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J. Micah Prendergast

4 accepted papers

2026

Fitts' List Revisited: An Empirical Study on Function Allocation in a Two-Agent Physical Human-Robot Collaborative Position/Force Task

ICRA 2026poster

In this letter, we investigate whether classical function allocation--the principle of assigning tasks to either a human or a machine--holds for physical Human-Robot Collaboration, which is important for providing insights for Industry 5.0 to guide how to best augment rather than replace workers. Th…

2024

Creating Discomfort Maps via Hand-held Human Feedback Interface for Robotic Shoulder Physiotherapy

IROS 2024poster

In this work, we propose a method of capturing the patient’s discomfort during robotic shoulder physiotherapy, creating "discomfort maps". These maps depict the personalized distribution of discomfort that each patient perceived across their shoulder range of motion, facilitating both robotic device…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2020

Comparing Visual Odometry Systems in Actively Deforming Simulated Colon Environments

IROS 2020poster

This paper presents a new open-source dataset with ground truth position in a simulated colon environment to promote development of real-time feedback systems for physicians performing colonoscopies. Four systems (DSO, LSD-SLAM, SfMLearner, ORB-SLAM2) are tested on this dataset and their failures ar…

Cited by 10SourceScholar
2018

Autonomous Localization, Navigation and Haustral Fold Detection for Robotic Endoscopy

IROS 2018poster

Capsule endoscopes have gained popularity over the last decade as minimally invasive devices for diagnosing gastrointestinal abnormalities such as colorectal cancer. While this technology offers a less invasive and more convenient alternative to traditional scopes, these capsules are only able to pr…

Cited by 25SourceScholar