arxivcs.RO2026-06-29
TacEvo: Self-Evolving Architecture Discovery for Robotic Tactile Perception via LLM-Driven Quality-Diversity Search
Mohammed AbuSadeh, Lan Wei, Dandan Zhang
Vision-based tactile sensing converts contact-induced surface deformation into images, enabling robots to infer contact forces and fine surface textures that are not accessible through conventional vision alone. However, tactile images are sensor- and physics-specific, so effecti…