TACROSS: An Efficient and Low-Cost Scalable Human Touch System Across Heterogeneous Tactile Sensors for Dexterous Robot Learning
This study addresses the high cost of tactile data acquisition and the signal alignment challenges arising from structural heterogeneity between human hands and robotic sensors. To overcome these limitations, this work proposes a low-cost piezoresistive five-layer tactile glove alongside a cross-modal alignment mechanism based on contact events rather than raw sensor values. A temporal Transformer is employed to map heterogeneous signals into a shared latent space, enabling a robot-centric policy learning framework for dexterous manipulation. The proposed approach increases data collection efficiency by 3.5× while reducing hardware costs by 95.7%. Furthermore, the complete software and hardware designs, along with a 150-hour tactile dataset, are released as open source to facilitate future research in tactile sensing and robotic manipulation.