Publications

Haptic Intelligence Embodied Vision Robotics Conference Paper Visuo-Tactile Object Pose Estimation for a Multi-Finger Robot Hand with Low-Resolution In-Hand Tactile Sensing Mack, L., Grüninger, F., Richardson, B. A., Lendway, R., Kuchenbecker, K. J., Stueckler, J. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Atlanta, USA, May 2025, Accepted (Accepted) BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Robotics Miscellaneous Bio-Inspired Gradient (BIG) Whiskers: Stiffness-Shifting Structures Provide Dynamic Functional Benefits for Contact Sensing Schulz, A. K., Andrussow, I., Farsijani, F., Faulkner, R., Kuchenbecker, K. J. Extended abstract (3 pages) presented at the IEEE-RAS International Conference on Soft Robotics (RoboSoft), Lausanne, Switzerland, April 2025, Accepted (Accepted) BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Article Comparing Puncture-Detection Approaches for Manual Needle Insertions Through the Parietal Pleura L’Orsa, R., Zareinia, K., Sutherland, G. R., Westwick, D., Kuchenbecker, K. J. IEEE Transactions on Medical Robotics and Bionics, April 2025 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Article Enhancing Needle Puncture Detection Using High-Pass Filtering and Diffuse Reflectance L’Orsa, R., Bisht, A., Yu, L., Murari, K., Sutherland, G., Westwick, D., Kuchenbecker, K. J. Frontiers in Robotics and AI, March 2025, Accepted (Accepted) BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Miscellaneous Error-State Extended Kalman Filter Sensor Fusion for Tracking Collaborating Humans Hudhud Mughrabi, M., Allemang–Trivalle, A., Kuchenbecker, K. J. Extended abstract (3 pages) presented at the German Robotics Conference (GRC), Nuremberg, Germany, March 2025 (Published) BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Miscellaneous Haptify: A Measurement System for Benchmarking Grounded Force-Feedback Devices Fazlollahi, F., Kuchenbecker, K. J. Extended abstract (3 pages) presented at the German Robotics Conference (GRC), Nuremberg, Germany , March 2025 (Published) BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Miscellaneous My Robot, My Motion: Expressive Real-Time Teleoperation Mohan, M., Kuchenbecker, K. J. Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, Hands-on demonstration presented at the IEEE/ACM International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), Melbourne, Australia, March 2025 (Published) BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Robotic Materials Article Wearable Electrohydraulic Actuation for Salient Full-Fingertip Haptic Feedback Shao, Y., Shagan Shomron, A., Javot, B., Keplinger, C., Kuchenbecker, K. J. Advanced Materials Technologies, (2401525):1-12, January 2025, Yitian Shao and Alona Shagan Shomron contributed equally to this publication (Published) DOI URL BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Miscellaneous A Method for Single-Input Sequencing of Hyperelastic Balloons Gertler, I., Kuchenbecker, K. J. Extended abstract (3 pages) presented at the IEEE-RAS International Conference on Soft Robotics (RoboSoft), Lausanne, Switzerland, April 2025, Accepted (Accepted) BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Ph.D. Thesis Capturing and Recognizing Multimodal Surface Interactions as Embedded High-Dimensional Distributions Khojasteh, B. University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany, December 2024, Faculty of Engineering Design, Production Engineering and Automotive Engineering (Published) BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Robotic Materials Article Cutaneous Electrohydraulic (CUTE) Wearable Devices for Pleasant Broad-Bandwidth Haptic Cues Sanchez-Tamayo, N., Yoder, Z., Rothemund, P., Ballardini, G., Keplinger, C., Kuchenbecker, K. J. Advanced Science, 11(48):1-14, December 2024, This article was selected for the inside front cover. https://doi.org/10.1002/advs.202470295 (Published) Video DOI URL BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Master Thesis Diffusion Models for Fast and Accurate Approximate Model Predictive Control Marquez Julbe, P. Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, the Netherlands, December 2024, Master of Science in Systems and Control (Published) BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Ph.D. Thesis Precision Haptics in Gait Retraining for Knee Osteoarthritis Rokhmanova, N. Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA, December 2024, Department of Mechanical Engineering (Published) BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Article Simulation Training with Haptic Feedback of Instrument Vibrations Reduces Resident Workload During Live Robot-Assisted Sleeve Gastrectomy Gomez, E. D., Mat Husin, H., Dumon, K. R., Williams, N. N., Kuchenbecker, K. J. Surgical Endoscopy, December 2024 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Article A Sleeve Alters the Pressure-Stretch Curve of a Hyperelastic Balloon to Enable Pre-Programmed Sequencing Gertler, I., Kuchenbecker, K. J. Advanced Materials Technologies, :1-11, November 2024 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Ph.D. Thesis Data-Driven Needle Puncture Detection for the Delivery of Urgent Medical Care in Space L’Orsa, R. University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada, November 2024, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (Published) BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Autonomous Learning Empirical Inference Miscellaneous Demonstration: Minsight - A Soft Vision-Based Tactile Sensor for Robotic Fingertips Andrussow, I., Sun, H., Martius, G., Kuchenbecker, K. J. Hands-on demonstration presented at the Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL), Munich, Germany, November 2024 (Published) BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Miscellaneous Demonstration: OCRA - A Kinematic Retargeting Algorithm for Expressive Whole-Arm Teleoperation Mohan, M., Kuchenbecker, K. J. Hands-on demonstration presented at the Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL), Munich, Germany, November 2024 (Published) BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Perceiving Systems Article Wrist-to-Wrist Bioimpedance Can Reliably Detect Discrete Self-Touch Forte, M., Vardar, Y., Javot, B., Kuchenbecker, K. J. IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, 74:1-11, November 2024 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Robotic Materials Miscellaneous Active Haptic Feedback for a Virtual Wrist-Anchored User Interface Bartels, J. U., Sanchez-Tamayo, N., Sedlmair, M., Kuchenbecker, K. J. Adjunct Proceedings of the Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST), Hands-on demonstration presented at the Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST), Pittsburgh, USA, October 2024 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Robotics Article Building Instructions You Can Feel: Edge-Changing Haptic Devices for Digitally Guided Construction Tashiro, N., Faulkner, R., Melnyk, S., Rosales Rodriguez, T., Javot, B., Tahouni, Y., Cheng, T., Wood, D., Menges, A., Kuchenbecker, K. J. ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, October 2024 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Empirical Inference Optics and Sensing Laboratory Software Workshop Article Fiber-Optic Shape Sensing Using Neural Networks Operating on Multispecklegrams Cao, C. G. L., Javot, B., Bhattarai, S., Bierig, K., Oreshnikov, I., Volchkov, V. V. IEEE Sensors Journal, 24(17):27532-27540, September 2024 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Miscellaneous Adapting a High-Fidelity Simulation of Human Skin for Comparative Touch Sensing Schulz, A., Serhat, G., Kuchenbecker, K. J. Extended abstract (1 page) presented at the American Society of Biomechanics Annual Meeting (ASB), Madison, USA, August 2024 (Published) BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Ph.D. Thesis Engineering and Evaluating Naturalistic Vibrotactile Feedback for Telerobotic Assembly Gong, Y. University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany, August 2024, Faculty of Engineering Design, Production Engineering and Automotive Engineering (Published) BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Article Fingertip Dynamic Response Simulated Across Excitation Points and Frequencies Serhat, G., Kuchenbecker, K. J. Biomechanics and Modeling in Mechanobiology, 23(4):1369-1376, August 2024 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Robotics Miscellaneous Modeling Shank Tissue Properties and Quantifying Body Composition with a Wearable Actuator-Accelerometer Set Rokhmanova, N., Martus, J., Faulkner, R., Fiene, J., Kuchenbecker, K. J. Extended abstract (1 page) presented at the American Society of Biomechanics Annual Meeting (ASB), Madison, USA, August 2024 (Published) BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Master Thesis Estimating Contact Forces Across Soft Capacitive Tactile Sensors Using Machine Learning Tiwari, A. :1-99, Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany, July 2024, M.Sc. in Embedded Systems (Published) BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Intelligent Control Systems Article Multimodal Multi-User Surface Recognition with the Kernel Two-Sample Test Khojasteh, B., Solowjow, F., Trimpe, S., Kuchenbecker, K. J. IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, 21(3):4432-4447, July 2024 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Conference Paper Reflectance Outperforms Force and Position in Model-Free Needle Puncture Detection L’Orsa, R., Bisht, A., Yu, L., Murari, K., Westwick, D. T., Sutherland, G. R., Kuchenbecker, K. J. In Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), Orlando, USA, July 2024 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Bachelor Thesis Kalman Filter Approach to Sensor Fusion of Ultra-Wideband Positioning and IMU Readings for Enhanced Indoor Tracking of Collaborating Humans Hudhud Mughrabi, M. Kadir Has University, Istanbul, Turkey, June 2024, Bachelor of Science (BSc) in Mechatronics Engineering (Published) BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Article AiroTouch: Enhancing Telerobotic Assembly through Naturalistic Haptic Feedback of Tool Vibrations Gong, Y., Mat Husin, H., Erol, E., Ortenzi, V., Kuchenbecker, K. J. Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 11(1355205):1-15, May 2024 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Article Closing the Loop in Minimally Supervised Human-Robot Interaction: Formative and Summative Feedback Mohan, M., Nunez, C. M., Kuchenbecker, K. J. Scientific Reports, 14(10564):1-18, May 2024 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Robotics Miscellaneous GaitGuide: A Wearable Device for Vibrotactile Motion Guidance Rokhmanova, N., Martus, J., Faulkner, R., Fiene, J., Kuchenbecker, K. J. Workshop paper (3 pages) presented at the ICRA Workshop on Advancing Wearable Devices and Applications Through Novel Design, Sensing, Actuation, and AI, Yokohama, Japan, May 2024 (Published) URL BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Robotic Materials Miscellaneous Three-Dimensional Surface Reconstruction of a Soft System via Distributed Magnetic Sensing Sundaram, V. H., Smith, L., Turin, Z., Rentschler, M. E., Gonzalez Welker, C. Workshop paper (3 pages) presented at the ICRA Workshop on Advancing Wearable Devices and Applications Through Novel Design, Sensing, Actuation, and AI, Yokohama, Japan, May 2024 (Published) BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Robotic Materials Miscellaneous Cutaneous Electrohydraulic (CUTE) Wearable Devices for Multimodal Haptic Feedback Sanchez-Tamayo, N., Yoder, Z., Ballardini, G., Rothemund, P., Keplinger, C., Kuchenbecker, K. J. Extended abstract (1 page) presented at the IEEE RoboSoft Workshop on Multimodal Soft Robots for Multifunctional Manipulation, Locomotion, and Human-Machine Interaction, San Diego, USA, April 2024 (Published) BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Robotic Materials Miscellaneous Cutaneous Electrohydraulic Wearable Devices for Expressive and Salient Haptic Feedback Sanchez-Tamayo, N., Yoder, Z., Ballardini, G., Rothemund, P., Keplinger, C., Kuchenbecker, K. J. Hands-on demonstration presented at the IEEE Haptics Symposium, Long Beach, USA, April 2024 (Published) BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Robotic Materials Miscellaneous Demonstration: Cutaneous Electrohydraulic (CUTE) Wearable Devices for Expressive and Salient Haptic Feedback Sanchez-Tamayo, N., Yoder, Z., Ballardini, G., Rothemund, P., Keplinger, C., Kuchenbecker, K. J. Hands-on demonstration presented at the IEEE RoboSoft Conference, San Diego, USA, April 2024 (Published) BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Miscellaneous Quantifying Haptic Quality: External Measurements Match Expert Assessments of Stiffness Rendering Across Devices Fazlollahi, F., Seifi, H., Ballardini, G., Taghizadeh, Z., Schulz, A., MacLean, K. E., Kuchenbecker, K. J. Work-in-progress paper (2 pages) presented at the IEEE Haptics Symposium, Long Beach, USA, April 2024 (Published) BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Miscellaneous CAPT Motor: A Strong Direct-Drive Rotary Haptic Interface Javot, B., Nguyen, V. H., Ballardini, G., Kuchenbecker, K. J. Hands-on demonstration presented at the IEEE Haptics Symposium, Long Beach, USA, April 2024 (Published) URL BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Conference Paper Expert Perception of Teleoperated Social Exercise Robots Mohan, M., Mat Husin, H., Kuchenbecker, K. J. In Companion of the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), :769-773, Boulder, USA, March 2024, Late-Breaking Report (LBR) (5 pages) presented at the IEEE/ACM International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) (Published) DOI BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Ph.D. Thesis Creating a Haptic Empathetic Robot Animal That Feels Touch and Emotion Burns, R. B. University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany, February 2024, Department of Computer Science (Published) BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Article IMU-Based Kinematics Estimation Accuracy Affects Gait Retraining Using Vibrotactile Cues Rokhmanova, N., Pearl, O., Kuchenbecker, K. J., Halilaj, E. IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, 32:1005-1012, February 2024 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Miscellaneous Adapting a High-Fidelity Simulation of Human Skin for Comparative Touch Sensing in the Elephant Trunk Schulz, A., Serhat, G., Kuchenbecker, K. J. Abstract presented at the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology Annual Meeting (SICB), Seattle, USA, January 2024 (Published) BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Article How Should Robots Exercise with People? Robot-Mediated Exergames Win with Music, Social Analogues, and Gameplay Clarity Fitter, N. T., Mohan, M., Preston, R. C., Johnson, M. J., Kuchenbecker, K. J. Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 10(1155837):1-18, January 2024 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Article Robust Surface Recognition With the Maximum Mean Discrepancy: Degrading Haptic-Auditory Signals Through Bandwidth and Noise Khojasteh, B., Shao, Y., Kuchenbecker, K. J. IEEE Transactions on Haptics, 17(1):58-65, January 2024, Presented at the IEEE Haptics Symposium (Published) DOI BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Materials Miscellaneous Whiskers That Don’t Whisk: Unique Structure From the Absence of Actuation in Elephant Whiskers Schulz, A., Kaufmann, L., Brecht, M., Richter, G., Kuchenbecker, K. J. Abstract presented at the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology Annual Meeting (SICB), Seattle, USA, January 2024 (Published) BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Miscellaneous MPI-10: Haptic-Auditory Measurements from Tool-Surface Interactions Khojasteh, B., Shao, Y., Kuchenbecker, K. J. Dataset published as a companion to the journal article "Robust Surface Recognition with the Maximum Mean Discrepancy: Degrading Haptic-Auditory Signals through Bandwidth and Noise" in IEEE Transactions on Haptics, January 2024 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Miscellaneous Discrete Fourier Transform Three-to-One (DFT321): Code Landin, N., Romano, J. M., McMahan, W., Kuchenbecker, K. J. MATLAB code of discrete fourier transform three-to-one (DFT321), 2024 (Published) Code BibTeX

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

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