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John Peter Whitney

4 accepted papers

2025

Force Admittance Control of an Underactuated Gripper with Full-State Feedback

ICRA 2025

We present admittance control and fingertip contact detection with a linkage gripper remotely driven by a pneumatic rolling diaphragm actuator. The gripper is driven by underactuated mechanisms sensorized by joint encoders in order to fully determine the gripper state. We present the modelling of th

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2023

Team Northeastern's Approach to ANA XPRIZE Avatar Final Testing: A Holistic Approach to Telepresence and Lessons Learned

IROS 2023poster

This paper reports on Team Northeastern's Avatar system for telepresence, and our holistic approach to meet the ANA Avatar XPRIZE Final testing task requirements. The system features a dual-arm configuration with hydraulically actuated glove-gripper pair for haptic force feedback. Our proposed Avata…

Cited by 26SourceScholar
2022

Towards Robot Avatars: Systems and Methods for Teleinteraction at Avatar XPRIZE Semi-Finals

IROS 2022poster

There has been a drastic shift to remote interaction for professional, industrial and personal interactions. Improving the overall quality of these interactions by removing any sense of distance between the users is the ultimate goal. Video conferencing has been widely adopted as an improvement to a…

Cited by 22SourceScholar