This paper presents an event-based opto-tactile skin, a neuromorphic tactile sensing system that integrates dual dynamic vision sensors (DVS) with a flexible optical waveguide to enable high-speed, low-latency touch detection over large areas of soft robotic surfaces. The system leverages sparse event streams for press localization, using clustering-based triangulation to achieve accurate tactile mapping with minimal computational overhead. Experimental results demonstrate reliable contact detection and localization across a 100 cm² sensing area, highlighting its potential for real-time, energy-efficient soft robotics applications.
This paper introduces SkyShield, an event-driven framework for detecting submillimeter-scale thin obstacles—such as steel wires and kite strings—that endanger autonomous drones in complex environments. Using the high temporal resolution of event-based cameras, SkyShield leverages a lightweight U-Net and a novel Dice-Contour Regularization Loss to accurately capture thin structures in event streams. Experiment results show a mean F1 score of 0.7088 with 21.2 ms latency, making the approach well suited for real-time, edge, and mobile drone applications.
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In this paper, NeuroCamTags introduces a battery-free platform designed to detect a range of human interactions and activities in entire rooms and floors without batteries. The system comprises low-cost tags that harvest ambient light energy and utilize high-frequency LED modulation for wireless communication. Visual signals are captured by a neuromorphic camera with high temporal resolution. NeuroCamTags enables localization and identification of multiple tags, offering battery-free sensing for temperature, contact, button presses, key presses, and sound cues, with accurate detection up to 200 feet.
