Publications

Journal articles
  1. span styple="color: #000000;">D.F. Gomes, P. Paoletti and S. Luo, ``Generation of GelSight Tactile Images for Sim2RealLearning”, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2021
  2. Y. Song, R. Koeck, S. Luo, “Review and Analysis of Augmented Reality for DigitalFabrication in Architecture”, Automation in Construction, 2021. (Impact Factor: 5.669)
  3. S. Luo, N. F. Lepora, U. Martinez-Hernandez, J. Bimbo and H. Liu, “Editorial: “ViTac:Integrating Vision and Touch for Multimodal and Cross-Modal Perception”, Frontiers inRobotics and AI, 2021.
  4. M. Fisher, R. C. Cardoso, E. C. Collins, C. Dadswell, L. A. Dennis, C. Dixon, M. Farrell,A. Ferrando, X. Huang, M. Jump, G. Kourtis, A. Lisitsa, M. Luckcuck, S. Luo, V. Page, F. Papacchini, M. Webster, “An Overview of Verification and Validation Challenges for Inspection Robots”, Robotics, 2021.
  5. D.F. Gomes, Z. Lin and S. Luo, ``Blocks World of Touch: Exploiting the advantages of all-around finger sensing in robot grasping'', Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 2020 (accepted).
  6. S. Luo, W. Mou, K. Althoefer, H. Liu, ``iCLAP: Shape Recognition by Combining Proprioception and Touch Sensing'', Autonomous Robots, 43(4), 993-1004, 2019. [PDF]
  7. H. Peel, S. Luo, A.G. Cohn, and R. Fuentes, ``Localisation of a mobile robot for bridge bearing inspection'', Automation in Construction, 94, 224-256, 2018. [PDF]
  8. S. Luo, J. Bimbo, R. Dahiya, H. Liu, ``Robotic Tactile Perception of Object Properties: A Review'', Mechatronics, 48, 54-67, 2017. [PDF]
  9. S. Luo, L. Zhu, K. Althoefere, H. Liu, ``Knock-Knock: Acoustic Object Recognition using Stacked Denoising Autoencoders.'' Neurocomputing, 267, 18-24, 2017. [PDF]
  10. J. Bimbo, S. Luo, K. Althoefer, H. Liu, ``In-hand object pose estimation using tactile to geometry matching.'' IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 1 (1), 570-577, 2016. [PDF]
  11. M. Li, S. Sareh, G. Xu, M.B. Ridzuan, S. Luo, J. Xie, H. Wurdemann, K. Althoefer, ``Evaluation of pseudo-haptic interactions with soft objects'', PLoS One, 11 (6), 2016. [PDF]
  12. S. Luo, W. Mou, K. Althoefer, H. Liu, ``Novel Tactile-SIFT descriptor for object shape recognition.'' IEEE Sensors Journal, 15 (9), 5001-5009, 2015. [PDF]
  13. M. Li, S. Luo, T. Nanayakkara, L.D. Seneviratne, P. Dasgupta, K. Althoefer, ``Multi-fingered haptic palpation using pneumatic actuators.'' Sensors and Actuators A: Physical, 218, 132-141, 2014. [PDF]
Conference proceedings
  1. D.F. Gomes, Z. Lin, and S. Luo, ``GelTip: A Finger-shaped Optical Tactile Sensor for Robotic Manipulation'' IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2020. [PDF] [Project website]
  2. G. Cao, Y. Zhou, D. Bollegala, and S. Luo, ``Spatio-Temporal Attention Model for Tactile Texture Recognition'' IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2020. [PDF]
  3. D.F. Gomes, S. Luo, and L.F. Teixeira, ``GarmNet: Improving Global with Local Perception for Robotic Laundry Folding'', Annual Conference Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems, 49-61, 2019. [PDF]
  4. Z. Jiang, S. Luo, ``Neural Logic Reinforcement Learning'', The 36th International Conference on Machine Learning 97, 3110-3119 (ICML), 2019. [PDF]
  5. B. Schnieders, S. Luo, G. Palmer, and K. Tuyls, ``Fully convolutional one-shot object segmentation for industrial robotics'', International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, 2019. [PDF]
  6. J.T. Lee, D. Bollegala and S. Luo, ``"Touching to See" and" Seeing to Feel": Robotic Cross-modal Sensory Data Generation for Visual-Tactile Perception'', IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2019. [PDF]
  7. C. Lu, J. Wang, S. Luo, ``Surface Following using Deep Reinforcement Learning and a GelSightTactile Sensor", 2019. [PDF]
  8. L. Parker, J. Butterworth, S. Luo, ``Fly safe: Aerial swarm robotics using force field particle swarm optimisation", 2019. [PDF]
  9. S. Luo, W. Yuan, E. Adelson, A. Cohn and R. Fuentes, ``ViTac: Feature Sharing between Vision and Tactile Sensing for Cloth Texture Recognition'', IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2018. [PDF]
  10. S. Luo, F. King and N. Hata, ``Tracker-less Tracking of Bronchoscopy from an Endoscopy Camera'', IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI), 2018.
  11. L. Pauly, S. Luo, D. Hogg, R. Fuentes and H. Peel, ``Deeper Networks for Pavement Crack Detection'', International Symposium on Automation and Robotics in Construction (ISARC), 2017. [PDF]
  12. G. Clarkson, S. Luo and R. Fuentes, ``Thermal 3D modelling'', International Symposium on Automation and Robotics in Construction (ISARC), 2017. [PDF]
  13. H. Peel, S. Luo, A. G. Cohn and Raul Fuentes, ``An improved robot for bridge inspection'', International Symposium on Automation and Robotics in Construction (ISARC), 2017. [PDF]
  14. S. Luo, W. Mou, K. Althoefer, H. Liu, ``Iterative Closest Labelled Point for Tactile Object Recognition.'' IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2016. [PDF]
  15. M. Li, S. Luo, G. Xu, ``Tactile Sensing Feedback System for Tumor Localization.'' International Conference on Ubiquitous Robots and Ambient Intelligence (URAI), 2016 (Best Poster Finalists).
  16. S. Luo, H. Liu, ``Object Contact Recognition and Localization by Employing Tactile Patterns, Kinaesthetic Cues and Visual Maps'', AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence Robotics Fellowship Talks, 2016.
  17. S. Luo, X. Liu, K. Althoefer, H. Liu, ``Tactile object recognition with semi-supervised learning.'' International Conference on Intelligent Robotics and Applications (ICIRA), 15-26, 2015. [PDF]
  18. S. Luo, W. Mou, K. Althoefer, H. Liu, ``Localizing the object contact through matching tactile features with visual map.'' IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 3903 - 3908, 2015. [PDF]
  19. S. Luo, K. Althoefer, H. Liu, ``Where am I Touching? Solved by Matching Tactile Features with Visual Object Map'', ICRA Workshop on Grasping and Manipulation, 2015.
  20. S. Luo, W. Mou, K. Althoefer, H. Liu, ``Rotation and translation invariant object recognition with a tactile sensor.'' IEEE Sensors Conference, 1030 - 1033, 2014.
  21. S. Luo, K. Althoefer, H. Liu, ``Rotation and Translation Invariant Object Recognition with Tactile Sensors While Grasping'', ICRA Workshop on Grasping Challenge, 2014.
  22. M. Li, S. Luo, L.D. Seneviratne, T. Nanayakkara, K. Althoefer, P. Dasgupta, ``Haptics for multi-fingered palpation.'', IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC), 2013.
  23. H. Xie, H. Liu, S. Luo, L.D. Seneviratne, K. Althoefer, ``Fiber optics tactile array probe for tissue palpation.'' IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2013. [PDF]