Engineering For Intelligent Robotics

EFI Robotics

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Based in the School of Engineering Mathematics and Technology and led by Efi Psomopoulou, Assistant Professor at the University of Bristol and Bristol Robotics Laboratory. Part of the Dexterous Robotics Theme.


Research areas

EFI-Robotics aims to create dexterous and safe robotic physical interactions with the environment or humans in unstructured scenarios by combining control methods and machine learning techniques.

  • Stable object grasping and in-hand manipulation.
  • Human-inspired human-robot object handover strategies.
  • Control of flexible joint robots with variable elasticity.
  • Non model-based control of robotic systems with prescribed performance guarantees.
  • Bilateral teleoperation with haptic feedback.

latest posts

selected publications

  1. TRO
    Shear-based Grasp Control for Multi-fingered Underactuated Tactile Robotic Hands
    Christopher Ford, Haoran Li, Manuel Giuseppe Catalano, and 3 more authors
    IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 2025
    accepted
  2. preprint
    Tactile SoftHand-A: 3D-Printed, Tactile, Highly-underactuated, Anthropomorphic Robot Hand with an Antagonistic Tendon Mechanism
    Haoran Li, Christopher J Ford, Chenghua Lu, and 5 more authors
    The International Journal of Robotics Research, 2024
    under review
  3. CoRL
    AnyRotate: Gravity-Invariant In-Hand Object Rotation with Sim-to-Real Touch
    Max Yang, Chenghua Lu, Alex Church, and 6 more authors
    In 8th Annual Conference on Robot Learning, 2024
  4. RA-L
    BioTacTip: A Soft Biomimetic Optical Tactile Sensor for Efficient 3D Contact Localization and 3D Force Estimation
    Haoran Li, Saekwang Nam, Zhenyu Lu, and 3 more authors
    IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2024
  5. ICRA
    Tactile-Driven Gentle Grasping for Human-Robot Collaborative Tasks
    Christopher J. Ford, Haoran Li, John Lloyd, and 4 more authors
    In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2023
  6. RA-L | IROS
    A Robust Controller for Stable 3D Pinching Using Tactile Sensing
    Efi Psomopoulou, Nicholas Pestell, Fotios Papadopoulos, and 3 more authors
    Robotics & Automation Letters, IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2021
  7. TCST
    Prescribed Performance Tracking of a Variable Stiffness Actuated Robot
    Efi Psomopoulou, Achilles Theodorakopoulos, Zoe Doulgeri, and 1 more author
    IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, Sep 2015