A variable compliance, soft gripper (2013)
Journal Article
Giannaccini, M. E., Georgilas, I., Horsfield, I., Peiris, B. H. P. M., Lenz, A., Pipe, A. G., & Dogramadzi, S. (2014). A variable compliance, soft gripper. Autonomous Robots, 36(1-2), 93-107. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10514-013-9374-8

Autonomous grasping is an important but challenging task and has therefore been intensively addressed by the robotics community. One of the important issues is the ability of the grasping device to accommodate varying object shapes in order to form a... Read More about A variable compliance, soft gripper.

Computation of the travelling salesman problem by a shrinking blob (2013)
Journal Article
Jones, J., & Adamatzky, A. (2014). Computation of the travelling salesman problem by a shrinking blob. Natural Computing, 13(1), 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11047-013-9401-x

The travelling salesman problem (TSP) is a well known and challenging combinatorial optimisation problem. Its computational intractability has attracted a number of heuristic approaches to generate satisfactory, if not optimal, candidate solutions. S... Read More about Computation of the travelling salesman problem by a shrinking blob.

The role of haptic feedback for the integration of intentions in shared task execution (2013)
Journal Article
Groten, R., Feth, D., Klatzky, R. L., & Peer, A. (2013). The role of haptic feedback for the integration of intentions in shared task execution. IEEE Transactions on Haptics, 6(1), 94-105. https://doi.org/10.1109/ToH.2012.2

Recent developments strive for realizing robotic systems that not only interact, but closely collaborate with humans in performing everyday manipulation tasks. Successful collaboration requires the integration of the individual partner's intentions i... Read More about The role of haptic feedback for the integration of intentions in shared task execution.

Exploring the design space of haptic assistants: The assistance policy module (2013)
Journal Article
Passenberg, C., Glaser, A., & Peer, A. (2013). Exploring the design space of haptic assistants: The assistance policy module. IEEE Transactions on Haptics, 6(4), 440-452. https://doi.org/10.1109/TOH.2013.34

Haptic assistants augment user commands to facilitate manipulation and to increase task performance. The strength of assistance, also referred to as assistance level, is one of the main design factors. While existing implementations mainly realize fi... Read More about Exploring the design space of haptic assistants: The assistance policy module.

A comparison of evaluation measures for emotion recognition in dimensional space (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Jenke, R., Peer, A., & Buss, M. (2013, September). A comparison of evaluation measures for emotion recognition in dimensional space. Paper presented at IEEE International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction, Geneva, Switzerland

Development of a new 6 DOF parallel haptic interface for the rendering of elements and interior equipment in a car (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Ergin, M. A., & Peer, A. (2013, August). Development of a new 6 DOF parallel haptic interface for the rendering of elements and interior equipment in a car. Paper presented at International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, Gyeongju, South Korea

A BCI using VEP for continuous control of a mobile robot (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Kapeller, C., Hintermüller, C., Abu-Alqumsan, M., Prückl, R., Peer, A., & Guger, C. (2013, July). A BCI using VEP for continuous control of a mobile robot. Paper presented at 35th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), Osaka, Japan

Design and evaluation of a haptic computer-assistant for telemanipulation tasks (2013)
Journal Article
Stefanov, N., Passenberg, C., Peer, A., & Buss, M. (2013). Design and evaluation of a haptic computer-assistant for telemanipulation tasks. IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems, 43(4), 385-397. https://doi.org/10.1109/TSMC.2013.2257743

This paper introduces a computer-assisted teleoperation system, where the control over the teleoperator is shared between a human operator and computer assistance in order to improve the overall task performance. Two units, an action recognition and... Read More about Design and evaluation of a haptic computer-assistant for telemanipulation tasks.

Hand exoskeleton for remote control of minimally invasive surgical anthropomorphic instrumentation (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Tzemanaki, A., Gao, X., Pipe, A. G., Melhuish, C., & Dogramadzi, S. (2013, June). Hand exoskeleton for remote control of minimally invasive surgical anthropomorphic instrumentation. Poster presented at The 6th Hamlyn Symposium on Medical Robotics, London, UK

SSVEP based brain-computer interface combined with video for robotic control (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Kapeller, C., Hintermüller, C., Abu-Alqumsan, M., Prückl, R., Peer, A., & Guger, C. (2013, June). SSVEP based brain-computer interface combined with video for robotic control. Paper presented at Fifth International Brain-Computer Interface Meeting, California, USA

Effect-size-based electrode and feature selection for emotion recognition from EEG (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Jenke, R., Peer, A., & Buss, M. (2013, May). Effect-size-based electrode and feature selection for emotion recognition from EEG. Paper presented at IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Vancouver, Canada

Haptic perception of material properties and implications for applications (2013)
Journal Article
Klatzky, R. L., Pawluk, D., & Peer, A. (2013). Haptic perception of material properties and implications for applications. Proceedings of the IEEE, 101(9), 2081-2092. https://doi.org/10.1109/JPROC.2013.2248691

Perceiving the material properties of objects through touch is generally superior to the perception of shape. We review major material properties accessible through haptic interaction, along with theoretical accounts of the underlying perceptual proc... Read More about Haptic perception of material properties and implications for applications.

Inverse kinematics for shape rendering interfaces (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Klare, S., & Peer, A. (2013, May). Inverse kinematics for shape rendering interfaces. Paper presented at IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Karlsruhe, Germany

Formable object — A new haptic interface for shape rendering (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Klare, S., Forssilow, D., & Peer, A. (2013, April). Formable object — A new haptic interface for shape rendering. Paper presented at WorldHaptics, Daejeon, South Korea

Bioinspired control of electro-active polymers for next generation soft robots (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Wilson, E., Anderson, S. R., Assaf, T., Pearson, M., Walters, P., Prescott, T. J., …Porrill, J. (2012). Bioinspired control of electro-active polymers for next generation soft robots. In G. Herrmann, M. Studley, M. Pearson, A. Conn, C. Melhuish, M. Witkowski, …J. H. Kim (Eds.), Advances in Autonomous Robotics: Joint Proceedings of the 13th Annual TAROS Conference and the 15th Annual FIRA RoboWorld Congress, Bristol, UK, August 20-23, 2012, Proceedings (424-425). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-32527-4_42

The emerging field of soft robotics offers the prospect of replacing existing hard actuator technologies with new soft-smart materials [7]. Such materials have the potential to form a key component of safer, more compliant and light-weight robots. So... Read More about Bioinspired control of electro-active polymers for next generation soft robots.

Beaming: An asymmetric telepresence system (2012)
Journal Article
Steed, A., Steptoe, W., Oyekoya, W., Pece, F., Weyrich, T., Kautz, J., …Slater, M. (2012). Beaming: An asymmetric telepresence system. IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, 32(6), 10-17. https://doi.org/10.1109/MCG.2012.110

The Beaming project recreates, virtually, a real environment; using immersive VR, remote participants can visit the virtual model and interact with the people in the real environment. The real environment doesn't need extensive equipment and can be a... Read More about Beaming: An asymmetric telepresence system.

Robotic re-embodiment using a brain computer interface (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Abu-Alqumsan, M., Jenke, R., Peer, A., & Buss, M. (2012, October). Robotic re-embodiment using a brain computer interface. Presented at Neuroscience 2012, New Orleans, USA

Towards robotic re-embodiment using a brain-and-body-computer interface (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Martens, N., Jenke, R., Abu-Alqumsan, M., Kapeller, C., Hintermüller, C., Guger, C., …Buss, M. (2012, October). Towards robotic re-embodiment using a brain-and-body-computer interface. Presented at IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Vilamoura Algarve, Portugal

Masking effects for damping JND (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Rank, M., Schauß, T., Peer, A., Hirche, S., & Klatzky, R. (2012, June). Masking effects for damping JND. Paper presented at EuroHaptics, Tampere, Finland

Beyond classical teleoperation: Assistance, cooperation, data reduction, and spatial audio (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Schauß, T., Passenberg, C., Stefanov, N., Feth, D., Vittorias, I., Peer, A., …Steinbach, E. (2012, May). Beyond classical teleoperation: Assistance, cooperation, data reduction, and spatial audio. Presented at IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Saint Paul, MN, USA