Chad C. Kessens

25 papers A* 8A 3Journal 11Unranked 3
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2026 J jnl
Toward Learning POMDPs Beyond Full-Rank Actions and State Observability.
CoRR
Seiji Shaw, Travis Manderson, Chad C. Kessens, Nicholas Roy
2025 J jnl
Electrostatic Clutches Enable High-Force Mechanical Multiplexing: Demonstrating Single-Motor Full-Actuation of a 4-DoF Hand.
CoRR
Timothy E. Amish, Jeffrey T. Auletta, Chad C. Kessens, Joshua R. Smith, Jeffrey I. Lipton
2025 J jnl
FORGE: Force-Guided Exploration for Robust Contact-Rich Manipulation Under Uncertainty.
IEEE Robotics Autom. Lett.
Michael Noseworthy, Bingjie Tang, Bowen Wen, Ankur Handa, Chad C. Kessens, Nicholas Roy, Dieter Fox, Fabio Ramos, Yashraj Narang, Iretiayo Akinola
2024 J jnl
A Fractal Suction-Based Robotic Gripper for Versatile Grasping.
IEEE Robotics Autom. Lett.
Patrick O'Brien, Jakub F. Kowalewski, Chad C. Kessens, Jeffrey Ian Lipton
2024 A* conf
Amortized Inference for Efficient Grasp Model Adaptation.
ICRA
Michael Noseworthy, Seiji Shaw, Chad C. Kessens, Nicholas Roy
2024 A* conf
Johnsen-Rahbek Capstan Clutch: A High Torque Electrostatic Clutch.
ICRA
Timothy E. Amish, Jeffrey T. Auletta, Chad C. Kessens, Joshua R. Smith, Jeffrey I. Lipton
2024 — conf
Modeling and Simulation Technologies for Effective Multi-agent Research.
HCI (24)
Kristin E. Schaefer, Ralph W. Brewer, Joshua Wickwire, Rosario Scalise, Chad C. Kessens
2024 A* conf
Toward Self-Righting and Recovery in the Wild: Challenges and Benchmarks.
ICRA
Rosario Scalise, Ege Caglar, Byron Boots, Chad C. Kessens
2023 J jnl
Johnsen-Rahbek Capstan Clutch: A High Torque Electrostatic Clutch.
CoRR
Timothy E. Amish, Jeffrey T. Auletta, Chad C. Kessens, Joshua R. Smith, Jeffrey I. Lipton
2022 J jnl
Human-Scale Mobile Manipulation Using RoMan.
Field Robotics
Chad C. Kessens, Matthew Kaplan, Trevor Rocks, Philip R. Osteen, John G. Rogers, Ethan Stump, Arnon Hurwitz, Jonathan Fink, Long Quang, Mark Gonzalez, Jaymit Patel, Michael Diblasi, Shiyani Patel, Matthew Weiker, Dilip Patel, Joseph Bowkett, Renaud Detry, Sisir Karumanchi, Larry H. Matthies, Joel Burdick, Yash Oza, Aditya Agarwal, Andrew Dornbush, Dhruv Saxena, Maxim Likhachev, Karl Schmeckpeper, Kostas Daniilidis, Ajinkya Kamat, Aditya Mandalika, Sanjiban Choudhury, Siddhartha S. Srinivasa
2022 J jnl
Robotics CTA: 10 Years of Integration, Assessment, and Lessons Learned.
Field Robotics
Long Quang, Marshal Childers, Jonathan Fink, Mark Gonzalez, Arnon Hurwitz, Matthew Kaplan, Craig Lennon, Dilip Patel, Jaymit Patel, Jason L. Pusey, Trevor Rocks, Ed Weller, Chad C. Kessens
2021 J jnl
Fast and High-Quality, GPU-based, Deliberative, Object-Pose Estimation.
Field Robotics
Aditya Agarwal, Yash Oza, Maxim Likhachev, Chad C. Kessens
2021 J jnl
Mechanical principles of dynamic terrestrial self-righting using wings.
CoRR
Chen Li, Chad C. Kessens, Ronald S. Fearing, Robert J. Full
2019 A* conf
Toward Lateral Aerial Grasping & Manipulation Using Scalable Suction.
ICRA
Chad C. Kessens, Matthew Horowitz, Chao Liu, James Dotterweich, Mark Yim, Harris L. Edge
2018 J jnl
An Adaptive Sampling Approach for Evaluating Robot Self-Righting Capabilities.
IEEE Robotics Autom. Lett.
Galen E. Mullins, Chad C. Kessens, Satyandra K. Gupta
2017 J jnl
Mechanical principles of dynamic terrestrial self-righting using wings.
Adv. Robotics
Chen Li, Chad C. Kessens, Ronald S. Fearing, Robert J. Full
2016 A conf
Cockroach-inspired winged robot reveals principles of ground-based dynamic self-righting.
IROS
Chen Li, Chad C. Kessens, Austin Young, Ronald S. Fearing, Robert J. Full
2016 A* conf
Versatile aerial grasping using self-sealing suction.
ICRA
Chad C. Kessens, Justin Thomas, Jaydev P. Desai, Vijay Kumar
2014 A conf
A metric for self-rightability and understanding its relationship to simple morphologies.
IROS
Chad C. Kessens, Craig T. Lennon, Jason Collins
2014 — conf
Compact Hand with Passive Grasping.
ISER
Chad C. Kessens, Jaydev P. Desai
2013 — conf
Proprioceptive sensing for autonomous self-righting on unknown sloped planar surfaces.
ROSE
Jason Collins, Chad C. Kessens, Stephen Biggs
2012 A* conf
A framework for autonomous self-righting of a generic robot on sloped planar surfaces.
ICRA
Chad C. Kessens, Daniel Carlton Smith, Philip R. Osteen
2012 A* conf
Online egomotion estimation of RGB-D sensors using spherical harmonics.
ICRA
Philip R. Osteen, Jason L. Owens, Chad C. Kessens
2010 A* conf
Design, fabrication, and implementation of self-sealing suction cup arrays for grasping.
ICRA
Chad C. Kessens, Jaydev P. Desai
2010 A conf
Utilizing compliance to manipulate doors with unmodeled constraints.
IROS
Chad C. Kessens, Joseph Rice, Daniel Carlton Smith, Stephen Biggs, Richard Garcia