As robots become more ubiquitous in our daily lives, the opportunities for human-robot interaction continue to increase. Designing robotic devices that can successfully interact with humans in an intuitive and natural way remains a grand challenge of robotics. Research in the Statler College approaches this challenge from both the robotic and human perspective and aims to understand the principles of human movement and human-robot interaction, design robots and their control algorithms inspired by these principles, and evaluate the social, physical, and cognitive effects of human-robotic interactions.
Affiliated Faculty
Recent Publications
- Liss, D.J., Allen J.L., “Young adults can perceive very small locomotor disturbances even when distracted” 44th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Biomechanics, August 2020
- Allen, Jessica L., Lena H. Ting, and Trisha M. Kesar. "Gait rehabilitation using functional electrical stimulation induces changes in ankle muscle coordination in stroke survivors: a preliminary study." Frontiers in Neurology 9 (2018): 1127.
- Szczecinski, Nicholas S., Clarissa A. Goldsmith, Fletcher R. Young, and Roger D. Quinn. "Tuning a Robot Servomotor to Exhibit Muscle-Like Dynamics." In Conference on Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems, pp. 254-265. Springer, Cham, 2019.
- Szczecinski, Nicholas S., Alexander J. Hunt, and Roger D. Quinn. "Design process and tools for dynamic neuromechanical models and robot controllers." Biological cybernetics 111, no. 1 (2017): 105-127.
- Dhanaraj, N., Hewitt, N., Edmonds-Estes, C., Jarman, R., Seo, J., Gunner, H., Hatfield, A., Jonshon, T., Yifru, L., Maffeo, J., Pereira, G., Gross, J., Gu, Y. “Adaptable Plaform for Interactive Swarm Robotics (APIS): A Human-Sward Interactions Research Tesbed” 2019 IEEE Conference on Advanced Robotics (ICAR) , Belo-Horizonte, Brazil, Dec. 2019
- Chen, Y., Yang, C., Song, B., Gonzalez, N., Gu, Y., Hu, B., “Effects of Autonomous Mobile Robots on Human Mental Workload and System Productivity in Smart Warehouses: A Preliminary Study,” accepted, Human Factors and Ergonomics Society's 2020 International Annual Meeting, 2020.
- Mandal, T., and Gu, Y., “Analysis of Pilot-Induced-Oscillation and Pilot Vehicle System Stability Using UAS Flight Experiments,” Aerospace 2016, 3(4), 42; doi: 10.3390/aerospace3040042, Nov 2016.