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Selected Papers in Different Areas


Robot Grasping and Manipulation:
Huang, Y. and Sun, Y. (2015) Generating Manipulation Trajectories Using Motion Harmonics, IROS, 1-6 (in press)

Lin, Y. and Sun, Y. (2015) Task-Based Grasp Quality Measures for Grasp Synthesis, IROS, 1-6 (in press)

Lin, Y. and Sun, Y., Grasp Planning to Maximize Task Coverage, Intl. Journal of Robotics Research, pp. 1-16 (online).

Lin, Y., and Sun, Y. (2015) Robot Grasp Planning Based on Demonstrated Grasp Strategies, Intl. Journal of Robotics Research, 34(1): 26-42.

Sun, Y., and Y. Lin. Modeling Paired Objects and Their Interaction." In New Development in Robot Vision, pp. 73-87. Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2015.

Lin, Y., Sun, Y. (2014) Grasp Planning Based on Grasp Strategy Extraction from Demonstration, IROS, pp. 4458-4463.

Sun, Y., Ren, S., and Lin, Y. (2014) Object-Object Interaction Affordance Learning, Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 62(4), 487-496 (pdf)

Lin, Y., Sun, Y. (2013) Task-Oriented Grasp Planning Based on Disturbance Distribution, ISRR, pp 1-16, (accepted)

Dai, W., Sun, Y., Qian, X., (2013) Functional Analysis of Grasping Motion, IROS, pp. 3507-3513.

Lin Y., Sun Y. (2013) Grasp Mapping Using Locality Preserving Projections and KNN Regression, IEEE Intl. Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp 1068-1073 (pdf).

Ren S., Sun Y. (2013) Human-Object-Object-Interaction Affordance, IEEE Workshop in Robot Vision (WoRV)/Winter Vision Meeting (WVM), pp. 1-6, 2013 (accepted).

Pence W.G., Farelo F., Alqasemi R., Dubey R., and Sun Y. (2012) Visual Servoing Control of a 9-DoF WMRA to Perform ADL Tasks, IEEE Intl. Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 916-922. (pdf)

Lin Y., Ren S., Clevenger M., and Sun Y. (2012) Learning Grasping Force from Demonstration, IEEE Intl. Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 1526-1531. (pdf)

Agrawal A, Sun Y, Barnwell J, Raskar R (2010) Vision Guided Robot System for Picking Objects By Casting Shadows. Intl. Journal of Robotics Research, Vol. 29, No. 2-3, pp. 155-173. (pdf)


Robot/Computer-Human Interaction:
Coovert, M., Lee, T., Shindev, I., Sun Y. (2014) Spatial Augmented Reality as a Method for a Mobile Robot to Communicate Intended Movement, Computers in Human Behavior, 1-10. (accepted)

Christine Bringes, Yun Lin, Yu Sun, Redwan Alqasemi (2013) Determining the Benefit of Human Input in Human-in-the-Loop Robotic Systems, IEEE ROMAN 2013, pp. 1-8 (accepted).

Johnson A., Sun Y. (2013) Spatial Augmented Reality on Person: Exploring the Most Personal Medium, HCI International 2013, pp 1-6 (accepted) (acceptance rate: 31.97%).

Shindev, I., Sun, Y., Coovert, M., Pavlova, J., Lee, T. (2012) Exploration of Intention Expression for Robots, HRI, pp. 1-2, Boston, MA, (pdf).


Medical Imaging and Virtual Reality:
Alzamzmi, G., Goldgof, D., Kasturi, R., Sun, Y., Asmeade T. and Ruiz, G. (2015) Pain Assessment in Infants: Towards Spotting the Pain Expression Based on the Facial Strain, 3rd International Workshop on Emotion Representation, Analysis and Synthesis in Continuous Time and Space, pp 1-4.

Lin, B., Sun, Y., Qian, X., Goldgof, D., Gitlin, R., You, Y., Video Based 3D Reconstruction, Laparoscope, Localization, and Deformation Recovery for Abdominal Minimally Invasive Surgery: A Survey, International Journal of Medical Robotics and Computer Assisted Surgery, pp. 1-16 (accepted).

Lin, B., Sun, Y., Sanchez, J., and Qian, X. (2015) Efficient Vessel Feature Detection for Endoscopic Image Analysis, IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, 62(4): 1141-1150.

Cooke, C., Anderson, A. L., & Sun, Y. (2014) Instantaneous Frequency-division Multiplexing (IFDM): An Analog Multicarrier Approach to Wireless In Vivo Video, Proceedings of the International Conference on Biomedical Engineering and Systems Prague, Czech Republic, pp 1-8. pdf

Johnson, S., Sanchez, J, French, A. and Sun, Y. (2014) Unobtrusive Augmentation of Critical Hidden Structures in Laparoscopy, MMVR, pp 1-4. (in press)

Lin, B., Sun, Y., Qian, X., Sanchez, J. (2014) Vesselness Based Feature Extraction for Endoscopic Image Analysis, ISBI, 1-4.

Lin, B., Johnson, A., Qian X., Sanchez, J., Sun, Y. (2013) Simultaneous Tracking, 3D Reconstruction and Deforming Point Detection for Stereoscope Guided Surgery, MICCAI Workshop MIAR & AE-CAI, pp 1-8.

Lin B., Sun Y., Qian X., (2013) Dense Surface Reconstruction with Shadows in MIS, IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, pp. 1-10 (pdf).

Anderson, A., Lin, B., Sun Y., (2013) Virtually Transparent Epidermal Imagery (VTEI): On New Approaches To In Vivo Wireless High-Definition Video and Image Processing, IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems, pp 1-9 (in Press).

Castro C.A., Smith S., Alqassis A., Ketterl T., Sun Y., Ross S., Rosemurgy A., Savage P.P., and Gitlin, R.R., (2013) A Wireless Robot for Networked Laparoscopy, IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, pp 1-7 (online).

Alqassis A., Castro C., Ketterl T., Sun Y., Gitlin R., Smith S., and Savage P. (2013) Laparo-Endoscopic Single Site Surgery using MARVEL--- a Novel Wireless Robotic Video Platform, IEEE Workshop in Robot Vision (WoRV)/Winter Vision Meeting (WVM), pp. 1-6, (accepted).

Lin B., Sun Y., Qian X., (2013) Thin Plate Spline Feature Point Matching for Organ Surfaces in Minimally Invasive Surgery Imaging, SPIE Medical Imaging, pp. 1-6 (accepted, oral presentation).

Alqassis A., Ketterl T., Castro C., Gitlin R., Ross S., Sun Y. and Rosemurgy A., (2012) MARVEL In Vivo Wireless Video System, Technology and Innovation, 14(3-4), pp. 329-340.

Castro C.A., Smith S., Alqassis A., Ketterl T., Sun Y, Ross S., Rosemurgy A., Savage P.P., and Gitlin R.D., (2012) MARVEL: A Wireless Miniature Anchored Robotic Videoscope for Expedited Laparoscopy, IEEE Intl. Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 2926-2931. (pdf)

Sun Y. Anderson A, Castro C, Lin B, Gitlin R (2011) Virtually Transparent Epidermal Imagery for Laparo-Endoscopic Single-Site Surgery, International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC'11), pp. 2107-2110, Boston, MA, USA, August 30 - September 3, 2011. (pdf)


Haptics and Force Sensing:
Grieve, T., Sun, Y., Hollerbach, J.M., and Mascaro, S.A. (2011) Force prediction using fingernail imaging: an overview, Informatics in Control, Automation, and Robotics, Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, Volume 89, Part 1, 37-48, J. Andrade Cetto, J.-L. Ferrier and J. Filipe (eds), Springer. (pdf)

Lin Y, Sun Y (2011) 5-D Force Control System for Fingernail Imaging Calibration, IEEE Intl. Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 1374-1379 (pdf)

Sun Y (2011) Fingertip Force and Contact Position and Orientation Sensor, IEEE Intl. Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 1114-1119 (pdf)

Grieve T, Lincoln L, Sun Y, Hollerbach JM, Mascaro SA (2010) 3D Force Prediction Using Fingernail Imaging with Automated Calibration, Proc Intl. Symposium on Haptic Interfaces for Virtual Environment and Teleoperator Systems, pp. 113-120. (pdf)

Sun Y, Hollerbach JM, Mascaro S.A (2009) Finger force direction estimation with computer vision. IEEE Transactions on Robotics, Vol. 25, pp. 1356-1369. (pdf)

Grieve T, Sun Y, Hollerbach JM, Mascaro S.A (2009) 3-D Force control on the human fingerpad using a magnetic levitation device for fingernail imaging calibration. World Haptics Conference, pp. 411-416. (pdf)

Sun Y, Hollerbach JM, Mascaro S.A (2008) Predicting fingertip forces by imaging coloration changes in the fingernail and surrounding skin. IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, Vol. 55, pp. 2363-2371. (pdf)

Sun Y, Hollerbach JM, Mascaro SA (2007) Imaging the finger force direction. IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, pp. 1-6. (pdf)

Sun Y, Hollerbach JM, Mascaro SA (2007) Eigennail for finger force direction recognition. IEEE Intl. Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 3251-3256. (pdf)

Sun Y, Hollerbach JM, Mascaro SA (2007) Finger force direction recognition by principal component analysis of fingernail coloration pattern. World Haptics Conference, pp. 90-95. (pdf)

Sun Y, Hollerbach JM, Mascaro SA (2006) Measuring finger forces by imaging the fingernail. Proc 14th Intl. Symposium on Haptic Interfaces for Virtual Environment and Teleoperator Systems,pp. 125-131. (pdf)

Sun Y, Hollerbach JM, Mascaro S.A (2006) Dynamic features and prediction model for imaging fingernail to measure finger forces. IEEE Intl. Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 2813-2818. (pdf)


Robot Calibration:
Sun Y, Hollerbach JM (2008) Observability index selection for robot calibration. IEEE Intl. Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 831-836. (pdf)

Sun Y, Hollerbach JM (2008) Active robot calibration algorithm. IEEE Intl. Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 1276-1281. (pdf)












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