Tactile Robotics Laboratory
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John Rogers's visit to our lab
On September 21, 2024, Professor John Rogers visited our laboratory, where our students presented their work and ongoing projects.
RSS Conference in Netherlands
Our lab members Tasbolat and Danissa participated in the 20th edition of the “Robotics: Science and Systems” (RSS) conference held at the Delft University of Technology, Delft, Netherlands in July 15-19, 2024.
Tactile lab on the TV channel "EL ARNA"
Our lab showed the results of NU and Ministry of Science Kazakhstan and delivered know-how on tactile sensing to public via mass media channel "EL ARNA".
«HaptiComm»
Our lab visited robotics laboratory at SANA education center.
We are sharing our experience with local education centers.
SII24 conference
Laboratory supervisor Zhanat Kappassov and research assistant Tleukhan Mussin visited 16th IEEE/SICE International Symposium on System Integration(SII24) in Ha Long, Vietnam that took place on January 8-11, 2024.
Tleukhan presented his work – an action-driven tactile exploration system using flexible touch sensors integrated into the fingertips of a robot hand. Professor Zhanat was co-chair of haptics interface and human modeling session.
IEEE/SICE SII is the premier symposium series presenting the state of the art and future perspectives of system integration, where industrial experts, researchers, and academics share ideas and experiences surrounding frontier technologies, breakthrough and innovative solutions and applications.
Tleukhan presented his work – an action-driven tactile exploration system using flexible touch sensors integrated into the fingertips of a robot hand. Professor Zhanat was co-chair of haptics interface and human modeling session.
IEEE/SICE SII is the premier symposium series presenting the state of the art and future perspectives of system integration, where industrial experts, researchers, and academics share ideas and experiences surrounding frontier technologies, breakthrough and innovative solutions and applications.
Returned to develop science in Kazakhstan: NU scientists on their developments
Supervisor of tactile laboratory, Zhannat Kappasov, shared with Forbes magazine about the work of our laboratory and current projects. The full article in Russian can be found here.
Our work in collaboration with USA and Canada was published in Perception journal. We have designed and fabricated very tricky objects for blindfold tactile experiments.
“Humans can sense small numbers of objects in a box by touch alone.” Authors: Frissen, I., Kappassov, Z., Huang, K.-Y., & Ziat, M.
Our work in collaboration with USA and Canada was published in Perception journal. We have designed and fabricated very tricky objects for blindfold tactile experiments.
“Humans can sense small numbers of objects in a box by touch alone.” Authors: Frissen, I., Kappassov, Z., Huang, K.-Y., & Ziat, M.
ICRA 2024
Tactile Sensing-related workshop in Montreal
Nurlan and Azamat. October 2023. NU Research Week. Hapticomm was presented during a poster session.
Tactile Lab in the USA (Bentley University, Hapticomm project, October 2022).
Sometimes we pretend to be working (any time)
“NU works because we DO” at NU Open Day (Nov, 2022)
One more paper on Human – Robot Handover is accepted (free access). https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0921889022002007
Zhanat became a Senior Member in IEEE
NU Day 2024
Tactile Robotics Lab presented the laboratory on behalf of the Robotics Department of Nazarbayev University on NU Open House Day held on September 14th. Our members presented and explained their projects to interested visitors.
Tactile Robotics Lab presented the laboratory on behalf of the Robotics Department of Nazarbayev University on NU Open House Day held on September 14th. Our members presented and explained their projects to interested visitors.
NU Day 2024
3rd Robotics Workshop 2022 took place in Burabay, North Kazakhstan. “Patagonia” t-shirt was captured. Five external reviewers (Vladimir, Dmitrii, Nurlan, Aigerim, Sergei) gave awards to presenters. Saltanat, Azamat, Valeriya, Madina, Soibkhon won the awards for their presentations. The official part of the workshop followed by fire, music, songs, real-time blues improvisation. Rock climbing became defacto of the workshop.
PhotoElasticFinger: Robot Tactile Fingertip Based on Photoelastic Effect by Dinmukhammed Mukashev, Nurdaulet Zhuzbay, Ainur Koshkinbayeva, Bakhtiyar Orazbayev , Zhanat Kappassov was published in MDPI Sensors as part of the Special Issue Advances in Bio-Inspired Skin-Like Sensor Technologies, 2022.
Haptic Devices: Wearability-Based Taxonomy and Literature Review was published in IEEE Access
VibroTouch: Active Tactile Sensor for Contact Detection and Force Sensing via Vibrations by Danissa Sandykbayeva, Zhanat Kappassov, and Bakhtiyar Orazbayev was published in MDPI Sensors as part of the Special Issue Advances in Bio-Inspired Skin-Like Sensor Technologies, 2022.
Haptic Devices: Wearability-Based Taxonomy and Literature Review was published in IEEE Access
VibroTouch: Active Tactile Sensor for Contact Detection and Force Sensing via Vibrations by Danissa Sandykbayeva, Zhanat Kappassov, and Bakhtiyar Orazbayev was published in MDPI Sensors as part of the Special Issue Advances in Bio-Inspired Skin-Like Sensor Technologies, 2022.
Tactile Robotics Team presented the work progress to the President of Kazakhstan.
Robust Detection of Absence of Slip in Robot Hands and Feet together with Vincent Hayward (wikipedia) was accepted to IEEE Sensors, 2021.
Students with ROS skills are welcome for PhD studies at Robotics Dept (contact our team if you are interested).
The Undergraduate students, Nurdaulet Zhuzbay, Karina Burunchina, Danissa Sandykbayeva, Saltanat Seitzhan, and Nurlan Kabdyshev, as well as Master students Togzhan Syrymova, Ayan Mazhitov, and Adilzhan Adilkhanov, successfully defended their respective degrees in May 2022 and August 2022.
Zhanat Kappassov will present a haptic device assembled in Tactile Lab to Google Outreach Research Team, USA, and will give a talk for the Sberbank AI team, Russia.
Research Grant Proposal was submitted to Chevron/NU grant call.
Nurlan Kabdyshev told about his journey in the Robotics field on the EL ARNA YouTube channel.
Students with ROS skills are welcome for PhD studies at Robotics Dept (contact our team if you are interested).
The Undergraduate students, Nurdaulet Zhuzbay, Karina Burunchina, Danissa Sandykbayeva, Saltanat Seitzhan, and Nurlan Kabdyshev, as well as Master students Togzhan Syrymova, Ayan Mazhitov, and Adilzhan Adilkhanov, successfully defended their respective degrees in May 2022 and August 2022.
Zhanat Kappassov will present a haptic device assembled in Tactile Lab to Google Outreach Research Team, USA, and will give a talk for the Sberbank AI team, Russia.
Research Grant Proposal was submitted to Chevron/NU grant call.
Nurlan Kabdyshev told about his journey in the Robotics field on the EL ARNA YouTube channel.
Togzhan Syrymova will show the tactile glove to the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev.
Second Year Master's students, Togzhan Syrymova, Adilzhan Adilkhanov, and Ayan Mazhitov, have successfully presented their MS thesis.
Ayan Mazhitov and Jabrail Chumakov will do research with another specialist in tactile robotics, Lorenzo in IIT, Italy
Second Year Master's students, Togzhan Syrymova, Adilzhan Adilkhanov, and Ayan Mazhitov, have successfully presented their MS thesis.
Ayan Mazhitov and Jabrail Chumakov will do research with another specialist in tactile robotics, Lorenzo in IIT, Italy
2021 year
We got 150k USD grant for 3 years.
In 2021, our team attracted the attention of the mass media. We were 2 times on the "24 Khabar" news channel and participated in Open Talk on Instagram.
We got 150k USD grant for 3 years.
In 2021, our team attracted the attention of the mass media. We were 2 times on the "24 Khabar" news channel and participated in Open Talk on Instagram.
Interview with Temirlan Galymzhanov
Interview with Ayan Mazhitov
Interview with Togzhan Syrymova
Also, Karina Burunchina was invited to the Open Talk on SEDS NU Robotics live on Instagram
"Augmented Reality and Haptic Teleoperation" by Dinmukhammed Mukashev, Nurlan Zhaniyar, Jabrail Chumakov, and Zhanat Kappassov was submitted to RA-L, 2021
The paper “Can A Vibrotactile Stimulation On Fingertips Make An Illusion Of Elbow Joint Movement?” by Dinmukhammed Mukashev, Adilzhan Adilkhanov, and Zhanat Kappassov was accepted to IROS2021
The paper "Human-Robot Handover with Prior-to-Pass Soft/Rigid Object Classification via Tactile Glove" by Ayan Mazhitov, Togzhan Syrymova, Zhanat Kappassov and Matteo Rubagotti was submitted to ICRA RA-L
2nd Robotics workshop in Kazakhstan: around 10 presentations evaluated by 3 external reviewers who prepared 3 awards (Woman in Tech, Best Technical Presentation, Best Scientific Presentation). Deep water solo rock climbing, one night in tents, wild-wild north kazakh steppes.
The paper “Can A Vibrotactile Stimulation On Fingertips Make An Illusion Of Elbow Joint Movement?” by Dinmukhammed Mukashev, Adilzhan Adilkhanov, and Zhanat Kappassov was accepted to IROS2021
The paper "Human-Robot Handover with Prior-to-Pass Soft/Rigid Object Classification via Tactile Glove" by Ayan Mazhitov, Togzhan Syrymova, Zhanat Kappassov and Matteo Rubagotti was submitted to ICRA RA-L
2nd Robotics workshop in Kazakhstan: around 10 presentations evaluated by 3 external reviewers who prepared 3 awards (Woman in Tech, Best Technical Presentation, Best Scientific Presentation). Deep water solo rock climbing, one night in tents, wild-wild north kazakh steppes.
The paper “Can A Vibrotactile Stimulation On Fingertips Make An Illusion Of Elbow Joint Movement?” by Dinmukhammed Mukashev, Adilzhan Adilkhanov, and Zhanat Kappassov was accepted to IROS2021
We got 18 mln KZT per year grant from a Ministry in Kazakhstan for developing an event-based tactile sensor
The paper "Human-Robot Handover with Prior-to-Pass Soft/Rigid Object Classification via Tactile Glove" by Ayan Mazhitov, Togzhan Syrymova, Zhanat Kappassov and Matteo Rubagotti was submitted to ICRA RA-L
Zhanat Kappassov had written an article about Active Manipulation for "Encyclopedia Robotics".
IROS2021 conference paper was submitted
Tactile lab is looking for a PhD student candidate with skills in ROS.
Tactile lab got a 18 mln kzt per year grant from Ministry of Education and Studies in Kazakhstan ( 3 years).
Temirlan Galimzhanov, Ayan Mazhitov, and Togzhan Syrymova talked about their projects and thoughts about Robotics in Kazakhstan in the new News video of the Rubric 'Science' called 'The development of robotics in Kazakhstan' (in Russian).
We got 18 mln KZT per year grant from a Ministry in Kazakhstan for developing an event-based tactile sensor
The paper "Human-Robot Handover with Prior-to-Pass Soft/Rigid Object Classification via Tactile Glove" by Ayan Mazhitov, Togzhan Syrymova, Zhanat Kappassov and Matteo Rubagotti was submitted to ICRA RA-L
Zhanat Kappassov had written an article about Active Manipulation for "Encyclopedia Robotics".
IROS2021 conference paper was submitted
Tactile lab is looking for a PhD student candidate with skills in ROS.
Tactile lab got a 18 mln kzt per year grant from Ministry of Education and Studies in Kazakhstan ( 3 years).
Temirlan Galimzhanov, Ayan Mazhitov, and Togzhan Syrymova talked about their projects and thoughts about Robotics in Kazakhstan in the new News video of the Rubric 'Science' called 'The development of robotics in Kazakhstan' (in Russian).
One of our members, Ayan Mazhitov, appeared in News in the Rubric ‘Sciene’.
The video from the News called ‘Neural Networks’ is available in Russian by the following link.
Also he has appeared in the video about ‘Smartphones’ and ‘Face ID‘ (both in Russian).
The video from the News called ‘Neural Networks’ is available in Russian by the following link.
Also he has appeared in the video about ‘Smartphones’ and ‘Face ID‘ (both in Russian).
Our hoodies with Tactile Robotics logo are ready:
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- The 1st Camping Robotics Workshop near Temirtau city, Kazakhstan -- a new format of discussing and wide-spreading the knowledge on robotics.
- One more journal paper, on which we have been working for two years, was finally published in MDPI Sensors Journal: "Deep Vibro-Tactile Perception for Simultaneous Texture Identification, Slip Detection, and Speed Estimation, Massalim et al, 2020". Feel free to read it as we paid 2k USD for the open access option.
- Three papers and one student competition proposal are accepted to IEEE/ASME AIM 2020, Boston, USA 1. Togzhan Syrymova*, Karina Burunchina, Valeriy Novossyolov, Saltanat Seitzhan, Zhanat Kappassov AIM2020 Student Design Competition Proposal Multimodal Tactile Sensing Glove Conference: 2020 IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics (AIM). 2. Zhanat Kappassov*, Juan-Antonio CORRALES-RAMON, Véronique Perdereau Simulation of Tactile Sensing Arrays for Physical Interaction Tasks Conference: 2020 IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics (AIM). 3 Togzhan Syrymova*, Yerkebulan Massalim, Yerbolat khassanov, Zhanat Kappassov Vibro-Tactile Foreign Body Detection in Granular Objects based on Squeeze-Induced Mechanical Vibrations 2020 IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics (AIM). 4. Temirlan Galimzhanov, Altay Zhakatayev, Ramil Kashapov, Zhanat Kappassov, Huseyin Atakan Varol* Linear Negative Stiffness Honeycomb Actuator with Integrated Force Sensing
Conference: 2020 IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics (AIM).
- "Shear, Torsion and Pressure Tactile Sensor via Plastic Optofiber Guided Imaging" paper is accepted for publication in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters journal, and for presentation at 2020 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2020, Paris). The paper presents a new approach for sensing normal, shear, and torsional loads with an optical fiber-based tactile sensor which detects the displacements of a colored pattern.
D. Baimukashev, Z. Kappassov and H. A. Varol, "Shear, Torsion and Pressure Tactile Sensor via Plastic Optofiber Guided Imaging," in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 5, no. 2, pp. 2618-2625, April 2020.
doi: 10.1109/LRA.2020.2972876
URL: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=8990014&isnumber=8932682
- "VibeRo: Vibrotactile Stiffness Perception Interface for Virtual Reality" paper is accepted for publication in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters journal, and for presentation at 2020 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2020)
2019 year
- Tactile Robotics Lab presented its work to public during Nazarbayev Univ. Open Day in the cultural capital of Kazakhstan -- Almaty. During 3 days prospective students could get in touch with the projects of the lab. PI of the lab delivered 3 talks. Around 60 prospective students attended the talks.
Prospective students were interested in Robotics and AI ...
- Three papers and one student competition proposal are accepted to IEEE/ASME AIM 2020, Boston, USA 1. Togzhan Syrymova*, Karina Burunchina, Valeriy Novossyolov, Saltanat Seitzhan, Zhanat Kappassov AIM2020 Student Design Competition Proposal Multimodal Tactile Sensing Glove Conference: 2020 IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics (AIM). 2. Zhanat Kappassov*, Juan-Antonio CORRALES-RAMON, Véronique Perdereau Simulation of Tactile Sensing Arrays for Physical Interaction Tasks Conference: 2020 IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics (AIM). 3 Togzhan Syrymova*, Yerkebulan Massalim, Yerbolat khassanov, Zhanat Kappassov Vibro-Tactile Foreign Body Detection in Granular Objects based on Squeeze-Induced Mechanical Vibrations 2020 IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics (AIM). 4. Temirlan Galimzhanov, Altay Zhakatayev, Ramil Kashapov, Zhanat Kappassov, Huseyin Atakan Varol* Linear Negative Stiffness Honeycomb Actuator with Integrated Force Sensing
Conference: 2020 IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics (AIM).
- "Shear, Torsion and Pressure Tactile Sensor via Plastic Optofiber Guided Imaging" paper is accepted for publication in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters journal, and for presentation at 2020 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2020, Paris). The paper presents a new approach for sensing normal, shear, and torsional loads with an optical fiber-based tactile sensor which detects the displacements of a colored pattern.
D. Baimukashev, Z. Kappassov and H. A. Varol, "Shear, Torsion and Pressure Tactile Sensor via Plastic Optofiber Guided Imaging," in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 5, no. 2, pp. 2618-2625, April 2020.
doi: 10.1109/LRA.2020.2972876
URL: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=8990014&isnumber=8932682
- "VibeRo: Vibrotactile Stiffness Perception Interface for Virtual Reality" paper is accepted for publication in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters journal, and for presentation at 2020 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2020)
2019 year
- Tactile Robotics Lab presented its work to public during Nazarbayev Univ. Open Day in the cultural capital of Kazakhstan -- Almaty. During 3 days prospective students could get in touch with the projects of the lab. PI of the lab delivered 3 talks. Around 60 prospective students attended the talks.
Prospective students were interested in Robotics and AI ...
The evening of the second day was almost empty. There were around only 5 prospective students during vice-provost's talk.
There were kids interested in undergraduate programs.
There were graduated students interested in PhD programs.
- Tactile servoing paper is now available online https://doi.org/10.1016/j.robot.2019.103332
- Journal Paper accepted to Robotics and Autonomous Systems journal
- https://authors.elsevier.com/tracking/article/details.do?aid=103332&jid=ROBOT&surname=Kappassov
Tactile Robotics Lab presented its work to public during Nazarbayev Univ
Open Day
Graduation Project at Tactile Robotics Lab
Karim Massimov, Head of National Security (KNB), has tested and put on our tactile research prototypes. Tactile Robotics Lab has presented the work at the opening ceremony of Institute of Smart Systems and Artificial Intelligence (ISSAI). The event was dedicated for appearance of the Massimov's book about AI.
Submitted RA-L icra 2020 papers
2018 year:
- Best Thesis award
- Nursutlan Nazarbayev visited NU Research Building
- Best Thesis award
- Nursutlan Nazarbayev visited NU Research Building
IROS2018 in Madrid
- Invited guest lecture by a Vice-President of Sorbonne Univ.
- Invited guest lecture by a Professor in haptics
- Our paper is appeared as one of the most cited papers in a peer-reviewed Journal
