Publications

Yijiong Lin, Bowen Deng,, Chenghua Lu, Max Yang, Efi Psomopoulou, Nathan F. Lepora, Under Review 2025 (2021). NeuralTouch: Neural Descriptors for Precise Sim-to-Real Tactile Robot Control.

Harrison Field, Max Yang, Yijiong Lin, Efi Psomopoulou, David A.W. Barton, Nathan F. Lepora, Conference of Robot Learning (CoRL) 2025 (2020). Text2Touch: Tactile In-Hand Manipulation with LLM-Designed Reward Functions.

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Max Yang, Chenghua Lu, Alex Church, Yijiong Lin, Chris Ford, Efi Psomopoulou, David A.W. Barton, Nathan F. Lepora, Conference of Robot Learning (CoRL) 2024 (2019). AnyRotate: Gravity Invariant In-Hand Object Rotation with Sim-to-Real Touch.

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Mauro Comi, Allessio Tonioni, Max Yang, Jonathan Tremblay, Valts Blukis, Yijiong Lin, Nathan F. Lepora, Laurence Aitchison, 3DV 2024 (2016). Snap-it, Tap-it, Splat-it: Tactile-Informed 3D Gaussian Splatting for Reconstructing Challenging Surfaces.

Wen Fan, Max Yang, Yifan Xing, Nathan F. Lepora, Dandan Zhang, International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2023 (2016). Tac-VGNN: A Voronoi Graph Neural Network for Pose-Based Tactile Servoing.

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Max Yang, Yijiong Lin, Alex Church, John Lloyd, Dandan Zhang, David A.W.Barton, Nathan F. Lepora, Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L) 2023 (2016). Sim-to-Real Model-Based and Model-Free Deep Reinforcement Learning for Tactile Pushing.

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Yijiong Lin, Alex Church, Max Yang, Haoran Li, John Lloyd, Dandan Zhang, Nathan F. Lepora, Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L) 2023 (2016). Bi-Touch: Bimanual Tactile Manipulation with Sim-to-Real Deep Reinforcement Learning.

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