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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 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

Haptic Intelligence Article Virtual Reality Treatment Displaying the Missing Leg Improves Phantom Limb Pain: A Small Clinical Trial Ambron, E., Buxbaum, L. J., Miller, A., Stoll, H., Kuchenbecker, K. J., Coslett, H. B. Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair, 35(12):1100-1111, December 2021 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Article A Brake-Based Overground Gait Rehabilitation Device for Altering Propulsion Impulse Symmetry Hu, S., Fjeld, K., Vasudevan, E. V., Kuchenbecker, K. J. Sensors, 21(19), October 2021 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Article Robotics for Occupational Therapy: Learning Upper-Limb Exercises From Demonstrations Hu, S., Mendonca, R., Johnson, M. J., Kuchenbecker, K. J. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 6(4):7781-7788, October 2021 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Conference Paper Sensorimotor-Inspired Tactile Feedback and Control Improve Consistency of Prosthesis Manipulation in the Absence of Direct Vision Thomas, N., Fazlollahi, F., Brown, J. D., Kuchenbecker, K. J. In Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), :6174-6181, Prague, Czech Republic, September 2021 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Miscellaneous Teaching Safe Social Touch Interactions Using a Robot Koala Burns, R. B. Workshop paper (1 page) presented at the IROS Workshop on Proximity Perception in Robotics: Increasing Safety for Human-Robot Interaction Using Tactile and Proximity Perception, Prague, Czech Republic, September 2021 (Published) URL BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Ph.D. Thesis HuggieBot: An Interactive Hugging Robot With Visual and Haptic Perception Block, A. E. ETH Zürich, Zürich, August 2021, Department of Computer Science (Published) DOI BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Miscellaneous How Do Expert Hapticians Evaluate Grounded Force-Feedback Devices? Fazlollahi, F., Seifi, H., MacLean, K., Kuchenbecker, K. J. Work-in-progress paper (1 page) presented at the IEEE World Haptics Conference (WHC), July 2021 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Conference Paper Optimal Grasp Selection, and Control for Stabilising a Grasped Object, with Respect to Slippage and External Forces Pardi, T., E., A. G., Ortenzi, V., Stolkin, R. In Proceedings of the IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids 2020), :429-436, Munich, Germany, July 2021 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Article Piezoresistive Textile Layer and Distributed Electrode Structure for Soft Whole-Body Tactile Skin Lee, H., Park, K., Kim, J., Kuchenbecker, K. J. Smart Materials and Structures, 30(8):085036, July 2021, Hyosang Lee and Kyungseo Park contributed equally to this publication (Published) DOI BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Conference Paper PrendoSim: Proxy-Hand-Based Robot Grasp Generator Abdlkarim, D., Ortenzi, V., Pardi, T., Filipovica, M., Wing, A. M., Kuchenbecker, K. J., Di Luca, M. In ICINCO 2021: Proceedings of the International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics, :60-68, (Editors: Gusikhin, Oleg and Nijmeijer, Henk and Madani, Kurosh), SciTePress, Sétubal, 18th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics (ICINCO 2021), July 2021 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Miscellaneous Vibrotactile Playback for Teaching Sensorimotor Skills in Medical Procedures Gourishetti, R., Kuchenbecker, K. J. Hands-on demonstration presented at the IEEE World Haptics Conference (WHC), July 2021 (Published) BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Article Free and Forced Vibration Modes of the Human Fingertip Serhat, G., Kuchenbecker, K. J. Applied Sciences, 11(12):5709, June 2021 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Conference Paper Ungrounded Vari-Dimensional Tactile Fingertip Feedback for Virtual Object Interaction Young, E. M., Kuchenbecker, K. J. In CHI ’21: Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, :217, ACM, New York, NY, Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2021), May 2021 (Published) DOI URL BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Article Optimizing a Viscoelastic Finite Element Model to Represent the Dry, Natural, and Moist Human Finger Pressing on Glass Nam, S., Kuchenbecker, K. J. IEEE Transactions on Haptics, 14(2):303-309, IEEE, May 2021, Presented at the IEEE World Haptics Conference (WHC) (Published) DOI BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Conference Paper Robot Interaction Studio: A Platform for Unsupervised HRI Mohan, M., Nunez, C. M., Kuchenbecker, K. J. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), :3330-3336, Xian, China, May 2021 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Master Thesis Robotic Surgery Training in AR: Multimodal Record and Replay Krauthausen, F. :1-147, University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, May 2021, Study Program in Software Engineering () BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Article Multi-Sensory Guidance and Feedback for Simulation-Based Training in Robot Assisted Surgery: A Preliminary Comparison of Visual, Haptic, and Visuo-Haptic Caccianiga, G., Mariani, A., Galli de Paratesi, C., Menciassi, A., De Momi, E. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 6(2):3801-3808, April 2021 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Miscellaneous A Haptic Empathetic Robot Animal for Children with Autism Burns, R. B., Seifi, H., Lee, H., Kuchenbecker, K. J. :583-585, Workshop paper (3 pages) presented at the HRI Pioneers Workshop, Boulder, CO, USA, March 2021 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Conference Paper The Six Hug Commandments: Design and Evaluation of a Human-Sized Hugging Robot with Visual and Haptic Perception Block, A. E., Christen, S., Gassert, R., Hilliges, O., Kuchenbecker, K. J. In HRI ’21: Proceedings of the 2021 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, :380-388, ACM, New York, NY, USA, ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI 2021), March 2021 (Published) Block21-HRI-Commandments.pdf DOI BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Miscellaneous Bimanual Wrist-Squeezing Haptic Feedback Changes Speed-Force Tradeoff in Robotic Surgery Training Cao, E., Machaca, S., Bernard, T., Chi, A., Wolfinger, B., Patterson, Z., Adrales, G. L., Kuchenbecker, K. J. Short paper presented at the ACS Surgeons and Engineers: A Dialogue on Surgical Simulation meeting, March 2021 (Published) BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Miscellaneous Evaluation of a Teleoperated Robotic Exercise Coach Mohan, M., Mat Husin, H., Kuchenbecker, K. J. Workshop paper (4 pages) presented at the HRI Workshop on Workshop YOUR study design! Participatory critique and refinement of participants’ studies, Virtual, March 2021 (Published) BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Miscellaneous Evaluation of a Touch-Perceiving, Responsive Robot Koala for Children with Autism Burns, R. B., Seifi, H., Kuchenbecker, K. J. Workshop paper (4 pages) presented at the HRI Workshop on Workshop YOUR study design! Participatory critique and refinement of participants’ studies, Virtual, March 2021 (Published) BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Article Finger Motion and Contact by a Second Finger Influence the Tactile Perception of Electrovibration Vardar, Y., Kuchenbecker, K. J. Journal of the Royal Society Interface, 18(176):20200783, March 2021 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Miscellaneous Love, Actually? Robot Hugs, Oxytocin, and Cortisol Block, A. E., Kuchenbecker, S. Y., Lambercy, O., Gassert, R., Kuchenbecker, K. J. Workshop paper (5 pages) presented at the HRI Workshop on Workshop YOUR study design! Participatory critique and refinement of participants’ studies, March 2021 (Published) BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Article Getting in Touch with Children with Autism: Specialist Guidelines for a Touch-Perceiving Robot Burns, R. B., Seifi, H., Lee, H., Kuchenbecker, K. J. Paladyn. Journal of Behavioral Robotics, 12(1):115-135, January 2021 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Autonomous Learning Haptic Intelligence Patent Method for force inference, method for training a feed-forward neural network, force inference module, and sensor arrangement Sun, H., Martius, G., Kuchenbecker, K. J. (PCT/EP2021/050231), Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Max Planck Ring 4, January 2021 () BibTeX

Autonomous Learning Haptic Intelligence Patent Sensor Arrangement for Sensing Forces and Methods for Fabricating a Sensor Arrangement and Parts Thereof Sun, H., Martius, G., Kuchenbecker, K. J. (PCT/EP2021/050230), Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Max Planck Ring 4, January 2021 () BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Ph.D. Thesis Delivering Expressive and Personalized Fingertip Tactile Cues Young, E. M. University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, December 2020, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics () BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Conference Paper Synchronicity Trumps Mischief in Rhythmic Human-Robot Social-Physical Interaction Fitter, N. T., Kuchenbecker, K. J. In Robotics Research, 10:269-284, Springer Proceedings in Advanced Robotics, (Editors: Amato, Nancy M. and Hager, Greg and Thomas, Shawna and Torres-Torriti, Miguel), Springer, Cham, 18th International Symposium on Robotics Research (ISRR 2017), 2020 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Autonomous Learning Haptic Intelligence Robotics Patent Method for Force Inference of a Sensor Arrangement, Methods for Training Networks, Force Inference Module and Sensor Arrangement Sun, H., Martius, G., Lee, H., Spiers, A., Fiene, J. (PCT/EP2020/083261), Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Max Planck Ring 4, November 2020 () BibTeX

Autonomous Learning Haptic Intelligence Robotics Patent Sensor Arrangement for Sensing Forces and Method for Farbricating a Sensor Arrangement Spiers, A., Sun, H., Lee, H., Martius, G., Fiene, J., Seo, W. H. (PCT/EP2020/083260), November 2020 () BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Miscellaneous Utilizing Interviews and Thematic Analysis to Uncover Specifications for a Companion Robot Burns, R. B., Seifi, H., Lee, H., Kuchenbecker, K. J. Workshop paper (2 pages) presented at the ICSR Workshop on Enriching HRI Research with Qualitative Methods, Virtual, November 2020 (Published) URL BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Miscellaneous Sweat Softens the Outermost Layer of the Human Finger Pad: Evidence from Simulations and Experiments Nam, S., Kuchenbecker, K. J. Work-in-progress poster presented at EuroHaptics, Leiden, The Netherlands, September 2020 (Published) BibTeX