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Surface Textures Classification with Fractal Detrended Fluctuation Analysis
Abstract
Tactile perception provides robots and prosthetics with capabilities such as object recognition, precise manipulation, and natural interaction. Tactile feedback plays an important role by continuously providing individuals with vital information about their external environment through physical contact. Therefore, rapid developments in human-friendly biomimetic electronics and flexible devices enable robots to distinguish material properties such as local geometry and texture, especially for materials such as textiles. In this paper, a new method for surface texture classification based on tactile signals is proposed. In the proposed method, firstly, 3-axis accelerometer (X, Y, Z) tactile signals and microphone signals are subjected to data augmentation with a non-overlapping sliding window approach. Feature extraction is performed with Fractal Detrended Fluctuation Analysis (FDFA), which is an effective method for investigating long-term correlations of power law of non-stationary time series. In the last stage, the textures were classified by using the Support Vector Machine (SVM), a widely preferred machine learning algorithm, using features obtained from accelerometer and microphone signals separately and combined. Experimental results show that when the window length is selected as 1 second, 82.91% classification accuracy is achieved for accelerometer data, 98.33% for microphone data, and 99.16% for the combined use of data from both sensors. Compared to studies in literature, 12.08% higher classification performance is achieved for microphone data and 0.56% higher classification performance is achieved when accelerometer-microphone data are combined.
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Primary Language
English
Subjects
Intelligent Robotics, Modelling and Simulation
Journal Section
Research Article
Publication Date
December 1, 2025
Submission Date
January 31, 2025
Acceptance Date
August 22, 2025
Published in Issue
Year 2025 Volume: 10 Number: 2
APA
Kılıç, C., Alçin, Ö. F., & Aslan, M. (2025). Surface Textures Classification with Fractal Detrended Fluctuation Analysis. Computer Science, 10(2), 134-143. https://doi.org/10.53070/bbd.1630805
AMA
1.Kılıç C, Alçin ÖF, Aslan M. Surface Textures Classification with Fractal Detrended Fluctuation Analysis. JCS. 2025;10(2):134-143. doi:10.53070/bbd.1630805
Chicago
Kılıç, Cemil, Ömer Faruk Alçin, and Muzaffer Aslan. 2025. “Surface Textures Classification With Fractal Detrended Fluctuation Analysis”. Computer Science 10 (2): 134-43. https://doi.org/10.53070/bbd.1630805.
EndNote
Kılıç C, Alçin ÖF, Aslan M (December 1, 2025) Surface Textures Classification with Fractal Detrended Fluctuation Analysis. Computer Science 10 2 134–143.
IEEE
[1]C. Kılıç, Ö. F. Alçin, and M. Aslan, “Surface Textures Classification with Fractal Detrended Fluctuation Analysis”, JCS, vol. 10, no. 2, pp. 134–143, Dec. 2025, doi: 10.53070/bbd.1630805.
ISNAD
Kılıç, Cemil - Alçin, Ömer Faruk - Aslan, Muzaffer. “Surface Textures Classification With Fractal Detrended Fluctuation Analysis”. Computer Science 10/2 (December 1, 2025): 134-143. https://doi.org/10.53070/bbd.1630805.
JAMA
1.Kılıç C, Alçin ÖF, Aslan M. Surface Textures Classification with Fractal Detrended Fluctuation Analysis. JCS. 2025;10:134–143.
MLA
Kılıç, Cemil, et al. “Surface Textures Classification With Fractal Detrended Fluctuation Analysis”. Computer Science, vol. 10, no. 2, Dec. 2025, pp. 134-43, doi:10.53070/bbd.1630805.
Vancouver
1.Cemil Kılıç, Ömer Faruk Alçin, Muzaffer Aslan. Surface Textures Classification with Fractal Detrended Fluctuation Analysis. JCS. 2025 Dec. 1;10(2):134-43. doi:10.53070/bbd.1630805
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