7 papers
Designing Robots with, not for: A Co-Design Framework for Empowering Interactions in Forensic Psychiatry
Qiaoqiao Ren, Remko Proesmans, Arend Pissens +7
Forensic mental health care involves the treatment of individuals with severe mental disorders who have committed violent offences. These settings are often characterized by high l…
A Dataset and Benchmark for Robotic Cloth Unfolding Grasp Selection: The ICRA 2024 Cloth Competition
Victor-Louis De Gusseme, Thomas Lips, Remko Proesmans +59
Robotic cloth manipulation suffers from a lack of standardized benchmarks and shared datasets for evaluating and comparing different approaches. To address this, we created a bench…
Instrumentation for Better Demonstrations: A Case Study
Remko Proesmans, Thomas Lips, Francis wyffels
Learning from demonstrations is a powerful paradigm for robot manipulation, but its effectiveness hinges on both the quantity and quality of the collected data. In this work, we pr…
Self-Mixing Laser Interferometry: In Search of an Ambient Noise-Resilient Alternative to Acoustic Sensing
Remko Proesmans, Thomas Lips, Francis wyffels
Self-mixing interferometry (SMI) has been lauded for its sensitivity in detecting microvibrations, while requiring no physical contact with its target. Microvibrations, i.e., sound…
Self-Mixing Laser Interferometry for Robotic Tactile Sensing
Remko Proesmans, Ward Goossens, Lowiek Van den Stockt +2
Self-mixing interferometry (SMI) has been lauded for its sensitivity in detecting microvibrations, while requiring no physical contact with its target. In robotics, microvibrations…
Touch and Tell: Multimodal Decoding of Human Emotions and Social Gestures for Robots
Qiaoqiao Ren, Remko Proesmans, Yuanbo Hou +2
Human emotions are complex and can be conveyed through nuanced touch gestures. Previous research has primarily focused on how humans recognize emotions through touch or on identify…