Tactile Sensors and Fiber Optic Sensors

This review provides an in-depth analysis of the principles, classifications, fabrication techniques, and data processing methodologies associated with fiber optic tactile sensors. Materials science &...

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Jan 18, 2026

Advancements in fiber optic tactile sensors: A comprehensive review

The field of tactile sensation, which involves the perception of mechanical stimuli through pressure on the skin, has advanced notably with the integration of fiber optic tactile sensors. These sensors

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Mar 14, 2026

A low-cost, human-like, high-resolution, tactile sensor

This article proposes a novel and patented optic-based tactile sensor design, in which fiber optic cables are used to increase the number of sensory

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Jul 14, 2026

Polymer-Based Self-Calibrated Optical Fiber Tactile Sensor

In this paper, we have demonstrated a novel polymer-based optical fiber tactile sensor that can measure the contact object size and the decouple normal and shear forces calibrated by the object size, with

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May 08, 2026

Recent progress of optical tactile sensors: A review

In this section, we discussed the recent progress in hydrogel fiber-based tactile sensors and the application of autonomous self-healing optical fibers. For hydrogel fiber-based tactile

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Jul 30, 2025

Fibertouch: A novel fiber-optic tactile sensor with deep learning

Although various tactile sensing systems have been proposed for robotic applications, existing solutions of electromagnetic-based, vision-based, and traditional fiber Bragg gratings (FBG)

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Jan 02, 2026

Theoretical Research of Tactile Shape Sensor for Complex Surfaces

Tactile shape sensor is a crucial research focus in the field of soft robotics, and many researchers have developed intelligent tactile shape sensors. However, current research on tactile shape sensors

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Jun 26, 2026

Advancements in fiber optic tactile sensors: A

The fabrication of optical fiber-based tactile sensors often involves embedding the fiber in a flexible material. This process requires careful selection of the flexible material, considering factors

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Nov 26, 2025

Development of Hetero-Core Fiber Optic Tip Tactile Sensors for an

This report describes a compact tactile sensor based on hetero-core fiber optics for imparting tactile perception to an artificial fingertip. The proposed tactile sensor is as small as an

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Dec 06, 2025

Advancements in fiber optic tactile sensors: A comprehensive review

Semantic Scholar extracted view of "Advancements in fiber optic tactile sensors: A comprehensive review on principles, fabrication, and applications" by Xiangxi Zhu et al.

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Jan 25, 2026

A tactile gripper on an optical fiber for perception and actuation

Here, the authors present a tactile gripper integrated with an optical fiber system that enables simultaneous perception and actuation.

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Dec 24, 2025

Sensing principle of the fiber-optic tactile sensor

In the literature no tactile sensor element can be found which has proven its functionality in deep-sea before. In we show that using a fiber-optic tactile

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Oct 15, 2025

Integration of Fiber-Optic Sensor Arrays into a Multi-Modal Tactile

The use of a multi-modal tactile sensory system is motivated, which combines static and dynamic force sensor arrays together with an absolute force measurement system. This publication

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Jul 26, 2026

ORBi UMONS: Advancements in fiber optic tactile sensors: A

This review provides an in-depth analysis of the principles, classifications, fabrication techniques, and data processing methodologies associated with fiber optic tactile sensors.

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Jun 26, 2026

Review Advancements in fiber optic tactile sensors: A comprehensive

Highlights • Fiber optic tactile sensors enhance mechanical stimuli perception through skin pressure. • Advantages include EMI immunity, high-temperature robustness, and compact form. •

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May 25, 2026

Fiber Optic Sensors in Tactile Sensing: A Review

Fiber optic tactile sensors are considered a possible solution to the problem. Related research has attracted increasing attention in recent years.

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Apr 15, 2026

Frontiers | Integrable elastic fiber-optic tactile sensors for

In this work, we designed an integrable elastic fiber-optic tactile (IEFT) sensor using the principle of the photoelastic effect of the polarization maintaining fiber (PMF) capable of detecting the

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Feb 20, 2026

Tactile sensors: A review

Compared to optical fiber sensors, capacitive, resistive, and piezoresistive tactile sensors are more accessible to make nowadays and are still flexible enough to accommodate large areas

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Dec 01, 2025

Flexible optical smart skin with high-density tactile sensing nodes

We introduce a novel optical smart skin that features a dense array of tactile sensing nodes (up to 100 per cm 2) using a single strand of single mode optical fiber sandwiched between a

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Dec 19, 2025

ORBi UMONS: Advancements in fiber optic tactile sensors: A

Recent technological advancements have significantly expanded their applications in areas such as robotics, medical diagnostics, and human-machine interfaces. This review provides an in-depth

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Apr 17, 2026

Review Advancements in fiber optic tactile sensors: A comprehensive

Recent advancements in fiber-optic sensing technology have significantly propelled the development of optical tactile sensors, injecting new vitality into the field of tactile sensing.

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Mar 06, 2026

Development of a tactile sensor based on optical fiber specklegram

The development of a tactile sensor based on optical fiber specklegram analysis is reported. The device is comprised of 9 microbending transducers con

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Jul 11, 2026

A Self‐Powered Optical Fiber Tactile Sensor with Crosstalk‐Free

This work presents a skin-like optical fiber tactile sensor integrating self-powered mechanoluminescent materials. It achieves crosstalk-free, high-fidelity spatial encoding via a dense

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Apr 17, 2026

Flexible optical touch sensor simultaneously pinpoints

Although other research groups have demonstrated thin, flexible tactile sensors by embedding commercial glass optical fibers into polymer

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Jun 15, 2026

Flexible Optical Fiber Sensing: Materials,

Flexible optical fiber sensors offer superior advantages over conventional flexible electronic sensors, including high sensitivity, rapid response time, high

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Jul 08, 2026

Fiber Optic Sensors in Tactile Sensing: A Review

This article reviews the progress of research on fiber optic tactile sensing technology in recent years, including those based on fiber Bragg gratings, micro-/nanofibers (MNFs), fiber specklegram patterns,

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Jan 19, 2026

Fiber Optic Sensors in Tactile Sensing: A Review

Tactile is an important source of information for people to explore the external environment. In the past few decades, researchers have paid special attention to tactile sensors and have made good

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Mar 25, 2026

Tactile recognition technology based on Multi-channel fiber optical

In order to achieve efficient and high-accuracy tactile sensing recognition of objects in complex industrial environments, this paper builds a multi-channel fiber optic tactile sensing system

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