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Alexander Kurdas

5 accepted papers

2023

Aim-Aware Collision Monitoring: Discriminating Between Expected and Unexpected Post-Impact Behaviors

RA-L 2023

To speed up and reduce power consumption per cycle in robotic manipulation, one option is to exploit intentional collisions with the surrounding environment and objects, an approach referred to as impact-aware manipulation. Within this context, this paper focuses on developing an online collision mo

Cited by 6SourceScholar
2022

Mean Reflected Mass: A Physically Interpretable Metric for Safety Assessment and Posture Optimization in Human-Robot Interaction

ICRA 2022poster

In physical human-robot interaction (pHRI), safety is a key requirement. As collisions between humans and robots can generally not be avoided, it must be ensured that the human is not harmed. The robot reflected mass, the contact geometry, and the relative velocity between human and robot are the pa…

Cited by 9SourceScholar
2022

Online Payload Identification for Tactile Robots Using the Momentum Observer

ICRA 2022poster

Knowledge of the robot's load inertial parameters is indispensable for accurate and safe operation, especially in collaborative robotics. However, an intuitive method for online inertial payload identification, usable while the robot is executing another online generated task, is still lacking. In t…

Cited by 19SourceScholar
2022

Real-time IMU-Based Learning: a Classification of Contact Materials

IROS 2022poster

In modern highly dynamic robot manipulation, collisions between a robot and objects may be intentionally executed to improve performance. To distinguish between these deliberate contacts and accidental collisions beyond the limit of state-of-the-art human-robot interactions, new sensing approaches a…

Cited by 7SourceScholar
2021

Towards a Reference Framework for Tactile Robot Performance and Safety Benchmarking

IROS 2021poster

Improving robot systems via newly-developed sensing devices, control algorithms, or state estimators in order to obtain safe and efficient human-robot interaction as well as tactile manipulation skills requires standardized performance measurement protocols for objective comparison. Common protocols…

Cited by 25SourceScholar