Somrak Petchartee

PTT Public Company Limited (Thailand), Universität der Bundeswehr München, OTH Regensburg

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Somrak Petchartee is a researcher whose work bridges the critical gap between intuitive human-robot interaction and advanced tactile sensing. Her primary research areas include robotic manipulation, gesture-based control, and tactile sensor technology. Petchartee made a notable contribution to accessible robotics with her 2015 work on real-time Kinect-based robotic arm manipulation, which enables five-degree-of-freedom control through natural gestures using depth and skeletal data—a method that has garnered 8 citations for its practical approach to end-effector movement. In the domain of tactile sensing, she has developed methods for contact identification using tactile arrays (3 citations) and pioneered optimization of prehension force through tactile feedback (3 citations). Her work on pre-slip detection (2 citations) addresses the fundamental challenge of preventing object slippage during robotic grasping by analyzing surface deformations and controlling normal force. Petchartee’s research has direct applications in industrial automation, prosthetics, and human-robot collaboration, where safe and precise manipulation is essential. Her contributions to tactile sensing and gesture control continue to influence the development of more responsive and dexterous robotic systems.