I am a postdoctoral research fellow at University College Dublin. I am currently studying the sense of touch and its role in dexterous manipulation.
More precisely, I try to understand how tactile sensory informations is used by the nervous system to adapt grip forces and maintain a stable grip during active object manipulation.
I also design and develop tactile robotic sensors capable of detecting slippage and able to measure the coefficient of friction of a surface.
My goal is to implement these sensors onto robotic grippers to enable robots to perceive, explore and manipulate their environment.
I am also interested in control theory and human motor control. Indeed, during my PhD I studied handedness and
the differences in control strategy between the two arms.
2023
Incipient Slip Detection with a Biomimetic Skin Morphology
2023
Open-source instrumented object to study dexterous object manipulation
2023
Identifying Expert Behavior in Offline Training Datasets Improves Behavioral Cloning of Robotic Manipulation Policies
2023
Robust Learning-Based Incipient Slip Detection Using the PapillArray Optical Tactile Sensor for Improved Robotic Gripping
2023
Improving Behavioural Cloning with Positive Unlabeled Learning
2023
A Tactile Sensing Concept for 3-D Displacement and 3-D Force Measurement Using Light Angle and Intensity Sensing
2023
Different control strategies drive interlimb differences in performance and adaptation during reaching movements in novel dynamics
2023
Biomechanics of Finger Pad Response under Torsion
2022
Incipient Slip Detection for Rectilinear Movements using the PapillArray Tactile Sensor
2022
Behaviour Discriminator: A Simple Data Filtering Method to Improve Offline Policy Learning
2022
Dexterous Robotic Manipulation using Deep Reinforcement Learning and Knowledge Transfer for Complex Sparse Reward-based Tasks
2021
Modeling the Optical Sensing Principle of the
PapillArray Tactile Sensor
2021
Solving the Real Robot Challenge using Deep Reinforcement Learning
2019
Robot-assisted line bisection in patients with Complex Regional Pain Syndrome
2018
Optimal use of limb mechanics distributes control during bimanual tasks
2016
Simple and reliable method to estimate the fingertip static coefficient of friction in precision grip
PhD in Neuroscience
UCLouvain
September 2013 - December 2017
Master in Electromechanical Engineering,
with focus in Mechatronics
UCLouvain
2011 - 2013
Bachelor in Electromechanical engineering
UCLouvain
2008 - 2011
Postdoctoral Researcher
University College Dublin
September 2020 - present
• I am currently studying the sense of touch and its role in dexterous manipulation. More precisely, I try to understand how tactile sensory informations is used by the nervous system to adapt grip forces and maintain a stable grip during active object
manipulation.
• I also design and develop tactile robotic sensors capable of detecting slippage and able to measure the coefficient of friction of a surface. My goal is to implement these sensors onto robotic grippers to enable robots to perceive, explore and manipulate their environment.
IC analog designer
nSilition sprl,
January 2018 - August 2020
• I designed and layouted the complete power management unit for various devices for automotive, spatial, high speed communication purposes and low power devices. This includes the design of Bandgaps, LDOs, Current references.
• I designed specific blocs such as temperature sensors and oscillators.
• I updated the design of LVDS transmitter and receiver devices with transmission frequencies up to 2.5GHz.
• I designed analog blocs in high voltage (40V) technology.
• I have experience in radiation tolerant analog design.
• I performed mixed-mode simulations of complex mixed-signal devices to verify these test specifications through simulation.
• I layouted several devices in 180nm and 65nm technology. Including several high frequency and high power devices.