Seminar Details
2023-11-21 (14h) : Experimental and modeling approaches to tap into tactile feedback during manipulation
At Euler building (room A.002)
Organized by Mathematical Engineering
Speaker :
Delhaye, Benoit
Abstract :
The sense of touch originates from the skin, where the deformations caused by our interactions with objects and surfaces are transduced into neural signals by the mechanoreceptors. Those signals then travel the nerves and reach the central nervous system where they are processed to give rise to a sensation related to the touched surface, or a specific motor response to act on the object. My research aims to better understand the sense of touch by studying three aspects involved in tactile feedback: First, the characterization of skin biomechanics, second, computational modeling of neural activity in touch neurons, and third, quantifying sensory perception and motor behavior. In this talk, I will provide an example of those three important aspects in the context of the tactile mechanisms that signal friction during manipulation. Then, I will provide an overview of the recent developments made in our group to better understand the sense of touch