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Modern Magnetic Systems

Perceiving Systems

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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

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Haptic Intelligence Article Towards Semi-Automated Pleural Cavity Access for Pneumothorax in Austere Environments L’Orsa, R., Lama, S., Westwick, D., Sutherland, G., Kuchenbecker, K. J. Acta Astronautica, 212:48-53, November 2023 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Conference Paper Enhancing Surgical Team Collaboration and Situation Awareness through Multimodal Sensing Allemang–Trivalle, A. In Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction, :716-720, Extended abstract (5 pages) presented at the ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI) Doctoral Consortium, Paris, France, October 2023 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Ph.D. Thesis Gesture-Based Nonverbal Interaction for Exercise Robots Mohan, M. University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany, October 2023, Department of Computer Science (Published) BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Miscellaneous Seeking Causal, Invariant, Structures with Kernel Mean Embeddings in Haptic-Auditory Data from Tool-Surface Interaction Khojasteh, B., Shao, Y., Kuchenbecker, K. J. Workshop paper (4 pages) presented at the IROS Workshop on Causality for Robotics: Answering the Question of Why, Detroit, USA, October 2023 (Published) Manuscript BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Miscellaneous NearContact: Accurate Human Detection using Tomographic Proximity and Contact Sensing with Cross-Modal Attention Garrofé, G., Schoeffmann, C., Zangl, H., Kuchenbecker, K. J., Lee, H. Extended abstract (4 pages) presented at the International Workshop on Human-Friendly Robotics (HFR), Munich, Germany, September 2023 (Published) BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Software Workshop Autonomous Motion Conference Paper Augmenting Human Policies using Riemannian Metrics for Human-Robot Shared Control Oh, Y., Passy, J., Mainprice, J. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), :1612-1618, Busan, Korea, August 2023 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Perceiving Systems Article Learning to Estimate Palpation Forces in Robotic Surgery From Visual-Inertial Data Lee, Y., Mat Husin, H., Forte, M., Lee, S., Kuchenbecker, K. J. IEEE Transactions on Medical Robotics and Bionics, 5(3):496-506, August 2023 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Autonomous Learning Empirical Inference Article Minsight: A Fingertip-Sized Vision-Based Tactile Sensor for Robotic Manipulation Andrussow, I., Sun, H., Kuchenbecker, K. J., Martius, G. Advanced Intelligent Systems, 5(8):2300042, August 2023, Inside back cover (Published) DOI BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Miscellaneous The Role of Kinematics Estimation Accuracy in Learning with Wearable Haptics Rokhmanova, N., Pearl, O., Kuchenbecker, K. J., Halilaj, E. Abstract (1 page) presented at the American Society of Biomechanics Annual Meeting (ASB), Knoxville, USA, August 2023 (Published) BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Conference Paper Wear Your Heart on Your Sleeve: Users Prefer Robots with Emotional Reactions to Touch and Ambient Moods Burns, R. B., Ojo, F., Kuchenbecker, K. J. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), :1914-1921, Busan, South Korea, August 2023 (Published) DOI URL BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Miscellaneous AiroTouch: Naturalistic Vibrotactile Feedback for Telerobotic Construction Gong, Y., Javot, B., Lauer, A. P. R., Sawodny, O., Kuchenbecker, K. J. Hands-on demonstration presented at the IEEE World Haptics Conference (WHC), Delft, The Netherlands, July 2023 (Published) BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Miscellaneous Can Recording Expert Demonstrations with Tool Vibrations Facilitate Teaching of Manual Skills? Gourishetti, R., Javot, B., Kuchenbecker, K. J. Work-in-progress paper (1 page) presented at the IEEE World Haptics Conference (WHC), Delft, The Netherlands, July 2023 (Published) BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Miscellaneous Capturing Rich Auditory-Haptic Contact Data for Surface Recognition Khojasteh, B., Shao, Y., Kuchenbecker, K. J. Work-in-progress paper (1 page) presented at the IEEE World Haptics Conference (WHC), Delft, The Netherlands, July 2023 (Published) BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Miscellaneous Creating a Haptic Empathetic Robot Animal for Children with Autism Burns, R. B. Workshop paper (4 pages) presented at the RSS Pioneers Workshop, Daegu, South Korea, July 2023 (Published) URL BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Miscellaneous Improving Haptic Rendering Quality by Measuring and Compensating for Undesired Forces Fazlollahi, F., Taghizadeh, Z., Kuchenbecker, K. J. Work-in-progress paper (1 page) presented at the IEEE World Haptics Conference (WHC), Delft, The Netherlands, July 2023 (Published) BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Intelligent Control Systems Miscellaneous Multimodal Multi-User Surface Recognition with the Kernel Two-Sample Test: Code Khojasteh, B., Solowjow, F., Trimpe, S., Kuchenbecker, K. J. Code published as a companion to the journal article "Multimodal Multi-User Surface Recognition with the Kernel Two-Sample Test" in IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, July 2023 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Conference Paper Naturalistic Vibrotactile Feedback Could Facilitate Telerobotic Assembly on Construction Sites Gong, Y., Javot, B., Lauer, A. P. R., Sawodny, O., Kuchenbecker, K. J. In Proceedings of the IEEE World Haptics Conference (WHC), :169-175, Delft, The Netherlands, July 2023 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Robotics Miscellaneous Strap Tightness and Tissue Composition Both Affect the Vibration Created by a Wearable Device Rokhmanova, N., Faulkner, R., Martus, J., Fiene, J., Kuchenbecker, K. J. Work-in-progress paper (1 page) presented at the IEEE World Haptics Conference (WHC), Delft, The Netherlands, July 2023 (Published) BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Miscellaneous The Influence of Amplitude and Sharpness on the Perceived Intensity of Isoenergetic Ultrasonic Signals Gueorguiev, D., Rohou–Claquin, B., Kuchenbecker, K. J. Work-in-progress paper (1 page) presented at the IEEE World Haptics Conference (WHC), Delft, The Netherlands, July 2023 (Published) BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Miscellaneous Toward a Device for Reliable Evaluation of Vibrotactile Perception Ballardini, G., Kuchenbecker, K. J. Work-in-progress paper (1 page) presented at the IEEE World Haptics Conference (WHC), Delft, The Netherlands, July 2023 (Published) BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Miscellaneous Vibrotactile Playback for Teaching Manual Skills from Expert Recordings Gourishetti, R., Hughes, A. G., Javot, B., Kuchenbecker, K. J. Hands-on demonstration presented at the IEEE World Haptics Conference (WHC), Delft, The Netherlands, July 2023 (Published) BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Miscellaneous CAPT Motor: A Strong Direct-Drive Haptic Interface Javot, B., Nguyen, V. H., Ballardini, G., Kuchenbecker, K. J. Hands-on demonstration presented at the IEEE World Haptics Conference (WHC), Delft, The Netherlands, July 2023 (Published) BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Article In the Arms of a Robot: Designing Autonomous Hugging Robots with Intra-Hug Gestures Block, A. E., Seifi, H., Hilliges, O., Gassert, R., Kuchenbecker, K. J. ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction, 12(2):1-49, June 2023, Special Issue on Designing the Robot Body: Critical Perspectives on Affective Embodied Interaction (Published) DOI BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Miscellaneous Naturalistic Vibrotactile Feedback Could Facilitate Telerobotic Assembly on Construction Sites Gong, Y., Javot, B., Lauer, A. P. R., Sawodny, O., Kuchenbecker, K. J. Poster presented at the ICRA Workshop on Future of Construction: Robot Perception, Mapping, Navigation, Control in Unstructured and Cluttered Environments, London, UK, June 2023 (Published) BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Perceiving Systems Conference Paper Reconstructing Signing Avatars from Video Using Linguistic Priors Forte, M., Kulits, P., Huang, C. P., Choutas, V., Tzionas, D., Kuchenbecker, K. J., Black, M. J. In IEEE/CVF Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), :12791-12801, CVPR, June 2023 (Published) pdf arXiv project code DOI URL BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Miscellaneous 3D Reconstruction for Minimally Invasive Surgery: Lidar Versus Learning-Based Stereo Matching Caccianiga, G., Nubert, J., Hutter, M., Kuchenbecker., K. J. Workshop paper (2 pages) presented at the ICRA Workshop on Robot-Assisted Medical Imaging, London, UK, May 2023 (Published) BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Miscellaneous AiroTouch: Naturalistic Vibrotactile Feedback for Telerobotic Construction-Related Tasks Gong, Y., Tashiro, N., Javot, B., Lauer, A. P. R., Sawodny, O., Kuchenbecker, K. J. Extended abstract (1 page) presented at the ICRA Workshop on Communicating Robot Learning across Human-Robot Interaction, London, UK, May 2023 (Published) BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Miscellaneous Surface Perception through Haptic-Auditory Contact Data Khojasteh, B., Shao, Y., Kuchenbecker, K. J. Workshop paper (4 pages) presented at the ICRA Workshop on Embracing Contacts, London, UK, May 2023 (Published) URL BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Miscellaneous OCRA: An Optimization-Based Customizable Retargeting Algorithm for Teleoperation Mohan, M., Kuchenbecker, K. J. Workshop paper (3 pages) presented at the ICRA Workshop Toward Robot Avatars, London, UK, May 2023 (Published) URL BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Article Effects of Automated Skill Assessment on Robotic Surgery Training Brown, J. D., Kuchenbecker, K. J. The International Journal of Medical Robotics and Computer Assisted Surgery, 19(2):e2492, April 2023 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Article Haptify: A Measurement-Based Benchmarking System for Grounded Force-Feedback Devices Fazlollahi, F., Kuchenbecker, K. J. IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 39(2):1622-1636, April 2023 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Miscellaneous Wearable Biofeedback for Knee Joint Health Rokhmanova, N. Extended abstract (5 pages) presented at the ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) Doctoral Consortium, Hamburg, Germany, April 2023 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Miscellaneous A Lasting Impact: Using Second-Order Dynamics to Customize the Continuous Emotional Expression of a Social Robot Burns, R. B., Kuchenbecker, K. J. Workshop paper (5 pages) presented at the HRI Workshop on Lifelong Learning and Personalization in Long-Term Human-Robot Interaction (LEAP-HRI), Stockholm, Sweden, March 2023 (Published) URL BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Article The S-BAN: Insights into the Perception of Shape-Changing Haptic Interfaces via Virtual Pedestrian Navigation Spiers, A. J., Young, E., Kuchenbecker, K. J. ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, 30(1):1-31, March 2023 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Autonomous Learning Haptic Intelligence Empirical Inference Article Predicting the Force Map of an ERT-Based Tactile Sensor Using Simulation and Deep Networks Lee, H., Sun, H., Park, H., Serhat, G., Javot, B., Martius, G., Kuchenbecker, K. J. IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, 20(1):425-439, January 2023 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Article The Utility of Synthetic Reflexes and Haptic Feedback for Upper-Limb Prostheses in a Dexterous Task Without Direct Vision Thomas, N., Fazlollahi, F., Kuchenbecker, K. J., Brown, J. D. IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, 31:169-179, January 2023 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Article Generating Clear Vibrotactile Cues with a Magnet Embedded in a Soft Finger Sheath Gertler, I., Serhat, G., Kuchenbecker, K. J. Soft Robotics, 10(3):624-635, June 2023 (Published) DOI BibTeX