publications

Recent publications.

2025

  1. Extraction of Non-Regular Pegs Using Tactile Sensing and Reinforcement Learning from Demonstrations Galaiya, Viral, Masinjila, Ruslan, Khatibi, Soheil, Oliveira, Thiago Eustaquio Alves, Fonseca, Vinicius Prado, and Jiang, Xianta In 2025 IEEE International systems Conference (SysCon) 2025
  2. Investigating the Impact of Training Protocols on Myoelectric Pattern Recognition Control in Upper-Limb Amputees Mohammadreza, Elaheh, Da Fonseca, Vinicius Prado, and Jiang, Xianta IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering 2025
  3. A Multimodal Dataset for Robotic Peg Extraction Based on Bioin-Tacto Sensor Modules Galayia, Viral, Masinjila, Ruslan, Khatibi, Soheil, Oliveira, Thiago Eustaquio Alves, Jiang, Xianta, and Fonseca, Vinicius Prado Data in Brief 2025
  4. A dataset for tactile textures on uneven surfaces collected using a BioIn-Tacto sensing module Marzani, Maliheh, Khatibi, Soheil, Masinjila, Ruslan, Fonseca, Vinicius Prado, and Oliveira, Thiago Eustaquio Alves Data in Brief 2025

2024

  1. Comparing IMU-equipped Parallel and Flexible Grippers for Tactile Object Classification Boente, Alexandre S, Oliveira, Thiago EA, Da Fonseca, Vinicius P, and Rosa, Paulo FF In IECON 2024-50th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society 2024
  2. Tactile-based robotic peg extraction dataset Galaiya, Viral, Masinjila, Ruslan, Khatibi, Soheil, Oliveira, Thiago Eustaquio, Jiang, Xianta, and Fonseca, Vinicius 2024
  3. Dynamic tactile data of textures on uneven surfaces Marzani, Maliheh, Khatibi, Soheil, Masinjila, Ruslan, Fonseca, Vinicius, and Oliveira, Thiago Eustaquio 2024
  4. Grasp Approach Under Positional Uncertainty Using Compliant Tactile Sensing Modules and Reinforcement Learning Galaiya, Viral Rasik, De Oliveira, Thiago Eustaquio Alves, Jiang, Xianta, and Da Fonseca, Vinicius Prado In 2024 IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE) 2024
  5. Comparing Pre-Trained Object Detection Models for Autonomous Grasp on Affordable Prosthetic Hands Cardoso, Igor, Gomes, Carlos, Rosa, Paulo FF, and Fonseca, Vinicius Prado In 2024 IEEE International Symposium on Medical Measurements and Applications (MeMeA) 2024
  6. Unbalanced fault classification using active learning in synthetic fiber manufacturing process Das, Shemonto, Simha, Vimal, Swamidas, Joshua, Soares, Amilcar, and Da Fonseca, Vinicius Prado In 2024 IEEE International Systems Conference (SysCon) 2024
  7. Leveraging Compliant Tactile Perception for Haptic Blind Surface Reconstruction Cheret, Laurent YE Ramos, Da Fonseca, Vinicius Prado, and Oliveira, Thiago E Alves In 2024 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2024
  8. A comprehensive data pipeline for comparing the effects of momentum on sports leagues Noel, Jordan Truman Paul, Fonseca, Vinicius, and Soares, Amilcar Data 2024
  9. The Use of Momentum-Inspired Features in Pre-Game Prediction Models for the Sport of Ice Hockey Noel, Jordan TP, Fonseca, Vinicius Prado, and Soares, Amilcar Journal homepage: http://iacss. org/index. php? id 2024
  10. Active learning strategies for robotic tactile texture recognition tasks Das, Shemonto, Fonseca, Vinicius, and Soares, Amilcar Frontiers in Robotics and AI 2024

2023

  1. Comparing Data Representation Techniques for Tactile Sensing in Classification Tasks Danyamraju, V Naga Sai Siddhartha, Prottoy, Tahsin Ahmed, Jobayer, SM Shahriar, and Fonseca, Vinicius Prado In 2023 IEEE SENSORS 2023
  2. BioIn-Tacto: A compliant multi-modal tactile sensing module for robotic tasks Oliveira, Thiago Eustaquio Alves, and Fonseca, Vinicius Prado HardwareX 2023
  3. A multimodal tactile dataset for dynamic texture classification Lima, Bruno Monteiro Rocha, Danyamraju, Venkata Naga Sai Siddhartha, Oliveira, Thiago Eustaquio Alves, and Fonseca, Vinicius Prado Data in Brief 2023
  4. Multimodal Tactile Texture Dataset Fonseca, Vinicius Prado 2023
  5. Exploring tactile temporal features for object pose estimation during robotic manipulation Galaiya, Viral Rasik, Asfour, Mohammed, Oliveira, Thiago Eustaquio, Jiang, Xianta, and Fonseca, Vinicius Sensors 2023

2022

  1. Integrating computer vision to prosthetic hand control with sEMG: Preliminary results in grasp classification Wang, Shuo, Zheng, Jingjing, Huang, Ziwei, Zhang, Xiaoqin, Fonseca, Vinicius, Zheng, Bin, and Jiang, Xianta Frontiers in Robotics and AI 2022
  2. BioIn-Tacto: tactile sensing module design files and source code Oliveira, Thiago Eustaquio Alves, and Fonseca, Vinicius Prado 2022 [Abs]
  3. PTRAIL—A python package for parallel trajectory data preprocessing Haidri, Salman, Haranwala, Yaksh J, Bogorny, Vania, Renso, Chiara, Fonseca, Vinicius Prado, and Soares, Amilcar SoftwareX 2022
  4. Tactile object recognition in early phases of grasping using underactuated robotic hands Fonseca, Vinicius Prado, Jiang, Xianta, Petriu, Emil M, and Oliveira, Thiago Eustaquio Alves Intelligent Service Robotics 2022
  5. A dashboard tool for mobility data mining preprocessing tasks Haranwala, Yaksh J, Haidri, Salman, Tricco, Terrence S, Fonseca, Vinicius P, and Soares, Amilcar In 2022 23rd IEEE International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM) 2022
  6. Evaluating data representations for object recognition during pick-and-place manipulation tasks Carvalho, Humberto Navarro, Castro, Lucas Pontes, Do Rego, Thaı́s G, Silva Filho, Telmo M, AM Barbosa, Yuri, Batista, Leonardo Vidal, Soares, Amilcar, and Da Fonseca, Vinicius Prado In 2022 IEEE International Systems Conference (SysCon) 2022
  7. Neuro-fuzzy grasp control for a teleoperated five finger anthropomorphic robotic hand Welyhorsky, Maxwell, Da Fonseca, Vinicius Prado, Zhu, Qi, Lima, Bruno Monteiro Rocha, De Oliveira, Thiago Eustaquio Alves, and Petriu, Emil M In 2022 IEEE International Systems Conference (SysCon) 2022

2021

  1. Small scale unmanned aircraft system and photogrammetry applied for 3d modeling of historical buildings Santos Boente, Alexandre, Oliveira, Thiago Eustaquio A, Baldivieso, TJ, Fonseca, Vinicius Prado, and Rosa, PF In Proceedings of the Twelfth International Conference on Sensor Device Technologies and Applications SENSORDEVICES, Athens, Greece 2021
  2. Classification of textures using a tactile-enabled finger in dynamic exploration tasks Lima, Bruno Monteiro Rocha, Oliveira, Thiago Eustaquio Alves, and Fonseca, Vinicius Prado In 2021 IEEE Sensors 2021
  3. Tactile sensor analysis during early stages of manipulation for single grasp identification of daily objects Fonseca, Vinicius Engineering Proceedings 2021

2020

  1. Dynamic tactile exploration for texture classification using a miniaturized multi-modal tactile sensor and machine learning Lima, Bruno Monteiro Rocha, Fonseca, Vinicius Prado, Oliveira, Thiago Eustaquio Alves, Zhu, Qi, and Petriu, Emil M In 2020 IEEE International Systems Conference (SysCon) 2020
  2. Teleoperated grasping using a robotic hand and a haptic-feedback data glove Zhu, Qi, Fonseca, Vinicius Prado, Lima, Bruno Monteiro Rocha, Welyhorsky, Maxwell, Goubran, Miriam, Oliveira, Thiago Eustaquio Alves, and Petriu, Emil M In 2020 IEEE International Systems Conference (SysCon) 2020

2019

  1. Heart rate detection using a miniaturized multimodal tactile sensor Lima, Bruno Monteiro Rocha, Oliveira, Thiago Eustaquio Alves, Fonseca, Vinicius Prado, Zhu, Qi, Goubran, Miriam, Groza, Voicu Z, and Petriu, Emil M In 2019 IEEE International Symposium on Medical Measurements and Applications (MeMeA) 2019
  2. Estimating the orientation of objects from tactile sensing data using machine learning methods and visual frames of reference Fonseca, Vinicius, Oliveira, Thiago Eustaquio, and Petriu, Emil M Sensors 2019
  3. In-hand telemanipulation using a robotic hand and biology-inspired haptic sensing Fonseca, Vinicius Prado, Lima, Bruno Monteiro Rocha, Oliveira, Thiago Eustaquio Alves, Zhu, Qi, Groza, Voicu Z, and Petriu, Emil M In 2019 IEEE International Symposium on Medical Measurements and Applications (MeMeA) 2019
  4. End-effector approach flexibilization in a surface approximation task using a bioinspired tactile sensing module Oliveira, Thiago Eustaquio Alves, Fonseca, Vinicius Prado, Lima, Bruno Monteiro Rocha, Cretu, Ana-Maria, and Petriu, M In 2019 IEEE International Symposium on Robotic and Sensors Environments (ROSE) 2019

2018

  1. Teaching a robot sign language using vision-based hand gesture recognition Zhi, Da, Oliveira, Thiago E Alves, Fonseca, Vinicius Prado, and Petriu, Emil M In 2018 IEEE International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Virtual Environments for Measurement Systems and Applications (CIVEMSA) 2018
  2. Object recognition through manipulation using tactile enabled prosthetic fingers and feedback glove-experimental study Kucherhan, Daniel J, Goubran, Miriam, Fonseca, Vinicius P, Oliveira, Thiago E Alves, Petriu, Emil M, and Groza, Voicu In 2018 IEEE International Symposium on Medical Measurements and Applications (MeMeA) 2018

2017

  1. Fuzzy controlled object manipulation using a three-fingered robotic hand Fonseca, Vinicius Prado, Kucherhan, Daniel John, Oliveira, Thiago E Alves, Zhi, Da, and Petriu, Emil M In 2017 Annual IEEE international systems conference (SysCon) 2017
  2. Stable grasping and object reorientation with a three-fingered robotic hand Fonseca, Vinicius Prado, Oliveira, Thiago E Alves, Eyre, Katerina, and Petriu, Emil M In 2017 IEEE international symposium on robotics and intelligent sensors (IRIS) 2017

2015

  1. Touch sensing for humanoid robots De Oliveira, Thiago Eustaquio Alves, Cretu, Ana-Maria, Da Fonseca, Vinicius Prado, and Petriu, Emil M IEEE Instrumentation & Measurement Magazine 2015
  2. Computational intelligence and mechatronics solutions for robotic tactile object recognition Cretu, Ana-Maria, De Oliveira, Thiago Eustaquio Alves, Da Fonseca, Vinicius Prado, Tawbe, Bilal, Petriu, Emil M, and Groza, Voicu Z In 2015 IEEE 9th international symposium on intelligent signal processing (WISP) proceedings 2015
  3. Data-driven analysis of kinaesthetic and tactile information for shape classification Oliveira, Thiago Eustaquio Alves, Fonseca, Vinicius Prado, Huluta, Emanuil, Rosa, Paulo FF, and Petriu, Emil M In 2015 IEEE International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Virtual Environments for Measurement Systems and Applications (CIVEMSA) 2015