Paper
TacLoc: Global Tactile Localization on Objects from a Registration Perspective
Authors
Zirui Zhang, Boyang Zhang, Fumin Zhang, Huan Yin
Abstract
Pose estimation is essential for robotic manipulation, particularly when visual perception is occluded during gripper-object interactions. Existing tactile-based methods generally rely on tactile simulation or pre-trained models, which limits their generalizability and efficiency. In this study, we propose TacLoc, a novel tactile localization framework that formulates the problem as a one-shot point cloud registration task. TacLoc introduces a graph-theoretic partial-to-full registration method, leveraging dense point clouds and surface normals from tactile sensing for efficient and accurate pose estimation. Without requiring rendered data or pre-trained models, TacLoc achieves improved performance through normal-guided graph pruning and a hypothesis-and-verification pipeline. TacLoc is evaluated extensively on the YCB dataset. We further demonstrate TacLoc on real-world objects across two different visual-tactile sensors.
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