6 papers
BodyPressure -- Inferring Body Pose and Contact Pressure from a Depth Image
Henry M. Clever, Patrick Grady, Greg Turk +1
Contact pressure between the human body and its surroundings has important implications. For example, it plays a role in comfort, safety, posture, and health. We present a method t…
Characterizing Multidimensional Capacitive Servoing for Physical Human-Robot Interaction
Zackory Erickson, Henry M. Clever, Vamsee Gangaram +4
Towards the goal of robots performing robust and intelligent physical interactions with people, it is crucial that robots are able to accurately sense the human body, follow trajec…
Material Recognition via Heat Transfer Given Ambiguous Initial Conditions
Tapomayukh Bhattacharjee, Henry M. Clever, Joshua Wade +1
Humans and robots can recognize materials with distinct thermal effusivities by making physical contact and observing temperatures during heat transfer. This works well with room t…
Bodies at Rest: 3D Human Pose and Shape Estimation from a Pressure Image using Synthetic Data
Henry M. Clever, Zackory Erickson, Ariel Kapusta +3
People spend a substantial part of their lives at rest in bed. 3D human pose and shape estimation for this activity would have numerous beneficial applications, yet line-of-sight p…
Multidimensional Capacitive Sensing for Robot-Assisted Dressing and Bathing
Zackory Erickson, Henry M. Clever, Vamsee Gangaram +3
Robotic assistance presents an opportunity to benefit the lives of many people with physical disabilities, yet accurately sensing the human body and tracking human motion remain di…
3D Human Pose Estimation on a Configurable Bed from a Pressure Image
Henry M. Clever, Ariel Kapusta, Daehyung Park +3
Robots have the potential to assist people in bed, such as in healthcare settings, yet bedding materials like sheets and blankets can make observation of the human body difficult f…