Operator wearing a VR headset and haptic gloves teleoperating a TIAGo robot; close-ups of the gripper grasping soft objects

ICRA@40 — Visuo-Tactile Sensing with Haptic Feedback for Teleoperated Manipulation

Teleoperated TIAGo humanoid with Vive VR, haptic gloves, and visuo-tactile sensors, presented as primary author at ICRA@40, Rotterdam.

Render of the slip-detection teststand with linear actuator and sensor stack

Visuo-Tactile Slip Detection for Teleoperated Manipulation

Master’s research at TU Darmstadt: a multi-sensor teststand and neural networks for detecting and regressing slip in robotic grippers.

HTC Vive tracker mounted on a MANUS glove used for teleoperation

ICRA ViTac Workshop — Visuo-Tactile Sensing with Haptic Feedback

Earlier iteration of the haptic teleoperation system, accepted to the ViTac workshop at ICRA 2024, Yokohama.

Overview of the bin-picking system: robot cell, part bins, and processing pipeline

Bachelor Thesis — Robotic Bin-Picking via Supervised and Imitation Learning

Neural network-based part selection for semi-autonomous bin-picking of radioactive waste, trained on VR teleoperation data. 73% grasp accuracy at +1.2 ms latency.

Franka robot arm drawing with a pen mounted through a visuo-tactile sensor

Tool Contact Force Estimation for Robot Drawing

A pen mounted on a Franka arm through a visuo-tactile sensor; computer-vision algorithms estimate the contact force at the pen tip.

Turtlebot performing autonomous pick-and-place

Robotics 101 — Mobile Robot Pick and Place

Full autonomy stack on a Turtlebot: kinematics, vision, path planning, SLAM, and high-level action planning.

Simulated NAO humanoid robots playing soccer in Gazebo

NaoBot Soccer Challenge

A team of simulated NAO humanoid robots playing soccer; first place in the class competition.

Reconstructed brightness-sensor scan of a card digit next to the OCR result

LEGO Mindstorms Blackjack Robot

An autonomous blackjack dealer built from LEGO Mindstorms: card dispensing, brightness-sensor scanning, and OCR card recognition for four players.