6 accepted papers
Tactile sensing and the manipulation of delicate objects are critical challenges in robotics. This study presents a vision-based magnetic-actuated whisker array sensor that integrates these functions. The sensor features eight whiskers arranged circularly, supported by an elastomer membrane and actu
Remote, hazardous, and extreme exploration missions require robots to be equipped with on-board sensors for rich and heterogeneous information during deployment. In such tasks, path planning can directly affect the quality and quantity of the observations obtained under temporal and energetic constr
Planning object manipulation policies based on tactile observations alone is a challenging task due to the multi-factorial variances in the measured point cloud (e.g. sparsity, missing regions, rotation, etc.) and the limited sensory information available through tactile sensing. Nevertheless, the m
In Robot-Assisted Surgery, predicting surgeon attributes such as task workload, operation performance, and expertise levels is important in providing tailored assistance. This paper proposes Joint Inference for Surgeon Attributes Prediction (JISAP), a computational framework to jointly infer surgeon…
Turn-taking is essential to the structure of human teamwork. Humans are typically aware of team members' intention to keep or relinquish their turn before a turn switch, where the responsibility of working on a shared task is shifted. Future co-robots are also expected to provide such competence. To…
Recent studies revealed that hand gesture-based interfaces can complement therapies for individuals with upper motor impairments and reduce the need of traditional rehabilitation sessions through hospital visits. Unfortunately, existing gesture-based interfaces have been developed without considerin…