Dr. Yijiong Lin

:envelope: : yijiong {dot} lin {at} bristol {dot} ac {dot} uk

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林一炯，博士，英国布里斯托大学 Bristol Robotics Laboratory 博士后研究员。目前参与 英国基金委ARIA 资助的项目 Democratising Co-Design of Hardware and Control for Robot Dexterity，该项目属于 Robot Dexterity program，由 Prof. Nathan Lepora 和 Prof. Edward Johns（Imperial College London）领导。研究方向包括多模态感知、仿真到现实迁移以及面向灵巧机器人操作的深度强化学习方法。林一炯于 2025 年在英国 University of Bristol 获得 Engineering Mathematics 博士学位，导师为 Prof. Nathan Lepora、Dr. Efi Psomopoulou 和 Dr. Dandan Zhang。

业余爱好：羽毛球、游泳，喜欢带着相机探索城市与自然风景（一些照片)；也是一名猫派人士。:smile_cat:


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论文

  1. NeuralTouch: Neural Descriptors for Precise Sim-to-Real Tactile Robot Control
    Yijiong Lin, Bowen Deng, Chenghua Lu, Max Yang, Efi Psomopoulou, and Nathan F. Lepora
    IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics (TMECH), Jul 2026
    Accepted
  2. ViTacGen: Robotic Pushing with Vision-to-Touch Generation
    Zhiyuan Wu, Yijiong Lin, Yongqiang Zhao, Xuyang Zhang, Zhuo Chen, Nathan F. Lepora, and Shan Luo
    IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), Jul 2025
    Paper Code Website
  3. Tactile SoftHand-A: 3D-Printed, Tactile, Highly-Underactuated, Anthropomorphic Robot Hand with an Antagonistic Tendon Mechanism
    Haoran Li, Christopher J. Ford, Chenghua Lu, Yijiong Lin, Matteo Bianchi, Manuel G. Catalano, Efi Psomopoulou, and Nathan F. Lepora
    The International Journal of Robotics Research (IJRR), Jul 2025
    Paper Code
  4. Classification of Vision-Based Tactile Sensors: A Review
    Haoran Li, Yijiong Lin, Chenghua Lu, Max Yang, Efi Psomopoulou, and Nathan F. Lepora
    IEEE Sensors Journal, Jul 2025
    Paper
  5. SimShear: Sim-to-Real Shear-based Tactile Servoing
    Kipp Freud*, Yijiong Lin*, and Nathan F. Lepora
    9th Annual Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL), Jul 2025
    Website
  6. Text2Touch: Tactile In-Hand Manipulation with LLM-Designed Reward Functions
    Harrison Field, Max Yang, Yijiong Lin, Efi Psomopoulou, David A.W. Barton, and Nathan F. Lepora
    9th Annual Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL), Jul 2025
    Website
  7. Snap-it, tap-it, splat-it: Tactile-informed 3d gaussian splatting for reconstructing challenging surfaces
    Mauro Comi, Alessio Tonioni, Max Yang, Jonathan Tremblay, Valts Blukis, Yijiong Lin, Nathan F. Lepora, and Laurence Aitchison
    International Conference on 3D Vision, Jul 2025
    Website
  8. Anyrotate: Gravity-invariant in-hand object rotation with sim-to-real touch
    Max Yang, Chenghua Lu, Alex Church, Yijiong Lin, Chris Ford, Haoran Li, Efi Psomopoulou, David A.W. Barton, and Nathan F. Lepora
    8th Annual Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL), Jul 2024
    Website
  9. Touchsdf: A deepsdf approach for 3d shape reconstruction using vision-based tactile sensing
    Mauro Comi, Yijiong Lin, Alex Church, Alessio Tonioni, Laurence Aitchison, and Nathan F. Lepora
    IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), Jul 2024
    Website
  10. Coarse-to-fine Robotic Pushing using Touch, Vision and Proprioception
    Bowen Deng, Yijiong Lin, Max Yang, and Nathan F. Lepora
    IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), Jul 2025
    Paper
  11. Sim-to-real model-based and model-free deep reinforcement learning for tactile pushing
    Max Yang, Yijiong Lin, Alex Church, John Lloyd, Dandan Zhang, David A.W. Barton, and Nathan F. Lepora
    IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), Jul 2023
    Website
  12. Bi-Touch: Bimanual Tactile Manipulation With Sim-to-Real Deep Reinforcement Learning
    Yijiong Lin, Alex Church, Max Yang, Haoran Li, John Lloyd, Dandan Zhang, and Nathan F. Lepora
    IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), Jul 2023
    Paper Code Website Press
  13. Attention for Robot Touch: Tactile Saliency Prediction for Robust Sim-to-Real Tactile Control
    Yijiong Lin, Mauro Comi, Alex Church, Dandan Zhang, and Nathan F Lepora
    IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Jul 2023
    Paper Website
  14. Tactile Gym 2.0: Sim-to-real Deep Reinforcement Learning for Comparing Low-cost High-Resolution Robot Touch
    Yijiong Lin, John Lloyd, Alex Church, and Nathan F. Lepora
    IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), Aug 2022
    Paper Code Website
  15. DigiTac: A DIGIT-TacTip Hybrid Tactile Sensor for Comparing Low-Cost High-Resolution Robot Touch
    Nathan F. Lepora, Yijiong Lin, Ben Money-Coomes, and John Lloyd
    IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), Aug 2022
    Paper Code Website
  16. Probabilistic Discriminative Models address the Tactile Perceptual Aliasing Problem
    John Lloyd, Yijiong Lin, and Nathan F. Lepora
    In Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS), Jul 2021
    Paper
  17. Invariant Transform Experience Replay: Data Augmentation for Deep Reinforcement Learning
    Yijiong Lin, Jiancong Huang, Matthieu Zimmer, Yisheng Guan, Juan Rojas, and Paul Weng
    IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), Jul 2020
    Paper Code Website