Ruohan Zhang

Ruohan Zhang

My research lies at the intersection of robot perception, tactile sensing, and manipulation. I design tactile sensors and study their integration into robotic end-effectors, working towards stable and generalizable manipulation.

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PneuGelSight: Soft Robotic Vision-Based Proprioception and Tactile Sensing

Published in International Journal of Robotics Research (IJRR), 2025

We introduce PneuGelSight, a pneumatic manipulator with integrated vision-based tactile sensing and proprioception. Our pipeline enables accurate optical and dynamic simulation, supporting zero-shot sim-to-real transfer for robust manipulation.

Recommended citation: Ruohan Zhang, Uksang Yoo, Yichen Li, Arpit Argawal, Wenzhen Yuan. (2025). PneuGelSight: Soft Robotic Vision-Based Proprioception and Tactile Sensing. International Journal of Robotics Research (IJRR).
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FruitTouch: A Perceptive Gripper for Gentle and Scalable Fruit Harvesting

Published in Under Review (2025), 2025

We propose FruitTouch, a compact gripper that integrates high-resolution, vision-based tactile sensing to enable gentle, scalable fruit harvesting with real-time force, slip, and softness estimation.

Recommended citation: Ruohan Zhang, Amin Mirzaee, Wenzhen Yuan. (2025). FruitTouch: A Perceptive Gripper for Gentle and Scalable Fruit Harvesting.

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