VTAP Gripper: Synergizing Fingertip Sensing and a Visuo-Tactile Active Palm for Dexterous In-Hand Manipulation
This paper presents a tactile-reactive gripper that integrates a Visuo-Tactile Active Palm (VTAP) and compliant, reconfigurable fingers equipped with tactile array sensors. The design exploits structured finger-palm synergy and multi-modal perception to achieve both robust grasping and fine manipulation. The actuated bi-modal palm seamlessly combines long-range visual localization with contact-rich tactile feedback, substantially extending the system's manipulation capability. To bridge the embodiment gap between human hand motion and the heterogeneous three-finger structure, we further propose a staged, gesture-conditioned retargeting framework for dexterous teleoperation. Extensive experiments validate the system across a range of challenging tasks: reactive grasping of YCB and fragile objects, in-hand syringe reorientation and plunger actuation, singulation of clustered objects down to 3 mm in diameter, and vision-tactile peg-in-hole insertion. Results demonstrate that high manipulation performance can be achieved through coordinated finger-palm interaction and multi-modal sensing, without resorting to high degrees of freedom anthropomorphic designs. The VTAP gripper and its retargeting framework offer a practical reference architecture for dexterous gripper design, manipulation, and contact-rich data collection in support of learning-based approaches. Project webpage: https://yuhochau.github.io/vtap/.
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