• Papers to be Presented at IROS 2024

    Three papers from the lab group will be presented at the IEEE/RSJ conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems in Abu Dhabi. Congratulations to all of the researchers that have had their work accepted and published.

    C. O’Neill and H. H. Asada, “Koopman Dynamic Modeling for Global and Unified Representations of Rigid Body Systems Making and Breaking Contact,” in 2024 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Abu Dhabi, 2024 (Accepted)

    R. Bolli and H. H. Asada, “Enhancing Elderly Mobility: A Sturdy, Two-Body Robot for Handlebar Placement in Any Location,” in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2024. doi: 10.1109/LRA.2024.3359549

    I. Nozawa, E. Kamienski, C. O’Neill and H. H. Asada, “A Monte Carlo Approach to Koopman Direct Encoding and Its Application to the Learning of Neural-Network Observables,” in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 9, no. 3, pp. 2264-2271, March 2024, doi: 10.1109/LRA.2024.3354612.

  • 4 Recent Publications in RA-L and ICRA 2024

    We are pleased to announce that two papers have been accepted for publication in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L):

    • I. Nozawa, E. Kamienski, C. O’Neill and H. H. Asada, “A Monte Carlo Approach to Koopman Direct Encoding and Its Application to the Learning of Neural-Network Observables.
    • R. Bolli and H. H. Asada, “Enhancing Elderly Mobility: A Sturdy, Two-Body Robot for Handlebar Placement in Any Location.”

    In addition, two papers have been accepted to ICRA 2024:

    • E. Ballesteros, S.-Y. Lee, K. Carpenter, and H. H. Asada, “Supernumerary Robotic Limbs to Support Post-Fall Recoveries for Astronauts.”
    • K. Barhydt et al.

    Congratulations to all involved!

  • 2 Papers Accepted to IROS 2023

    We are pleased to announce that two papers have been accepted for inclusion in the IROS 2023 program: “A Handle Robot for Providing Bodily Support to Elderly Persons” and “An Avatar Robot Overlaid with the 3D Human Model of a Remote Operator”. This is in addition to recent lab publications in RA-L, T-RO, and other academic journals.

    We remain active in the fields of robotic eldercare, human-robot interaction, soft robotics, Koopman theory, SuperLimbs, and dexterous crane manipulation. Stay tuned for more!

  • 6 Papers Accepted to ICRA 2020

    This year the d’Arbeloff lab had a large number of accepted submissions to the 2020 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2020). As a lab, we had a record-breaking 6 papers accepted and presented at the virtual conference. On behalf of the whole lab, congratulations to Jacob, Dan, Filippos, Ryan, Hiroshi, and Haruhiko for the accomplishment.

    D. Gonzalez – Passive Quadrupedal Gait Synchronization for Extra Robotics Legs using a Dynamically Coupled Double Rimless Wheel Model
    H. Matsuo – Design of a Novel Multiple-DOF Extendable Arm with Rigid Components Inspired by a Deployable Origami Structure
    R. Sanzimier – A Data-Driven Approach to Prediction and Optimal Bucket-Filling Control for Autonomous Excavators
    J. Guggenheim – Leveraging the Human Operator in the Design and Control of Supernumerary Robotic Limbs
    H. Eto – Development of a Wheeled Wall-Climbing Robot with a Shape-Adaptive Magnetic Adhesion Mechanism

  • Paper published in IROS 2020

    Congratulations to Phillip Daniel for his recent publication!

    In ‘Stable Crawling Policy for Wearable SuperLimbs Attached to a Human with Tuned Impedance’, Phillip demonstrates a control algorithm allowing for a human model to crawl using a pair of supernumerary robotic limbs. Verifying the walking policy that he developed using simulated experiments, Phillip’s work is the first, that we are aware of, to address cooperative crawling between a human and a wearable robotic system with state feedback.

    The full paper can be found in IROS 2020’s Conference Proceedings.

    Daniel, Phillip, Asada, Harry, “Stable Walking Policy for Wearable SuperLimbs Attached to a Human with Tuned Impedance,” IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2020. Las Vegas, NV. 25-29 Oct 2020

  • Paper published in PNAS

    Min-Cheol’s paper “Computational Modeling of Three-Dimensional ECM-Rigidity Sensing to Guide Directed Cell Migration” has published online at: www.pnas.org.

     

  • 3 Papers Accepted to ACC 2016

    Congratulations to Michaelle, Faye, Alexandre, Min-Cheol, and Prof. Asada on having their submissions accepted for publication in the proceedings of the 2016 American Control Conference, Boston, MA, July 6-8, 2016.

    1. Kim, M.C., Mayalu, M., and Asada, H.H., “Dynamic Modeling of Collective Cell Migration on an Elastic Substrate of Extracellular Matrix fiber network,” Proceedings of the 2016 American Control Conference, Boston, MA, July 6-8, 2016.
    2. Mayalu, M., Kim, M.C., and Asada, H.H., “A Reduced Order Systems Approach to Prediction of Emergent Behaviors of Cellular Systems,” Proceedings of the 2016 American Control Conference, Boston, MA, July 6-8, 2016.
    3. Asada, H.H., Wu, F., Girard, A., Mayalu, M., “A Data-Driven Approach to Precise Linearization of Nonlinear Dynamical Systems in Augmented Latent Space,” Proceedings of the 2016 American Control Conference, Boston, MA, July 6-8, 2016.

    Program is available here: https://css.paperplaza.net/conferences/conferences/2016ACC/program/

  • Paper Published in PLoS Computational Biology

    Min-Cheol’s paper, Cell Invasion Dynamics into an ECM Fiber Network was featured on the homepage of PLoS Computational Biology.

    Link to donwload the paper

     

  • 2 Papers Accepted to ICRA 2016!

    Congratulations to Alexandre Girard and Daniel J. Gonzalez on having their submissions accepted for publication in the proceedings for the 2016 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation!

  • d’Arbeloff Lab excited for Star Wars Episode VII

    Members of the d’Arbeloff Lab have put some of their robots to work in combating the Dark Side of the Force! Featured are the Triple Scissor Extender by Daniel J. Gonzalez and the latest generation of Supernumerary Robotic Limbs (SRLs) by Federico Parietti.