Vinicius Prado da Fonseca

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EN-2012

240 Prince Phillip Drive

S.J. Carew Building

St. John's, NL A1B 3X5

Hi!
I’m an associate professor in the Department of Computer Science at the Memorial University of Newfoundland. My research interests are Robotics, Tactile sensing, Robotic manipulation, Human-machine interaction, Human-robot interaction, Applied machine learning and Artificial intelligence.

selected publications

  1. Investigating the Impact of Training Protocols on Myoelectric Pattern Recognition Control in Upper-Limb Amputees
    Elaheh Mohammadreza, Vinicius Prado Da Fonseca, and Xianta Jiang
    IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, 2025
  2. Leveraging Compliant Tactile Perception for Haptic Blind Surface Reconstruction
    Laurent YE Ramos Cheret, Vinicius Prado Da Fonseca, and Thiago E Alves Oliveira
    In 2024 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2024
  3. BioIn-Tacto: A compliant multi-modal tactile sensing module for robotic tasks
    Thiago Eustaquio Alves Oliveira and Vinicius Prado Fonseca
    HardwareX, 2023
  4. Tactile object recognition in early phases of grasping using underactuated robotic hands
    Vinicius Prado Fonseca, Xianta Jiang, Emil M Petriu, and 1 more author
    Intelligent Service Robotics, 2022
  5. Estimating the orientation of objects from tactile sensing data using machine learning methods and visual frames of reference
    Vinicius Fonseca, Thiago Eustaquio Oliveira, and Emil M Petriu
    Sensors, 2019