Exploring the design space of haptic assistants: The assistance policy module (2013)
Journal Article

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.

Design and evaluation of a haptic computer-assistant for telemanipulation tasks (2013)
Journal Article

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.

Haptic perception of material properties and implications for applications (2013)
Journal Article

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.

Beaming: An asymmetric telepresence system (2012)
Journal Article

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

Emergence of self-organized amoeboid movement in a multi-agent approximation of Physarum polycephalum (2012)
Journal Article

The giant single-celled slime mould Physarum polycephalum exhibits complex morphological adaptation and amoeboid movement as it forages for food and may be seen as a minimal example of complex robotic behaviour. Swarm computation has previously been... Read More about Emergence of self-organized amoeboid movement in a multi-agent approximation of Physarum polycephalum.

Psychological experiments in haptic collaboration research (2012)
Book Chapter

Immersive Multimodal Interactive Presence (2012)
Book

Social haptic interaction with virtual characters (2012)
Book Chapter

Adaptive brain computer interface — Application in robotics (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Development and evaluation of a device for the haptic rendering of rotatory car doors (2011)
Journal Article

Virtual prototyping of car doors enhanced with haptic feedback is a promising way to decrease the number of physical prototypes. We clarify, correct, summarize, and extend our previous work on the haptic simulation of car doors. A fundamental issue i... Read More about Development and evaluation of a device for the haptic rendering of rotatory car doors.

Handshake: Realistic human-robot interaction in haptic enhanced virtual reality (2011)
Journal Article

This paper focuses on the development and evaluation of a haptic enhanced virtual reality system which allows a human user to make physical handshakes with a virtual partner through a haptic interface. Multimodal feedback signals are designed to gene... Read More about Handshake: Realistic human-robot interaction in haptic enhanced virtual reality.

Contributions of the PPC to online control of visually guided reaching movements assessed with fMRI-Guided TMS (2011)
Journal Article

The posterior parietal cortex (PPC) plays an important role in controlling voluntary movements by continuously integrating sensory information about body state and the environment. We tested which subregions of the PPC contribute to the processing of... Read More about Contributions of the PPC to online control of visually guided reaching movements assessed with fMRI-Guided TMS.

Haptic human-robot collaboration: Comparison of robot partner implementations in terms of human-likeness and task performance (2011)
Journal Article

In the past, working spaces of humans and robots were strictly separated, but recent developments have sought to bring robots into closer interaction with humans. In this context, physical human-robot interaction represents a major challenge, as it i... Read More about Haptic human-robot collaboration: Comparison of robot partner implementations in terms of human-likeness and task performance.

A survey of environment-, operator-, and task-adapted controllers for teleoperation systems (2010)
Journal Article

Bilateral haptic teleoperation systems allow humans to perform complex tasks in a remote or inaccessible environment, while providing haptic feedback to the human operator. The incorporation of online gained environment-, operator-, or task-specific... Read More about A survey of environment-, operator-, and task-adapted controllers for teleoperation systems.

Influence of varied human movement control on task performance and feeling of telepresence (2010)
Journal Article

One of the main objectives in telerobotics is the development of a telemanipulation system that allows a high task performance to be achieved by simultaneously providing a high degree of telepresence. Specific mechatronic design guidelines and approp... Read More about Influence of varied human movement control on task performance and feeling of telepresence.

Development of a multi-modal multi-user telepresence and teleaction system (2010)
Journal Article

The presented multi-user telepresence and teleaction system enables two teleoperators, which are independently controlled by two human operators, to perform collaborative actions in a remote environment. The system provides the operators with visual,... Read More about Development of a multi-modal multi-user telepresence and teleaction system.

Towards Physarum binary adders (2010)
Journal Article

Plugfest 2009: Global interoperability in telerobotics and telemedicine (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Shared-control paradigms in multi-operator-single-robot teleoperation (2010)
Book Chapter