Reading List for Tactile Perception

Sensors and robot perception interface

• Robots learn to identify objects by feeling
• Skin-inspired quadruple tactile sensors integrated on a robot hand enable object recognition
• Soft robot perception using embedded soft sensors and recurrent neural networks
• Prosthesis with neuromorphic multilayered e-dermis
• Learning the signatures of the human grasp using a scalable tactile glove
• Encoding_decoding of first and second order tactile afferents in a neurorobotic application
• The Role of Fingerprints in the Coding of Tactile Information Probed with a Biomimetic Sensor

Introduction to Spiking Neural Network

• The Neural Basis of Tactile Texture Perception
• Simple Model of Spiking Neurons
• Surrogate Gradient Learning in Spiking

Mechanoreceptor Encoding

• A functional spiking neuronal network for tactile sensing pathway to process edge orientation
• Cuneate spiking neural network learning to classify naturalistic texture stimuli under varying sensing conditions
• Spatial and temporal codes mediate the tactile perception of natural textures

Somatosensory system

• Neural Basis of Touch and Proprioception in Primate Cortex
• Membrane potential correlates of sensory perception in mouse barrel cortex
• Sensory and decision-related activity propagate in a cortical feedback loop during touch perception
• Rich spatio-temporal stimulus dynamics unveil sensory specialization in cortical area S2

Our previous work

• Towards Effective Tactile Identification of Textures using a Hybrid Touch Approach
• Supervised Autoencoder Joint Learning on Heterogeneous Tactile Sensory Data: Improving Material Classification Performance
• Fast Texture Classification Using Tactile Neural Coding and Spiking Neural Network