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Emperical Interference

Haptic Intelligence

Modern Magnetic Systems

Perceiving Systems

Physical Intelligence

Robotic Materials

Social Foundations of Computation


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Autonomous Vision

Autonomous Learning

Bioinspired Autonomous Miniature Robots

Dynamic Locomotion

Embodied Vision

Human Aspects of Machine Learning

Intelligent Control Systems

Learning and Dynamical Systems

Locomotion in Biorobotic and Somatic Systems

Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems

Movement Generation and Control

Neural Capture and Synthesis

Physics for Inference and Optimization

Organizational Leadership and Diversity

Probabilistic Learning Group


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Robot Learning

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2022

Autonomous Learning

Robotics

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Haptic Intelligence Autonomous Learning Empirical Inference Miscellaneous A Sequential Group VAE for Robot Learning of Haptic Representations Richardson, B. A., Kuchenbecker, K. J., Martius, G. :1-11, Workshop paper (8 pages) presented at the CoRL Workshop on Aligning Robot Representations with Humans, Auckland, New Zealand, December 2022 (Published) URL BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Ph.D. Thesis Multi-Timescale Representation Learning of Human and Robot Haptic Interactions Richardson, B. University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany, December 2022, Faculty of Computer Science, Electrical Engineering and Information Technology () URL BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Miscellaneous Semi-Automated Robotic Pleural Cavity Access in Space L’Orsa, R., de Lotbiniere-Bassett, M., Zareinia, K., Lama, S., Westwick, D., Sutherland, G., Kuchenbecker, K. J. Poster presented at the Canadian Space Health Research Symposium (CSHRS), Alberta, Canada, November 2022 (Published) BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Autonomous Learning Empirical Inference Miscellaneous A Soft Vision-Based Tactile Sensor for Robotic Fingertip Manipulation Andrussow, I., Sun, H., Kuchenbecker, K. J., Martius, G. Workshop paper (1 page) presented at the IROS Workshop on Large-Scale Robotic Skin: Perception, Interaction and Control, Kyoto, Japan, October 2022 (Published) URL BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Miscellaneous Do-It-Yourself Whole-Body Social-Touch Perception for a NAO Robot Burns, R. B., Rosenthal, R., Garg, K., Kuchenbecker, K. J. Workshop paper (1 page) presented at the IROS Workshop on Large-Scale Robotic Skin: Perception, Interaction and Control, Kyoto, Japan, October 2022 (Published) Poster URL BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Article Learning to Feel Textures: Predicting Perceptual Similarities from Unconstrained Finger-Surface Interactions Richardson, B. A., Vardar, Y., Wallraven, C., Kuchenbecker, K. J. IEEE Transactions on Haptics, 15(4):705-717, October 2022, Benjamin A. Richardson and Yasemin Vardar contributed equally to this publication (Published) DOI BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Robotics Miscellaneous Sensor Patterns Dataset for Endowing a NAO Robot with Practical Social-Touch Perception Burns, R. B., Lee, H., Seifi, H., Faulkner, R., Kuchenbecker, K. J. Dataset published as a companion to the journal article "Endowing a NAO Robot with Practical Social-Touch Perception" in Frontiers in Robotics and AI, October 2022 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Ph.D. Thesis Understanding the Influence of Moisture on Fingerpad-Surface Interactions Nam, S. University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany, October 2022, Department of Computer Science (Published) DOI BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Conference Paper Towards Semi-Automated Pleural Cavity Access for Pneumothorax in Austere Environments L’Orsa, R., Lama, S., Westwick, D., Sutherland, G., Kuchenbecker, K. J. In Proceedings of the International Astronautical Congress (IAC), :1-7, Paris, France, September 2022 (Published) BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Miscellaneous Predicting Knee Adduction Moment Response to Gait Retraining Rokhmanova, N., Kuchenbecker, K. J., Shull, P. B., Ferber, R., Halilaj, E. Extended abstract presented at North American Congress of Biomechanics (NACOB), Ottawa, Canada, August 2022 (Published) BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Conference Paper Wrist-Squeezing Force Feedback Improves Accuracy and Speed in Robotic Surgery Training Machaca, S., Cao, E., Chi, A., Adrales, G., Kuchenbecker, K. J., Brown, J. D. In Proceedings of the IEEE RAS/EMBS International Conference for Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics (BioRob), Seoul, Korea, August 2022 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Article Contact Evolution of Dry and Hydrated Fingertips at Initial Touch Serhat, G., Vardar, Y., Kuchenbecker, K. J. PLOS ONE, 17(7):e0269722, July 2022, Gokhan Serhat and Yasemin Vardar contributed equally to this publication (Published) DOI BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Article Perceptual Space of Algorithms for Three-to-One Dimensional Reduction of Realistic Vibrations Lee, H., Tombak, G. I., Park, G., Kuchenbecker, K. J. IEEE Transactions on Haptics, 15(3):521-534, July 2022 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Miscellaneous A Sensorized Needle-Insertion Device for Characterizing Percutaneous Thoracic Tool-Tissue Interactions L’Orsa, R., Zareinia, K., Westwick, D., Sutherland, G., Kuchenbecker, K. J. Short paper (2 pages) presented at the Hamlyn Symposium on Medical Robotics (HSMR), London, UK, June 2022 (Published) BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Miscellaneous Dense 3D Reconstruction Through Lidar: A New Perspective on Computer-Integrated Surgery Caccianiga, G., Kuchenbecker, K. J. Short paper (2 pages) presented at the Hamlyn Symposium on Medical Robotics (HSMR), London, UK, June 2022 (Published) BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Miscellaneous Comparing Two Grounded Force-Feedback Haptic Devices Fazlollahi, F., Kuchenbecker, K. J. Hands-on demonstration presented at EuroHaptics, Hamburg, Germany, May 2022 (Published) BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Miscellaneous Finger Contact during Pressing and Sliding on a Glass Plate Nam, S., Gueorguiev, D., Kuchenbecker, K. J. Poster presented at the EuroHaptics Workshop on Skin Mechanics and its Role in Manipulation and Perception, Hamburg, Germany, May 2022 (Published) BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Miscellaneous HuggieBot: A Human-Sized Haptic Interface Block, A. E., Seifi, H., Christen, S., Javot, B., Kuchenbecker, K. J. Hands-on demonstration presented at EuroHaptics, Hamburg, Germany, May 2022, Award for best hands-on demonstration (Published) BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Conference Paper Larger Skin-Surface Contact Through a Fingertip Wearable Improves Roughness Perception Gueorguiev, D., Javot, B., Spiers, A., Kuchenbecker, K. J. In Haptics: Science, Technology, Applications, :171-179, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 13235, (Editors: Seifi, Hasti and Kappers, Astrid M. L. and Schneider, Oliver and Drewing, Knut and Pacchierotti, Claudio and Abbasimoshaei, Alireza and Huisman, Gijs and Kern, Thorsten A.), Springer, Hamburg, Germany, 13th International Conference on Human Haptic Sensing and Touch Enabled Computer Applications (EuroHaptics 2022), May 2022 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Article Normal and Tangential Forces Combine to Convey Contact Pressure During Dynamic Tactile Stimulation Gueorguiev, D., Lambert, J., Thonnard, J., Kuchenbecker, K. J. Scientific Reports, 12:8215, May 2022 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Article Predicting Knee Adduction Moment Response to Gait Retraining with Minimal Clinical Data Rokhmanova, N., Kuchenbecker, K. J., Shull, P. B., Ferber, R., Halilaj, E. PLOS Computational Biology, 18(5):e1009500, May 2022 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Article Design of Interactive Augmented Reality Functions for Robotic Surgery and Evaluation in Dry-Lab Lymphadenectomy Forte, M., Gourishetti, R., Javot, B., Engler, T., Gomez, E. D., Kuchenbecker, K. J. The International Journal of Medical Robotics and Computer Assisted Surgery, 18(2):e2351, April 2022 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Robotics Article Endowing a NAO Robot with Practical Social-Touch Perception Burns, R. B., Lee, H., Seifi, H., Faulkner, R., Kuchenbecker, K. J. Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 9:840335, April 2022 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Robotics Miscellaneous User Study Dataset for Endowing a NAO Robot with Practical Social-Touch Perception Burns, R. B., Lee, H., Seifi, H., Faulkner, R., Kuchenbecker, K. J. Dataset published as a companion to the journal article "Endowing a NAO Robot with Practical Social-Touch Perception" in Frontiers in Robotics and AI, April 2022 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Conference Paper Robot, Pass Me the Tool: Handle Visibility Facilitates Task-Oriented Handovers Ortenzi, V., Filipovica, M., Abdlkarim, D., Pardi, T., Takahashi, C., Wing, A. M., Di Luca, M., Kuchenbecker, K. J. In Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), :256-264, Sapporo, Japan, March 2022, Valerio Ortenzi and Maija Filipovica contributed equally to this publication (Published) DOI BibTeX

Autonomous Learning Haptic Intelligence Article A Soft Thumb-Sized Vision-Based Sensor with Accurate All-Round Force Perception Sun, H., Kuchenbecker, K. J., Martius, G. Nature Machine Intelligence, 4(2):135-145, February 2022 (Published) Paper DOI URL BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Article Adaptive Optimal Measurement Algorithm for ERT-Based Large-Area Tactile Sensors Park, K., Lee, H., Kuchenbecker, K. J., Kim, J. IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, 27(1):304-314, February 2022 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Article Evaluation of Vibrotactile Output from a Rotating Motor Actuator Gourishetti, R., Kuchenbecker, K. J. IEEE Transactions on Haptics, 15(1):39-44, January 2022, Presented at the IEEE Haptics Symposium (Published) DOI BibTeX