Akhil Padmanabha

According to our database, Akhil Padmanabha authored at least 17 papers between 2020 and 2026.

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2026

Control Without Control: Defining Implicit Interaction Paradigms for Autonomous Assistive Robots.

Janavi Gupta, Kavya Puthuveetil, Dimitra Tsakona, Akhil Padmanabha, Yiannis Demiris, Zackory Erickson

CoRR, March, 2026

WAFFLE: A Wearable Approach to Bite Timing Estimation in Robot-Assisted Feeding.

Akhil Padmanabha, Jessie Yuan, Tanisha S. Mehta, Rajat Kumar Jenamani, Eric Hu, Victoria de León, Anthony Wertz, Janavi Gupta, Ben Dodson, Yunting Yan, Carmel Majidi, Tapomayukh Bhattacharjee, Zackory Erickson

Proceedings of the 21st ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, 2026

2025

In-Vivo Skin 3-D Surface Reconstruction and Wrinkle Depth Estimation using Handheld High Resolution Tactile Sensing.

Akhil Padmanabha, Arpit Agarwal, Catherine Li, Austin Williams, Dinesh K. Patel, Sankalp Chopkar, Achu Wilson, Ahmet Ozkan, Wenzhen Yuan, Sonal Choudhary, Arash Mostaghimi, Zackory Erickson, Carmel Majidi

CoRR, September, 2025

EgoCHARM: Resource-Efficient Hierarchical Activity Recognition using an Egocentric IMU Sensor.

Akhil Padmanabha, Saravanan Govindarajan, Hwanmun Kim, Sergio Ortiz, Rahul Rajan, Doruk Senkal, Sneha Kadetotad

CoRR, April, 2025

Towards Wearable Interfaces for Robotic Caregiving.

Akhil Padmanabha, Carmel Majidi, Zackory Erickson

CoRR, February, 2025

SkinGrip: An Adaptive Soft Robotic Manipulator with Capacitive Sensing for Whole-Limb Bed Bathing Assistance.

Fukang Liu, Kavya Puthuveetil, Akhil Padmanabha, Karan Khokar, Zeynep Temel, Zackory Erickson

Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2025

RoboCAP: Robotic Classification and Precision Pouring of Diverse Liquids and Granular Media with Capacitive Sensing.

Yexin Hu, Alexandra Gillespie, Akhil Padmanabha, Kavya Puthuveetil, Wesley Lewis, Karan Khokar, Zackory Erickson

Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2025

Enhancing Independence with Physical Caregiving Robots: https: //caregivingrobots.github.io.

Rajat Kumar Jenamani, Akhil Padmanabha, Amal Nanavati, Maya Cakmak, Zackory Erickson, Tapomayukh Bhattacharjee

Proceedings of the 20th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, 2025

2024

SkinGrip: An Adaptive Soft Robotic Manipulator with Capacitive Sensing for Whole-Limb Bathing Assistance.

Fukang Liu, Kavya Puthuveetil, Akhil Padmanabha, Karan Khokar, Zeynep Temel, Zackory Erickson

CoRR, 2024

Towards an LLM-Based Speech Interface for Robot-Assisted Feeding.

Jessie Yuan, Janavi Gupta, Akhil Padmanabha, Zulekha Karachiwalla, Carmel Majidi, Henny Admoni, Zackory Erickson

Proceedings of the Adjunct Proceedings of the 37th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, 2024

VoicePilot: Harnessing LLMs as Speech Interfaces for Physically Assistive Robots.

Akhil Padmanabha, Jessie Yuan, Janavi Gupta, Zulekha Karachiwalla, Carmel Majidi, Henny Admoni, Zackory Erickson

Proceedings of the 37th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, 2024

Independence in the Home: A Wearable Interface for a Person with Quadriplegia to Teleoperate a Mobile Manipulator.

Akhil Padmanabha, Janavi Gupta, Chen Chen, Jehan Yang, Vy Nguyen, Douglas J. Weber, Carmel Majidi, Zackory Erickson

Proceedings of the 2024 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, 2024

2023

A Multimodal Sensing Ring for Quantification of Scratch Intensity.

Akhil Padmanabha, Sonal Choudhary, Carmel Majidi, Zackory Erickson

CoRR, 2023

HAT: Head-Worn Assistive Teleoperation of Mobile Manipulators.

Akhil Padmanabha, Qin Wang, Daphne Han, Jashkumar Diyora, Kriti Kacker, Hamza Khalid, Liang-Jung Chen, Carmel Majidi, Zackory Erickson

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2023

SLURP! Spectroscopy of Liquids Using Robot Pre-Touch Sensing.

Nathaniel Hanson, Wesley Lewis, Kavya Puthuveetil, Donelle Furline, Akhil Padmanabha, Taskin Padir, Zackory Erickson

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2023

2021

Force-Sensing Tensegrity for Investigating Physical Human-Robot Interaction in Compliant Robotic Systems.

Andrew R. Barkan, Akhil Padmanabha, Sala R. Tiemann, Albert Lee, Matthew P. Kanter, Yash S. Agarwal, Alice M. Agogino

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2021

2020

OmniTact: A Multi-Directional High-Resolution Touch Sensor.

Akhil Padmanabha, Frederik Ebert, Stephen Tian, Roberto Calandra, Chelsea Finn, Sergey Levine

Proceedings of the 2020 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2020