Patrick Slade — accepted AI-conference papers

2024

Design & Systematic Evaluation of Power Transmission Efficiency of an Ankle Exoskeleton for Walking Post-Stroke

Myles Cooper, Santiago Canete, Asa Eckert-Erdheim, Aidan Kimberley, Christopher Siviy, Teresa Baker +3

ICRA 2024poster

Community-based locomotor training post-stroke has shown improvements in independent ambulation by increasing dose, intensity, and specificity of walking practice. Robotic ankle exoskeletons hold the potential to facilitate continued rehabilitation at home, but understanding what aspects of the desi…

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2019

Stanford Doggo: An Open-Source, Quasi-Direct-Drive Quadruped

Nathan Kau, Aaron Schultz, Natalie Ferrante, Patrick Slade

ICRA 2019poster

This paper presents Stanford Doggo, a quasi-direct-drive quadruped capable of dynamic locomotion. This robot matches or exceeds common performance metrics of state-of-the-art legged robots. In terms of vertical jumping agility, a measure of average vertical speed, Stanford Doggo matches the best per…

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2017

Design of a soft catheter for low-force and constrained surgery

Patrick Slade, Alex Gruebele, Zachary Hammond, Michael Raitor, Allison M. Okamura, Elliot W. Hawkes

IROS 2017poster

Surgeries involving interaction with soft tissue like the brain need to minimize shear and normal forces that can cause tissue damage or hemorrhage. Other surgeries require the ability to follow a complex, curved path, such as through an intestine or to a kidney stone. This paper presents a soft cat…

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2017

Simultaneous active parameter estimation and control using sampling-based Bayesian reinforcement learning

Patrick Slade, Preston Culbertson, Zachary Sunberg, Mykel Kochenderfer

IROS 2017poster

Robots performing manipulation tasks must operate under uncertainty about both their pose and the dynamics of the system. In order to remain robust to modeling error and shifts in payload dynamics, agents must simultaneously perform estimation and control tasks. However, the optimal estimation actio…

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2015

Tact: Design and performance of an open-source, affordable, myoelectric prosthetic hand

Patrick Slade, Aadeel Akhtar, Mary Nguyen, Timothy Bretl

ICRA 2015poster

This paper presents the Tact hand—an anthropomorphic, open-source, myoelectric prosthetic hand that was designed for use by people with transradial amputations in developing countries. This hand matches or exceeds the performance of other state-of-the-art myoelectric prosthetic hands, but costs two…

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