David Brenken

PhD - McGill University

Supervisor

Audrey Sedal

Research Topics

Deep Learning

Deep Neural Networks

Molecular Modeling

Reinforcement Learning

Publications

They Hear Me Rolling: Design and Characterization of a Distributed, Rolling Acoustic-Tactile Sensor

Wilfred Mason

David Brenken

Olivier St-Martin Cormier

Audrey Sedal

Tactile sensor design has been widely explored at the centimeter-scale; fewer explorations exist in larger scale systems with varied geometr… (see more)ies. We present a meter-scale tactile sensor for wheeled robotic platforms based on a flexible acoustic waveguide. This sensor architecture performs contact sensing over the surface of a rotating wheel with a single transducer that is separated from the sensing surface. The design and characterization of the sensor are presented, along with a demonstration of a state-estimation framework using tactile sensor feedback to measure surface features.

2025-09-30

IEEE Sensors Letters (published)

doi.org

Acoustic tactile sensing for mobile robot wheels

Wilfred Mason

David Brenken

Falcon Z. Dai

Ricardo Gonzalo Cruz Castillo

Olivier St-Martin Cormier

Audrey Sedal

2024-02-27

ArXiv (preprint)