Publications

MakeSense: Automated Sensor Design for Proprioceptive Soft Robots

• January 22, 2020

• Javier Tapia (URJC Madrid)
• Espen Knoop
• Mojmir Mutný (ETH Zurich)
• Miguel A. Otaduy (URJC Madrid)
• Moritz Bächer

• Soft Robotics (SoRo)

On the Role of Stiffness and Synchronization in Human-Robot Handshaking

• December 19, 2019

• Espen Knoop
• Moritz Bächer
• Domenico Mura (University of Pisa)
• Giorgio Grioli (Italian Institute of Technology)
• Manuel Catalano (Italian Institute of Technology)
• Antonio Bicci (University of Pisa)

• The International Journal of Robotics Research

X-CAD: Optimizing CAD Models with Extended Finite Elements

• November 18, 2019

• Christian Hafner, Disney Research and IST Austria
• Christian Schumacher
• Espen Knoop
• Thomas Auzinger, IST Austria
• Bernd Bickel, IST Austria
• Moritz Bächer

• SIGGRAPH Asia 2019

Fast Handovers with a Robot Character: Small Sensorimotor Delays Improve Perceived Qualities

• November 7, 2019

• Matthew Pan
• Espen Knoop
• Moritz Bächer
• Günter Niemeyer

• IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)

Vibration-Minimizing Motion Retargeting for Robotic Characters

• July 29, 2019

• Shayan Hoshyari, Disney Research and University of British Columbia
• Hongyi Xu
• Espen Knoop
• Stelian Coros, ETH Zurich
• Moritz Bächer

• SIGGRAPH 2019

Bend-It: Design and Fabrication of Kinetic Wire Characters

• December 6, 2018

• Hongyi Xu
• Espen Knoop
• Stelian Coros (ETH Zurich)
• Moritz Bächer

• ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2018

MetaSilicone: Design and Fabrication of Composite Silicone with Desired Mechanical Properties

• November 27, 2017

• Jonas Zehnder
• Espen Knoop
• Moritz Bächer
• Bernhard Thomaszewski

• ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2017

Feeling Fireworks

• October 22, 2017

• Dorothea Reusser (Disney Research, ETH Zurich)
• Espen Knoop
• Roland Siegwart (ETH Zurich)
• Paul Beardsley

• ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (ACM UIST) 2017

Handshakiness: Benchmarking for Human-Robot Hand Interactions

• September 24, 2017

• Espen Knoop
• Moritz Bächer
• Vincent Wall (TU Berlin)
• Raphael Deimel (TU Berlin)
• Oliver Brock (TU Berlin)
• Paul Beardsley

• IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) 2017

Designing Cable-Driven Actuation Networks for Kinematic Chains and Trees

• July 28, 2017

• Vittorio Megaro
• Espen Knoop
• Andrew Spielberg (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
• David I.W. Levin (University of Toronto)
• Wojciech Matusik (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
• Markus Gross
• Bernhard Thomaszewski
• Moritz Bächer

• ACM SIGGRAPH / Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation (SCA) 2017

• Press Release:  Design method helps animated characters gain physical form

Contact Pressure Distribution as an Evaluation Metric for Human-Robot Hand Interactions

• March 6, 2017

• Espen Knoop
• Moritz Bächer
• Paul Beardsley

• HRI 2017 workshop - Towards reproducible HRI Experiments: Scientific endeavors, benchmarking and standardization