Sensor Systems Laboratory

Hobbes Researchers

Joshua R. Smith Principal Investigator

Lillian Chang, Postdoc, CSE

Liang-Ting Jiang PhD Student, ME

Griffin Nicoll, Sensor Systems Undergrad

Vibinash Thomas, Sensor Systems Undergrad

Partners  

Neural Systems Laboratory

Robotics and State Estimation Lab

Willow Garage

Press

Meet Marvin, The Robot that Can Plug Itself In, The Times (UK), Jan 25, 2010.

Robots That Sense Before They Touch, Technolgy Review, 2007. Click here for video.

Publications

Gambit: An Autonomous Chess-Playing Manipulator, Cynthia Matuszek, Brian Mayton, Roberto Aimi, Lifeng Bo, Marc Peter Deisenroth, Robert Chu, Michael Kung, Joshua R. Smith, Dieter Fox, To appear, Proceedings of ICRA, Shanghai, China, May 9-13, 2011.

Robot, Feed Thyself: Plugging in to Unmodified Electrical Outlets by Sensing Emitted AC Electric Fields, Brian Mayton, Louis LeGrand, Joshua R. Smith. Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2010).

An Electric Field Pretouch System for Grasping and Co-Manipulation, Brian Mayton, Louis LeGrand, Joshua R. Smith, Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2010).

Human-Guided Grasp Measures Improve Grasp Robustness on a Physical Robot, Ravi Balasubramanian, Ling Xu, Peter Brook, Joshua R. Smith, Yoky Matsuoka, Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2010).

A Spotlight on Security and Privacy Risks with Future Household Robots: Attacks and Lessons, Tamara Denning, Cynthia Matuszek, Karl Koscher, Joshua R. Smith, Tadayoshi Kohno. In the Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp 2009), September 30th -- October 3rd 2009. Click here for FAQ.

Electric Field Serving for Robotic Manipulation, Ryan Wistort, Joshua R. Smith. Proceedings of IEEE/RSJ 2008 International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2008).

Electric Field Imaging Pretouch for Robotic Graspers,Joshua R. Smith, Eric Garcia, Ryan Wistort, Ganesh Krishnamoorthy. IEEE/RSJ 2007 International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2007).