arxivcs.ROeess.SP2026-07-02
Metallic Ultrasound Waveguides as a Distributed Tactile Sensing Platform for Contact Localization, Force Estimation, and Material Class Discrimination
Alexandros Rosakis, Alessio Tamborini, Basile Fakhoury, Cole Bailey, Morteza Gharib
Tactile sensing is central to how robotic systems interact with the real world, yet current solutions face a tradeoff between sensing area and system complexity. This work investigates metallic ultrasound waveguides as distributed tactile sensors fully interrogated from a single…