Dr Nathan Lepora

Latest publications

• Pestell, N, Cramphorn, L & Lepora, N, 2019, ‘A sense of touch for the shadow modular grasper’. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters.
• Lepora, N, Church, A, De Kerckhove, C, Hadsell, R & Lloyd, J, 2019, ‘From pixels to percepts: Highly robust edge perception and contour following using deep learning and an optical biomimetic tactile sensor’. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters.
• Chen, W, Khamisz, H, Birznieks, I, Lepora, N & Redmond, SJ, 2018, ‘Tactile Sensors for Friction Estimation and Incipient Slip Detection - Toward Dexterous Robotic Manipulation: A Review’. IEEE Sensors Journal, vol 18., pp. 9049-9064
• Ward-Cherrier, B, Pestell, N, Cramphorn, L, Winstone, B, Giannaccini, ME, Rossiter, J & Lepora, NF, 2018, ‘The TacTip Family: Soft Optical Tactile Sensors with 3D-Printed Biomimetic Morphologies’. Soft Robotics, vol 5., pp. 216-227
• Cramphorn, L, Lloyd, J & Lepora, N, 2018, ‘Voronoi Features for Tactile Sensing: Direct Inference of Pressure, Shear, and Contact Locations’. in: Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2018 IEEE International Conference on.
• Lepora, N, Pearson, M & Cramphorn, L, 2018, ‘Active Touch with a Biomimetic 3D-printed Whiskered Robot’. in: Conference on Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems: Living Machines 2018: Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems. Springer Verlag, pp. 263-275
• Pestell, N, Lloyd, J, Rossiter, J & Lepora, N, 2018, ‘Dual-Modal Tactile Perception and Exploration’. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol 3., pp. 1033-1040
• James, J, Pestell, N & Lepora, N, 2018, ‘Slip Detection with a Biomimetic Tactile Sensor’. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol 3., pp. 3340 - 3346
• Soter, G, Conn, A, Hauser, H, Lepora, NF & Rossiter, J, 2018, ‘MultiTip: A multimodal mechano-thermal soft fingertip’. in: 2018 IEEE International Conference on Soft Robotics (RoboSoft 2018): Proceedings of a meeting held 24-28 April 2018, Livorno, Italy. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), pp. 239-244
• Aquilina, K, Barton, D & Lepora, N, 2018, ‘Principal Components of Touch’. in: Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2018 IEEE International Conference on.