Dr Lorenzo Jamone
PhDSenior Lecturer in Robotics
School of Engineering and Materials Science
Queen Mary University of London
l.jamone@qmul.ac.ukQueen Mary University of London
lorejam.blogspot.com/
Research
Cognitive Robotics, Robotic manipulation, Tactile sensing, Robot Learning, Haptics
Publications
Publications of specific relevance to Advanced Robotics2022
Kirby E, Zenha R and Jamone L (2022). Comparing Single Touch to Dynamic Exploratory Procedures for Robotic Tactile Object Recognition. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters vol. 7, (2) 4252-4258. 10.1109/LRA.2022.3151261Taniguchi T, Nagai T, Shimoda S, Cangelosi A, Demiris Y, Matsuo Y, Doya K, Ogata T, Jamone L, Nagai Y, Ugur E, Mochihashi D, Unno Y, Okanoya K and Hashimoto T (2022). Special issue on symbol emergence in robotics and cognitive systems (II). Advanced Robotics vol. 36, (5-6) 217-218. 10.1080/01691864.2022.2042892Dehban A, Zhang S, Cauli N, Jamone L and Santos-Victor J (2022). Learning Deep Features for Robotic Inference from Physical Interactions. IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems 10.1109/TCDS.2022.3152383Taniguchi T, Nagai T, Shimoda S, Cangelosi A, Demiris Y, Matsuo Y, Doya K, Ogata T, Jamone L, Nagai Y, Ugur E, Mochihashi D, Unno Y, Okanoya K and Hashimoto T (2022). Special issue on Symbol Emergence in Robotics and Cognitive Systems (I). Advanced Robotics vol. 36, (1-2) 1-2. 10.1080/01691864.2022.20234012021
Shimoda S, Jamone L, Ognibene D, Nagai T, Sciutti A, Costa-Garcia A, Oseki Y and Taniguchi T (2021). What is the role of the next generation of cognitive robotics? Advanced Robotics 10.1080/01691864.2021.2011780Vitanov I, Farkhatdinov I, Denoun B, Palermo F, Otaran A, Brown J, Omarali B, Abrar T, Hansard M, Oh C, Poslad S, Liu C, Godaba H, Zhang K, Jamone L and Althoefer K (2021). A Suite of Robotic Solutions for Nuclear Waste Decommissioning. Robotics vol. 10, (4) 112-112. 10.3390/robotics10040112Ozkan EE, Gurion T, Hough J, Healey PGT and Jamone L (2021). Specific hand motion patterns correlate to miscommunications during dyadic conversations. IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning, ICDL 2021 10.1109/ICDL49984.2021.9515613Slonina Z, Bonzini AA, Brown J, Wang S, Farkhatdinov I, Althoefer K, Jamone L and Versace E (2021). Using RoboChick to Identify the Behavioral Features Promoting Social Interactions. IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning, ICDL 2021 Conference: 2021 IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL) 10.1109/ICDL49984.2021.9515641Siddiqui MS, Coppola C, Solak G and Jamone L (2021). Grasp Stability Prediction for a Dexterous Robotic Hand Combining Depth Vision and Haptic Bayesian Exploration. Frontiers in Robotics and AI vol. 8, 10.3389/frobt.2021.703869Neto M, Ribeiro P, Nunes R, Jamone L, Bernardino A and Cardoso S (2021). A soft tactile sensor based on magnetics and hybrid flexible-rigid electronics. Sensors vol. 21, (15) 10.3390/s21155098Denoun B, Leon B, Hansard M and Jamone L (2021). Grasping Robot Integration and Prototyping: The GRIP Software Framework. IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine vol. 28, (2) 101-111. 10.1109/MRA.2021.3066049Siddiqui MS, Coppola C, Solak G and Jamone L (2021). Discovering Stable Robot Grasps for Unknown Objects in Presence of Uncertainty Using Bayesian Models. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformat vol. 13054 LNAI, 46-55. 10.1007/978-3-030-89177-0_5Zenha R, Denoun B, Coppola C and Jamone L (2021). Tactile Slip Detection in the Wild Leveraging Distributed Sensing of both Normal and Shear Forces. IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems 2708-2713. 10.1109/IROS51168.2021.96366022020
Ribeiro P, Cardoso S, Bernardino A and Jamone L (2020). Fruit quality control by surface analysis using a bio-inspired soft tactile sensor. IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems 8875-8881. 10.1109/IROS45743.2020.9340955Omarali B, Denoun B, Althoefer K, Jamone L, Valle M and Farkhatdinov I (2020). Virtual Reality based Telerobotics Framework with Depth Cameras. 29th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, RO-MAN 2020 1217-1222. 10.1109/RO-MAN47096.2020.9223445Frazier PA, Jamone L, Althoefer K and Calvo P (2020). Plant Bioinspired Ecological Robotics. Frontiers in Robotics and AI vol. 7, 10.3389/frobt.2020.00079Hoffmann M, Lanillos P, Jamone L, Pitti A and Somogyi E (2020). Editorial: Body Representations, Peripersonal Space, and the Self: Humans, Animals, Robots. Frontiers in Neurorobotics vol. 14, 10.3389/fnbot.2020.00035Ribeiro P, Cardoso S, Bernardino A and Jamone L (2020). Highly sensitive bio-inspired sensor for fine surface exploration and characterization. Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation 625-631. 10.1109/ICRA40945.2020.9197305Junput B, Farkhatdinov I and Jamone L (2020). Touch It, Rub It, Feel It! Haptic Rendering of Physical Textures with a Low Cost Wearable System. 10.1007/978-3-030-63486-5_292019
Taniguchi T, Piater J, Worgotter F, Ugur E, Hoffmann M, Jamone L, Nagai T, Rosman B, Matsuka T, Iwahashi N and Oztop E (2019). Symbol Emergence in Cognitive Developmental Systems: A Survey. IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems vol. 11, (4) 494-516. 10.1109/TCDS.2018.2867772Solak G and Jamone L (2019). Learning by Demonstration and Robust Control of Dexterous In-Hand Robotic Manipulation Skills. IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems 8246-8251. 10.1109/IROS40897.2019.8967567Saponaro G, JAMONE L, Alexandre B and Giampiero S (2019). Beyond the Self: Using Grounded Affordances to Interpret and Describe Others’ Actions. IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems 10.1109/TCDS.2018.2882140Junput B, Wei X and Jamone L (2019). Feel It on Your Fingers: Dataglove with Vibrotactile Feedback for Virtual Reality and Telerobotics. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformat vol. 11649 LNAI, 375-385. 10.1007/978-3-030-23807-0_312018
Holgado AC, Alvarez Lopez JA, Schmitz A, Tomo TP, Somlor S, Jamone L and Sugano S (2018). An Adjustable Force Sensitive Sensor with an Electromagnet for a Soft, Distributed, Digital 3-axis Skin Sensor. IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems 2582-2588. 10.1109/IROS.2018.8593757Castanheira J, Vicente P, Martinez-Cantin R, Jamone L and Bernardino A (2018). Finding safe 3D robot grasps through efficient haptic exploration with unscented Bayesian optimization and collision penalty. IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems 1643-1648. 10.1109/IROS.2018.8594009Vallverdú J, Trovato G and Jamone L (2018). Allocentric emotional affordances in HRI: The multimodal binding. Multimodal Technologies and Interaction vol. 2, (4) 10.3390/mti2040078Schydlo P, Rakovic M, Jamone L and Santos-Victor J (2018). Anticipation in Human-Robot Cooperation: A Recurrent Neural Network Approach for Multiple Action Sequences Prediction. Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation 5909-5914. 10.1109/ICRA.2018.8460924Zenha R, Vicente P, Jamone L and Bernardino A (2018). Incremental adaptation of a robot body schema based on touch events. 2018 Joint IEEE 8th International Conference on Development and Learning and Epigenetic Robotics, ICDL-EpiRob 2018 119-124. 10.1109/DEVLRN.2018.8761022HOUGH J, JAMONE L, Schlangen D, Walck G and Haschke R (2018). Towards a Types-As-Classifiers Approach to Dialogue Processing in Human-Robot Interaction., Editors: HOWES C, Dobnik S and Breitholtz E. Conference: Workshop on Dialogue and Perception (DaP 2018) Antunes A, Saponaro G, Morse A, Jamone L, Santos-Victor J and Cangelosi A (2018). Learn, plan, remember: A developmental robot architecture for task solving. 7th Joint IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning and on Epigenetic Robotics, ICDL-EpiRob 2017 vol. 2018-January, 283-289. 10.1109/DEVLRN.2017.8329819Saponaro G, Vicente P, Dehban A, Jamone L, Bernardino A and Santos-Victor J (2018). Learning at the ends: From hand to tool affordances in humanoid robots. 7th Joint IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning and on Epigenetic Robotics, ICDL-EpiRob 2017 vol. 2018-January, 321-337. 10.1109/DEVLRN.2017.8329826Tomo TP, Regoli M, Schmitz A, Natale L, Kristanto H, Somlor S, Jamone L, Metta G and Sugano S (2018). A New Silicone Structure for uSkin—A Soft, Distributed, Digital 3-Axis Skin Sensor and Its Integration on the Humanoid Robot iCub. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters vol. 3, (3) 2584-2591. 10.1109/LRA.2018.2812915Jamone L, Ugur E, Cangelosi A, Fadiga L, Bernardino A, Piater J and Santos-Victor J (2018). Affordances in Psychology, Neuroscience, and Robotics: A Survey. IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems vol. 10, (1) 4-25. 10.1109/TCDS.2016.2594134Jamone L, Ugur E and Santos-Victor J (2018). Guest Editorial Special Issue on Affordances. IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems vol. 10, (1) 1-3. 10.1109/TCDS.2018.2808978Vicente P, Jamone L and Bernardino A (2018). Markerless Eye-Hand kinematic calibration on the iCub humanoid robot. Frontiers Robotics AI vol. 5, (JUN) 10.3389/frobt.2018.000462017
Dehban A, Jamone L, Kampff AR and Santos-Victor J (2017). A deep probabilistic framework for heterogeneous self-supervised learning of affordances. IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots 476-483. 10.1109/HUMANOIDS.2017.8246915Ribeiro P, Khan MA, Alfadhel A, Kosel J, Franco F, Cardoso S, Bernardino A, Santos-Victor J and Jamone L (2017). A Miniaturized Force Sensor Based on Hair-Like Flexible Magnetized Cylinders Deposited over a Giant Magnetoresistive Sensor. IEEE Transactions on Magnetics vol. 53, (11) 10.1109/TMAG.2017.2714625Saponaro G, Jamone L, Bernardino A and Salvi G (2017). Interactive Robot Learning of Gestures, Language and Affordances. Conference: GLU 2017 International Workshop on Grounding Language Understanding 10.21437/glu.2017-17Ribeiro PM, Alfhadel A, Kosel J, Franco F, Cardoso S, Bernardino A, Jamone L and Santos-Victor J (2017). A miniaturized force sensor based on hair-like flexible magnetized cylinders deposited over a giant magnetoresistive sensor. 2017 IEEE International Magnetics Conference, INTERMAG 2017 10.1109/INTMAG.2017.8007852JAMONE L (2017). Covering a Robot Fingertip with uSkin: a Soft Electronic Skin with Distributed 3-axis Force Sensitive Elements for Robot Hands. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters 10.1109/LRA.2017.2734965Paulino T, Ribeiro P, Neto M, Cardoso S, Schmitz A, Santos-Victor J, Bernardino A and Jamone L (2017). Low-cost 3-axis soft tactile sensors for the human-friendly robot Vizzy. Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation 966-971. 10.1109/ICRA.2017.7989118Vicente P, Jamone L and Bernardino A (2017). Towards markerless visual servoing of grasping tasks for humanoid robots. Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation 3811-3816. 10.1109/ICRA.2017.7989441Ribeiro P, Asadullah Khan M, Alfadhel A, Kosel J, Franco F, Cardoso S, Bernardino A, Schmitz A, Santos-Victor J and Jamone L (2017). Bioinspired Ciliary Force Sensor for Robotic Platforms. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters vol. 2, (2) 971-976. 10.1109/LRA.2017.2656249Saponaro G, Vicente P, Dehban A, Jamone L, Bernardino A, Santos-Victor J and IEEE (2017). Learning at the Ends: From Hand to Tool Affordances in Humanoid Robots. 2017 THE SEVENTH JOINT IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DEVELOPMENT AND LEARNING AND EPIGENETIC ROBOTICS (ICDL-EPIROB) 331-337. 2016
Tomo TP, Wong WK, Schmitz A, Kristanto H, Sarazin A, Jamone L, Somlor S and Sugano S (2016). A modular, distributed, soft, 3-axis sensor system for robot hands. IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots 454-460. 10.1109/HUMANOIDS.2016.7803315Nogueira J, Martinez-Cantin R, Bernardino A and Jamone L (2016). Unscented Bayesian optimization for safe robot grasping. IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems vol. 2016-November, 1967-1972. 10.1109/IROS.2016.7759310Vicente P, Jamone L and Bernardino A (2016). Robotic Hand Pose Estimation Based on Stereo Vision and GPU-enabled Internal Graphical Simulation. Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems: Theory and Applications vol. 83, (3-4) 339-358. 10.1007/s10846-016-0376-6Antunes A, Jamone L, Saponaro G, Bernardino A and Ventura R (2016). From human instructions to robot actions: Formulation of goals, affordances and probabilistic planning. Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation vol. 2016-June, 5449-5454. 10.1109/ICRA.2016.7487757Dehban A, Jamone L, Kampff AR and Santos-Victor J (2016). Denoising auto-encoders for learning of objects and tools affordances in continuous space. Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation vol. 2016-June, 4866-4871. 10.1109/ICRA.2016.7487691Tomo TP, Somlor S, Schmitz A, Jamone L, Huang W, Kristanto H and Sugano S (2016). Design and Characterization of a Three-Axis Hall Effect-Based Soft Skin Sensor. Sensors (Basel) vol. 16, (4) 10.3390/s16040491Vicente P, Jamone L and Bernardino A (2016). Online body schema adaptation based on internal mental simulation and multisensory feedback. Frontiers Robotics AI vol. 3, (MAR) 10.3389/frobt.2016.00007Jamone L, Bernardino A and Santos-Victor J (2016). Benchmarking the Grasping Capabilities of the iCub Hand with the YCB Object and Model Set. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters vol. 1, (1) 288-294. 10.1109/LRA.2016.25172092015
Tomo TP, Somlor S, Schmitz A, Hashimoto S, Sugano S and Jamone L (2015). Development of a hall-effect based skin sensor. 2015 IEEE SENSORS - Proceedings 10.1109/ICSENS.2015.7370435Jamone L, Natale L, Metta G and Sandini G (2015). Highly sensitive soft tactile sensors for an anthropomorphic robotic hand. IEEE Sensors Journal vol. 15, (8) 4226-4233. 10.1109/JSEN.2015.2417759Cardoso C, Jamone L and Bernardino A (2015). A novel approach to dynamic movement imitation based on quadratic programming. Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation vol. 2015-June, (June) 906-911. 10.1109/ICRA.2015.7139285Vicente P, Ferreira R, Jamone L and Bernardino A (2015). GPU-enabled particle based optimization for robotic-hand pose estimation and self-calibration. Proceedings - 2015 IEEE International Conference on Autonomous Robot Systems and Competitions, ICARSC 2015 3-8. 10.1109/ICARSC.2015.25Brandão M, Jamone L, Kryczka P, Endo N, Hashimoto K and Takanishi A (2015). Reaching for the unreachable: Integration of locomotion and whole-body movements for extended visually guided reaching. IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots vol. 2015-February, (February) 28-33. 10.1109/HUMANOIDS.2013.7029951Jamone L, Saponaro G, Antunes A, Ventura R, Bernardino A and Santos-Victor J (2015). Learning object affordances for tool use and problem solving in cognitive robots. CEUR Workshop Proceedings vol. 1544, 68-82. 2014
Goncalves A, Abrantes J, Saponaro G, Jamone L and Bernardino A (2014). Learning intermediate object affordances: Towards the development of a tool concept. IEEE ICDL-EPIROB 2014 - 4th Joint IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning and on Epigenetic Robotics 482-488. 10.1109/DEVLRN.2014.6983027Vicente P, Ferreira R, Jamone L and Bernardino A (2014). Eye-hand online adaptation during reaching tasks in a humanoid robot. IEEE ICDL-EPIROB 2014 - 4th Joint IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning and on Epigenetic Robotics 175-180. 10.1109/DEVLRN.2014.6982978Jamone L, Fumagalli M, Natale L, Nori F, Metta G and Sandini G (2014). Control of physical interaction through tactile and force sensing during visually guided reaching. 2014 IEEE International Symposium on Intelligent Control, ISIC 2014 1360-1365. 10.1109/ISIC.2014.6967621Jamone L, Damas B and Santos-Victor J (2014). Incremental learning of context-dependent dynamic internal models for robot control. 2014 IEEE International Symposium on Intelligent Control, ISIC 2014 1336-1341. 10.1109/ISIC.2014.6967617Jamone L, Brandao M, Natale L, Hashimoto K, Sandini G and Takanishi A (2014). Autonomous online generation of a motor representation of the workspace for intelligent whole-body reaching. Robotics and Autonomous Systems vol. 62, (4) 556-567. 10.1016/j.robot.2013.12.011Gonçalves A, Saponaro G, Jamone L and Bernardino A (2014). Learning visual affordances of objects and tools through autonomous robot exploration. 2014 IEEE International Conference on Autonomous Robot Systems and Competitions, ICARSC 2014 128-133. 10.1109/ICARSC.2014.68497742013
Trovato G, Zecca M, Sessa S, Jamone L, Ham J, Hashimoto K and Takanishi A (2013). Towards culture-specific robot customisation: A study on greeting interaction with Egyptians. Proceedings - IEEE International Workshop on Robot and Human Interactive Communication 447-452. 10.1109/ROMAN.2013.6628520Damas B, Jamone L and Santos-Victor J (2013). Open and closed-loop task space trajectory control of redundant robots using learned models. IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems 163-169. 10.1109/IROS.2013.6696348Trovato G, Zecca M, Sessa S, Jamone L, Ham J, Hashimoto K and Takanishi A (2013). Cross-cultural study on human-robot greeting interaction: acceptance and discomfort by Egyptians and Japanese. Paladyn Journal of Behavioral Robotics vol. 4, (2) 83-93. 10.2478/pjbr-2013-0006Jamone L, Damas B, Santos-Victor J and Takanishi A (2013). Online learning of humanoid robot kinematics under switching tools contexts. Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation 4811-4817. 10.1109/ICRA.2013.6631263Otani T, Iizuka A, Takamoto D, Motohashi H, Kishi T, Kryczka P, Endo N, Jamone L, Hashimoto K, Takashima T, Lim HO and Takanishi A (2013). New shank mechanism for humanoid robot mimicking human-like walking in horizontal and frontal plane. Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation 667-672. 10.1109/ICRA.2013.6630644Kishi T, Kojima T, Endo N, Destephe M, Otani T, Jamone L, Kryczka P, Trovato G, Hashimoto K, Cosentino S and Takanishi A (2013). Impression survey of the emotion expression humanoid robot with mental model based dynamic emotions. Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation 1663-1668. 10.1109/ICRA.2013.66307932012
Jamone L, Natale L, Sandini G and Takanishi A (2012). Interactive online learning of the kinematic workspace of a humanoid robot. IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems 2606-2612. 10.1109/IROS.2012.6385595Jamone L, Natale L, Hashimoto K, Sandini G and Takanishi A (2012). Learning the reachable space of a humanoid robot: A bio-inspired approach. Proceedings of the IEEE RAS and EMBS International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics 1148-1154. 10.1109/BioRob.2012.6290729Jamone L, Natale L, Nori F, Metta G and Sandini G (2012). Autonomous online learning of reaching behavior in a humanoid robot. International Journal of Humanoid Robotics vol. 9, (3) 10.1142/S021984361250017XJamone L, Damas B, Endo N, Santos-Victor J and Takanishi A (2012). Incremental Development of Multiple Tool Models for Robotic Reaching Through Autonomous Exploration. Paladyn Journal of Behavioral Robotics vol. 3, (3) 113-127. 10.2478/s13230-013-0102-z2011
Jamone L, Natale L, Hashimoto K, Sandini G and Takanishi A (2011). Learning task space control through goal directed exploration. 2011 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, ROBIO 2011 702-708. 10.1109/ROBIO.2011.61813682010
Jamone L, Fumagalli M, Metta G, Natale L, Nori F and Sandini G (2010). Machine-learning based control of a human-like tendon-driven neck. Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation 859-865. 10.1109/ROBOT.2010.5509835Fumagalli M, Gijsberts A, Ivaldi S, Jamone L, Metta G, Natale L, Nori F and Sandini G (2010). Learning to exploit proximal force sensing: A comparison approach. Studies in Computational Intelligence vol. 264, 149-167. 10.1007/978-3-642-05181-4_72009
Fumagalli M, Jamone L, Metta G, Natale L, Nori F, Parmiggiani A, Randazzo M and Sandini G (2009). A force sensor for the control of a human-like tendon driven neck. 9th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots, HUMANOIDS09 478-485. 10.1109/ICHR.2009.53795332007
Nori F, Jamone L, Sandini G and Metta G (2007). Acc5urate control of a human-like tendon-driven neck. Proceedings of the 2007 7th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots, HUMANOIDS 2007 371-378. 10.1109/ICHR.2007.48138962006
Nori F, Metta G, Jamone L and Sandini G (2006). Adaptive combination of motor primitives. Proceedings of AISB'06: Adaptation in Artificial and Biological Systems vol. 1, 193-196. Jamone L, Metta G, Nori F and Sandini G (2006). James: A humanoid robot acting over an unstructured world. Proceedings of the 2006 6th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots, HUMANOIDS 143-150. 10.1109/ICHR.2006.321376Grants
Grants of specific relevance to Advanced Robotics
National Centre for Nuclear Robotics (NCNR)Stolkin R, Taylor CJ, Montazeri A, Giuliani M, Richardson TS, Althoefer KA, Scott TB, Farkhatdinov I, Hansard ME, Pipe AG, Leonardis AXC, Cavallaro AA, Stone R, Richards AG, Mistry MN, Peer A, Mcdonald-Maier KD, Melhuish C, Herrmann G, Jamone L, Poslad S, Hanheide MA, Neumann G and Malkin R
£11,588,430 Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (01-10-2017 - 31-03-2021)