Mr Joe Louca
BSc, MSc, PhD
Current positions
- Senior Research AssociateSchool of Engineering Mathematics and Technology
Contact
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Projects and supervisions
Research projects
- Haptic Teleoperation for Space applications- Principal Investigator- Role- Student - DescriptionInvestigation of effects and mitigation of teleoperation delays using haptic interfaces- Managing organisational unit- Dates- 01/10/2020 to 01/10/2024 
Publications
Recent publications
01/08/2025Trustworthy Delayed Teleoperation via an Imperfect Regolith Model
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters
Demonstrating Trustworthiness in Open-Loop Model Mediated Teleoperation for Collecting Lunar Regolith Simulant*
2024 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2024)
Impact of Haptic Feedback in High Latency Teleoperation for Space Applications
ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction (THRI)
Verification of a Virtual Lunar Regolith Simulant
Frontiers in Space Technologies
Elicitation of trustworthiness requirements for highly dexterous teleoperation systems with signal latency
Frontiers in Neurorobotics
Thesis
- The Importance of Trust in Space Teleoperation- Supervisors- Award date- 17/06/2025 

