattern recognition on neuromorphic hardware (opens in new window)

Author(s): Simon F. Müller-Cleve, Vittorio Fra, Lyes Khacef, Alejandro Pequeño-Zurro, Daniel Klepatsch, Evelina Forno, Diego G. Ivanovich, Shavika Rastogi, Gianvito Urgese, Friedemann Zenke and Chiara Bartolozzi
Published in: Frontiers Neuroscience - Section Neuromorphic Engineering, Issue Vol. 16, 2022, ISSN 1662-453X
Publisher: Frontiers in Neuroscience
DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2022.951164

Constraints on the design of neuromorphic circuits set by the properties of neural population codes (opens in new window)

Author(s): Stefano Panzeri5,1,2, Ella Janotte3, Alejandro Pequeño-Zurro2, Jacopo Bonato1,2,4 and Chiara Bartolozzi5,3
Published in: Neuromorphic Computing and Engineering, Issue Volume 3 - Issue 1, 2023, ISSN 2634-4386
Publisher: IOP Publishing
DOI: 10.1088/2634-4386/acaf9c

The neural resource allocation problem when enhancing human bodies with extra robotic limbs (opens in new window)

Author(s): Giulia Dominijanni, Solaiman Shokur, Gionata Salvietti, Sarah Buehler, Erica Palmerini, Simone Rossi, Frederique De Vignemont, Andrea d’Avella, Tamar R. Makin, Domenico Prattichizzo, Silvestro Micera
Published in: Nature Machine Intelligence, 2021, ISSN 2522-5839
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
DOI: 10.1038/s42256-021-00398-9

Compliant peripheral nerve interfaces (opens in new window)

Author(s): Valentina Paggi, Outman Akouissi, Silvestro Micera, Stéphanie P Lacour
Published in: Journal of Neural Engineering, 2021, ISSN 1741-2560
Publisher: Institute of Physics Publishing
DOI: 10.1088/1741-2552/abcdbe

Skin inspired flexible and stretchable electrospun carbon nanofiber sensors for neuromorphic sensing (opens in new window)

Author(s): Debarun Sengupta; Michele Mastella; Elisabetta Chicca; Ajay Giri Prakash Kottapalli
Published in: ACS Applied Electronic Materials 2022, Issue 4, 2022, Page(s) 308-315, ISSN 2637-6113
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acsaelm.1c01010

Tactile innervation densities across the whole body (opens in new window)

Author(s): Giulia Corniani; Hannes P. Saal
Published in: Journal of Neurophysiology, 2020, ISSN 0022-3077
Publisher: American Physiological Society
DOI: 10.1101/2020.04.27.063263

Highly integrated bionic prostheses resolve the thermal asymmetry between residual amputated and contralateral limbs (opens in new window)

Author(s): Lang, Victoria Ashley; Munoz-Novoa, Maria; Ortiz-Catalan, Max
Published in: Scientific Reports, Issue 13, 6260, 2023, Page(s) 1-6, ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-33210-2

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