What is it about?

This paper presents a computer vision-based method for visually detecting the contact between an end-effector and a target surface under an optical microscope during microrobotic manipulation.

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Why is it important?

Without using proximity or force/touch sensors, this method provides a submicrometer detection accuracy and possesses robustness.

Perspectives

The presented contact detection method is applicable to many microrobotic and nanorobotic manipulation scenarios, in which flexible or stiff end-effectors are operated under an optical or electron microscope.

Professor Wenhui Wang
Tsinghua University

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This page is a summary of: Contact Detection in Microrobotic Manipulation, The International Journal of Robotics Research, August 2007, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/0278364907080254.
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