Y3 Publications
November 2013-October 2014
Journal papers
J1. F. Flacco, T. Kröger, A. De Luca, O. Khatib, "A depth space approach for evaluating distance to objects – with application to human-robot collision avoidance," Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems, 10.1007/s10846-014-0146-2.
J2. S. Haddadin, S. Haddadin, A. Khoury, T. Rokahr, S. Parusel, R. Burgkart, A. Bicchi, A. Albu-Schaeffer, "Biomechanisch sichere Geschwindigkeitsregelung fur die Mensch-Roboter Interaktion," At-Automatisierungstechnik, vol. 62, no. 3, pp. 175-187, 2014, 10.1515/auto-2012-0236.
J3. C. Ott, R. Mukherjee, Y. Nakamura, "A hybrid system framework for unified impedance and admittance control," Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems, 10.1007/s10846-014-0082-1.
J4. F. Petit, A. Daasch, A. Albu-Schäffer, "Backstepping control of variable stiffness robots," IEEE Transactions on Control System Technology, 2014, in press.
J5. M. Laffranchi, L. Chen, N. Kashiri, J. Lee, N.G. Tsagarakis, D.G. Caldwell, "Development and control of a series elastic actuator equipped with a semi active friction damper for human friendly robots," Robotics and Autonomous Systems, vol. 62, no. 12, pp. 1827-1836, 2014, 10.1016/j.robot.2014.06.007.
J6. T. Menard, G. Grioli, A. Bicchi, "A stiffness estimator for agonistic-antagonistic Variable Stiffness Actuator devices," IEEE Transactions on Robotics, vol. 30, no. 5, pp. 1269-1278, 2014, 10.1109/TRO.2014.2329998.
J7. N. Karavas, A. Ajoudani, N.G. Tsagarakis, J. Saglia, A. Bicchi, D.G. Caldwell, "Tele-impedance based assistive control for a compliant knee exoskeleton: Stiffness augmentation and motion assistance," Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 2014, 10.1016/j.robot.2014.09.027.
J8. G. Grioli, S. Wolf, M. Garabini, M.G. Catalano, E. Burdet, D.G. Caldwell, R. Carloni, W. Friedl, M. Grebenstein, M. Laffranchi, D. Lefeber, S. Stramigioli, N.G. Tsagarakis, M. Van Damme, B. Vanderborght, B., A. Albu-Schaeffer, A. Bicchi, "Variable Stiffness Actuators: The user’s point of view," Int. J. Robotics Research, in press.
J9. S. Lemaignan, M. Warnier, E.A. Sisbot, R. Alami, "Human-robot interaction: Tackling the AI challenges," Artificial Intelligence, in press.
J10. A. Kumar Pandey and R. Alami, "Ingredients and a framework of dexterous manipulation skills for robots in human centered environment and HRI," Journal of Robotics Society of Japan, Volume 32, No. 4 (RSJ-2014), pp.347-353, 10.7210/jrsj.32.347.
J11. X. Broquere, A. Finzi, J. Mainprice, S. Rossi, D. Sidobre, M. Staffa, "An attentional approach to human-robot interactive manipulation," International Journal of Social Robotics, vol. 6, no. 4, pp. 533-553, 2014, 10.1007/s12369-014-0236-0.
J12. M. Stommel, M. Beetz, W.L. Xu, "Inpainting of missing values in the Kinect sensor’s depth maps based on background estimates," IEEE Sensors Journal, vol. 14, no. 4, pp. 1107-1116, 2014, 10.1109/JSEN.2013.2291315.
J13. M. Stommel, M. Beetz, W.L. Xu, "Model-free detection, encoding, retrieval and visualisation of human poses from Kinect data," IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, vol. 20, no. 2, pp. 865-875, 2015, 10.1109/TMECH.2014.2322376.
J14. D. di Nocera, A.Finzi, S. Rossi, M. Staffa, "The role of intrinsic motivations in attention shifting," Frontiers in Psychology, 5(273), ISSN: 1664-1078, 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00273.
J15. P. Falco, C. Natale, "Low-level flexible planning for mobile manipulators: a distributed perception approach," Advanced Robotics, vol. 28, no. 21, pp. 1431-1444, 2014, 10.1080/01691864.2014.946446.
J16. H. Sadeghian, L. Villani, M. Keshmiri, B. Siciliano, "Task space control of robot manipulators with null-space compliance," IEEE Transactions on Robotics, vol. 30, no. 2, pp. 493-506, 2014, 10.1109/TRO.2013.2291630.
J17. A. Cirillo, P. Cirillo, G. De Maria, C. Natale, S. Pirozzi, "An artificial skin based on optoelectronic technology," Sensors and Actuators A: Physical, vol. 212, pp. 110–122, 2014, 10.1016/j.sna.2014.03.030.
Conference papers
C2. M. Bellaccini, L. Lanari, A. Paolillo, M. Vendittelli , Manual guidance of humanoid robots without force sensors: Preliminary experiments with NAO, 2014 IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation, Hong Kong, China, pp. 1184-1189, June 2014, 10.1109/ICRA.2014.6907003.
C3. M. Cefalo, G. Oriolo, Dynamically feasible task-constrained motion planning with moving obstacles, 2014 IEEE Int. Conf. On Robotics and Automation, Hong Kong, China, pp. 2045-2050, May-June 2014, 10.1109/ICRA.2014.6907130.
C4. F. Flacco, A. De Luca, A pure signal-based stiffness estimation for VSA devices, 2014 IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation, Hong Kong, China, pp. 2418-2423, June 2014, 10.1109/ICRA.2014.6907195.
C5. F. Flacco, A. De Luca, Discrete-time velocity control of redundant robots with acceleration/torque optimization properties, 2014 IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation, Hong Kong, China, pp. 5139-5144, June 2014, 10.1109/ICRA.2014.6907613.
C6. C. Gaz, F. Flacco, A. De Luca, Identifying the dynamic model used by the KUKA LWR: A reverse engineering approach, 2014 IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation, Hong Kong, China, pp. 1386-1392, June 2014, 10.1109/ICRA.2014.6907033.
C7. E. Magrini, F. Flacco, A. De Luca, Estimation of contact force using a virtual force sensor, 2014 IEEE/RSJ Int. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Chicago, USA, pp. 2126-2133, September 2014, 10.1109/IROS.2014.6942848.
C8. F. Flacco, A. De Luca, A Reverse priority approach to multi-task control of redundant robots, 2014 IEEE/RSJ Int. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Chicago, USA, pp. 2421-2427, September 2014, 10.1109/IROS.2014.6942891.
C9. M. Cognetti, P. Mohammadi, G. Oriolo, M. Vendittelli, Task-oriented whole-body planning for humanoids based on hybrid motion generation, 2014 IEEE/RSJ Int. Conf. On Intelligent Robots and Systems, Chicago, USA, pp. 4071-4076, September 2014, 10.1109/IROS.2014.6943135.
C10. A. Paolillo, A. Cherubini, F. Keith, A. Kheddar, M. Vendittelli, Toward autonomous car driving by a humanoid robot: A sensor-based framework, 2014 IEEE-RAS Int. Conf. on Humanoid Robots, Madrid, Spain, pp. 451-456, November 2014.
C11. N. Mansfeld, S. Haddadin, Reaching desired states time-optimally from equilibrium and vice versa for elastic joint robots with limited elastic deflection, 2014 IEEE/RSJ Int. Conf. On Intelligent Robots and Systems, Chicago, USA, pp. 3904-3911, September 2014, 10.1109/IROS.2014.6943111.
C12. M.C. Özparpucu, S. Haddadin, Optimal control of elastic joints with variable damping, 13th European Control Conf., Strasbourg, France, pp. 2526-2533, June 2014, 10.1109/ECC.2014.6862266.
C13. M.C. Özparpucu, S. Haddadin, A. Albu-Schaeffer, Optimal control of Variable Stiffness Actuators with nonlinear springs, 19th IFAC World Congr., Cape Town, South Africa, pp. 8487-8495, August 2014, 10.3182/20140824-6-ZA-1003.01193.
C14. F. Petit, C. Ott, A. Albu-Schaffer, A model-free approach to vibration suppression for intrinsically elastic robots, 2014 IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation, Hong Kong, China, pp. 2176 – 2182, June 2014, 10.1109/ICRA.2014.6907159.
C15. N. Kashiri, M. Laffranchi, J. Lee, N.G. Tsagarakis, L. Chen, D.G. Caldwell, Real-time damping estimation for variable impedance actuators, 2014 IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation, Hong Kong, China, pp. 1072-1077, June 2014, 10.1109/ICRA.2014.6906987.
C16. I. Sarakoglou, N.G. Tsagarakis, D.G. Caldwell, Development of a hybrid actuator with controllable mechanical damping, 2014 IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation, Hong Kong, China, pp. 1078-1083, June 2014, 10.1109/ICRA.2014.6906988.
C17. N. Kashiri, N.G. Tsagarakis, M. Van Damme, B. Vanderborght, D.G. Caldwell, Enhanced physical interaction performance for compliant joint manipulators using proxy-based sliding mode control, Int. Conf. on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics (ICINCO 2014), 10.5220/0005063201750183.
C18. J. Lee, J. Maolin, N.G. Tsagarakis, D.G. Caldwell , Terminal sliding-mode based force tracking control of piezoelectric actuators for variable physical damping system, 2014 IEEE/RSJ Int. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Chicago, USA, pp. 2407-2413, September 2014, 10.1109/IROS.2014.6942889.
C19. L. Vo-Gia, N. Kashiri, F. Negrello, N.G. Tsagarakis, D.G. Caldwell, Development of a 7DOF soft manipulator arm for the compliant humanoid robot COMAN, 2014 IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Biomimetics, Bali, Indonesia, December 2014.
C20. J. Lee, M. Laffranchi, N. Kashiri, N. G. Tsagarakis, D.G. Caldwell, Model-free force tracking control of piezoelectric actuators: Application to variable damping actuator, 2014 IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation, Hong Kong, China, pp. 2283-2289, June 2014, 10.1109/ICRA.2014.6907175.
C21. N. Kashiri, M. Laffranchi, N.G. Tsagarakis, A. Margan, D.G. Caldwell, Physical interaction, detection and control of compliant manipulators equipped with friction clutches, 2014 IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation, Hong Kong, China, pp. 1066-1071, June 2014, 10.1109/ICRA.2014.6906986.
C22. L. Rozo, S. Calinon, D.G. Caldwell, Learning force and position constraints in human-robot cooperative transportation, 23rd IEEE Int. Symp. On Robot and Human Interactive Communication, pp. 619-624, Edinburgh, UK, August 2014, 10.1109/ROMAN.2014.6926321.
C23. S. Calinon, D. Bruno, D.G. Caldwell, A task-parameterized probabilistic model with minimal intervention control, 2014 IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation, Hong Kong, China, pp. 3339-3344, June 2014, 10.1109/ICRA.2014.6907339.
C24. J. Lee, A. Ajoudani, E. Mingo, A. Rocchi, A. Settimi, M. Ferrati, A. Bicchi, N.G. Tsagarakis, D.G. Caldwell, Upper-body impedance control with an intuitive stiffness emulation for a door opening task, 2014 IEEE-RAS Int. Conf. on Humanoid Robots, Madrid, Spain, November 2014.
C25. J. Petereit, T. Emter, C. Frey, Combined trajectory generation and path planning for mobile robots using lattices with hybrid dimensionality, Robot Intelligence Technology and Applications 2, in Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol. 274, pp. 145-157, 2014 (Proc. 2nd Int. Conf. On Robot Intelligence Technology and Applications) 10.1007/978-3-319-05582-4_14.
C26. A. Fetzner, C. Frese, C. Frey, A 3D representation of obstacles in the robot’s reachable area considering occlusions, 45th Int. Symp. On Robotics and 8th German Conf. On Robotics (ISR/ROBOTIK), session “Human-Robot Interaction“, June 2014.
C27. C. Frese, A. Fetzner, C. Frey, Multi-sensor obstacle tracking for safe human-robot interaction, 45th Int. Symp. On Robotics and 8th German Conf. On Robotics (ISR/ROBOTIK), June 2014.
C28. S. Walther, T. Guhl, Classification of physical human-robot interaction scenarios to identify relevant requirements, 45th Int. Symp. On Robotics and 8th German Conf. On Robotics (ISR/ROBOTIK), session “Human-Robot Interaction”, June 2014.
C29. M. Machin, F. Dufosse, J.P. Blanquart, J. Guiochet, D. Powell, M. Roy, H. Waeselynck, Specifying safety monitors for autonomous systems using model-checking, Computer Safety, Reliability, and Security, in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 8666, pp 262-277, 2014 (Proc. 33rd Int. Conf. on Computer Safety, Reliability and Security, Florence, Italy, September 2014), 10.1007/978-3-319-10506-2_18.
C30. M. Fiore, A. Clodic, R. Alami, On planning and task achievement modalities for human-robot collaboration, International Symposium on Experimental Robotics, Marrakech/Essaouira, June 15–18, 2014.
C31. L. De Silva, M. Gharbi, A. Kumar Pandey and R. Alami, A new approach to combined symbolic-geometric backtracking in the context of human-robot interaction, 2014 IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation, Hong Kong, China, pp. 3757 – 3763 10.1109/ICRA.2014.6907403.
C32. M. Saveriano, D. Lee, Distance based dynamical system modulation for reactive avoidance of moving obstacles, 2014 IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation, Hong Kong, China, pp. 5618-5623, June 2014, 10.1109/ICRA.2014.6907685.
C33. V. Magnanimo, M. Saveriano, S. Rossi, D. Lee, A Bayesian approach for task recognition and future human activity prediction, 23rd IEEE Int. Symp. On Robot and Human Interactive Communication, Edinburgh, UK, pp. 726-731, August 2014, 10.1109/ROMAN.2014.6926339.
C34. M. Saveriano, D. Lee, Learning motion and impedance behaviors from human demonstrations, 11th Int. Conf. on Ubiquitous Robots and Ambient Intelligence, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, November 2014.
C35. M. Tenorth, G. Bartels, M. Beetz, Knowledge-based specification of robot motions, ECAI 2014, Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications, vol. 263, pp. 873-878, 2014 (Proc. 21st European Conf. on Artificial Intelligence, Prague, Czech Republic, August 2014), 10.3233/978-1-61499-419-0-873.
C36. A. Cirillo, P. Cirillo, G. De Maria, C. Natale, S. Pirozzi, An optoelectronic artificial skin for contact force vector estimation, 19th IFAC World Congr., Cape Town, South Africa, pp. 7592-7597, August 2014, 10.3182/20140824-6-ZA-1003.00998.
C37. S. Iengo, S. Rossi, M. Staffa, A. Finzi, Continuous gesture recognition for flexible human-robot interaction, 2014 IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation, Hong Kong, China, pp. 4863-4868, June 2014, 10.1109/ICRA.2014.6907571.
C38. L. Lucignano, F. Cutugno, S. Rossi, A. Finzi, A dialogue system for multimodal human-robot interaction, 15th ACM Int. Conf. On Multimodal Interaction, Sydney, AUS, pp. 197-204, December 2013, 10.1145/2522848.2522873.
C39. S. Rossi, M. Staffa, A. Adaldo, F. Alderisio, V. Magnanimo, Attentive monitoring for team coordination: a human-robot convoy example, Int. Work. On Autonomous Robots and Multirobot Systems (ARMS), in conjunction with with AAMAS, Paris, France, May 2014, 10.13140/2.1.4952.0322.
C40. R. Caccavale, A. Finzi, L. Lucignano, S. Rossi, M. Staffa, Attentional top-down regulations in a situated human-robot dialogue, Work. on Attention Models in Robotics: Visual System for better HRI, in conjunction with HRI’14, Bielefeld, Germany, March 2014.
C41. M. Staffa, M. De Gregorio, M. Giordano, S. Rossi, Can you follow that guy? 22th European Symp. On Artificial Neural Networks, Computational Intelligence and Machine Learning, Bruges, Belgium, pp. 511-516, April 2014, ISBN: 978-287419095-7.
C42. S. Rossi, M. Staffa, Human inspiration and comparison for monitoring strategies in a robotic convoy task, From Animals to Animats 13, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 8575, pp. 310-319, 2014 (Proc. 13th Int. Conf. On Adaptive Behaviour, Castellón, Spain, July 2014), 10.1007/978-3-319-08864-8_30.
C43. R. Caccavale, A. Finzi, L. Lucignano, S. Rossi, M. Staffa, Attentional top-down regulation and dialogue management in human-robot interaction, 2014 ACM/IEEE Int. Conf. On Human-Robot Interaction, Bielefeld, Germany, pp. 130-131, March 2014, 10.1145/2559636.2559854.
C44. R. Caccavale, E. Leone, L. Lucignano, S. Rossi, M. Staffa, A. Finzi, Attentional regulations in a situated human-robot dialogue, 23rd IEEE Int. Symp. On Robot and Human Interactive Communication, Edinburgh, UK, pp. 844-849, August 2014, 10.1109/ROMAN.2014.6926358.
C45. F. Ficuciello, A. Romano, L. Villani, B. Siciliano, Cartesian impedance control of redundant manipulators for human-robot co-manipulation, 2014 IEEE/RSJ Int. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Chicago, USA, pp. 2120-2125, September 2014, 10.1109/IROS.2014.6942847.
C46. F. Ficuciello, L. Villani, B. Siciliano, Redundancy resolution in human-robot co-manipulation with cartesian impedance control, 2014 Int. Symp. On Experimental Robotics, Marrakech/Essaouira, Morocco, June 2014.
C47.F. Ficuciello, A. Romano, V. Lippiello, L. Villani, B. Siciliano, Human motion mapping to a robot arm with redundancy resolution, 14th Int. Symp. On Advances in Robot Kinematics, Ljubljana, Slovenia, pp.193-201, June 2014, 10.1007/978-3-319-06698-1_21.
C48. H. Sadeghian, L. Villani, M. Keshmiri, B. Siciliano, Experimental study on task space control during human robot interaction, 2nd RSI/ISM International Conference on Robotics and Mechatronics, Tehran, Iran, pp.125-130, October 2014, 10.1109/ICRoM.2014.6990888.
C49. Y. Kim, M. Garabini, J. Park, A. Bicchi, Drum stroke variation using variable stiffness actuators, 2014 IEEE/RSJ Int. Conf. On Intelligent Robots and Systems, Chicago, USA, pp. 3892-3897, September 2014, 10.1109/IROS.2014.6943109.
C50. R. Krug, T. Stoyanov, M. Bonilla, V. Tincani, N. Vaskeviciusz, G. Fantoni, A. Birkz, A. Lilienthal, A. Bicchi, Velvet fingers: Grasp planning and execution for an underactuated gripper with active surfaces, 2014 IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation, Hong Kong, China, pp. 3669-3675, June 2014, 10.1109/ICRA.2014.6907390.