Professor Nathan Lepora

Latest publications

• Lepora, NF, 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, vol 4., pp. 2101-2107
• Pestell, N, Cramphorn, L, Lepora, N & Papadopoulos, F, 2019, ‘A Sense of Touch for the Shadow Modular Grasper’. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol 4., pp. 2220-2226
• Elkington, M, Ward, C, Ward-Cherrier, B, Lepora, N, Pestell, N & Almas, E, 2019, ‘Layup end effectors with tactile sensing capabilities’. in: Suong V Hoa (eds) Proceedings of the 4th Symposium on Automated Composite Manufacturing. Concordia University Press
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• James, J & Lepora, N, 2018, ‘Slip Detection on Natural Objects with a Biomimetic Tactile Sensor’. in: Conference on Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems. Springer, pp. 232-235
• Lepora, N, 2018, ‘Touch’. in: Living machines: A handbook of research in biomimetics and biohybrid systems., pp. 153-159
• Prescott, T, Lepora, N & Verschure, PFMJ, 2018, ‘Living machines: A handbook of research in biomimetics and biohybrid systems’. Oxford University Press