arXiv Robotics research summaries for May 05, 2024.

Today's Research Themes (AI-Generated):

• Satellite onboard computing holds potential for real-time road flooding detection to improve navigation during natural disasters.

• The DexiTac soft gripper exemplifies a reconfigurable approach to robot manipulation combining soft dexterity with tactile sensing.

• A simulation framework for optical tactile sensors enhances robotic perception of complex manipulations like slip and rotation.

• FreeAlign enables robust collaborative perception for multiple agents without reliance on external localization and clock devices.

• CoverLib introduces classifiers-equipped experience libraries to optimize domain-tuned motion planning for robotics.