Meet SonicSense: Enabling Robot Object Perception

SonicSense is a holistic design of hardware and software to enable rich robot object perception through in-hand acoustic vibration sensing. Watch this video to learn how the framework underscores the significance of in-hand acoustic vibration sensing in advancing robot tactile perception.

“Robots today mostly rely on vision to interpret the world,” explained Jiaxun Liu , lead author of the paper and a first-year Ph.D. student in the laboratory of Boyuan Chen, professor of mechanical engineering and materials science at Duke. “We wanted to create a solution that could work with complex and diverse objects found on a daily basis, giving robots a much richer ability to ‘feel’ and understand the world.”