Chad C. Kessens

According to our database, Chad C. Kessens authored at least 22 papers between 2010 and 2025.

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2025

FORGE: Force-Guided Exploration for Robust Contact-Rich Manipulation Under Uncertainty.

Michael Noseworthy, Bingjie Tang, Bowen Wen, Ankur Handa, Chad C. Kessens, Nicholas Roy, Dieter Fox, Fabio Ramos, Yashraj S. Narang, Iretiayo Akinola

IEEE Robotics Autom. Lett., May, 2025

Electrostatic Clutches Enable High-Force Mechanical Multiplexing: Demonstrating Single-Motor Full-Actuation of a 4-DoF Hand.

Timothy E. Amish, Jeffrey T. Auletta, Chad C. Kessens, Joshua R. Smith, Jeffrey I. Lipton

CoRR, January, 2025

2024

A Fractal Suction-Based Robotic Gripper for Versatile Grasping.

Patrick O'Brien, Jakub F. Kowalewski, Chad C. Kessens, Jeffrey Ian Lipton

IEEE Robotics Autom. Lett., July, 2024

Toward Self-Righting and Recovery in the Wild: Challenges and Benchmarks.

Rosario Scalise, Ege Caglar, Byron Boots, Chad C. Kessens

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2024

Amortized Inference for Efficient Grasp Model Adaptation.

Michael Noseworthy, Seiji Shaw, Chad C. Kessens, Nicholas Roy

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2024

Johnsen-Rahbek Capstan Clutch: A High Torque Electrostatic Clutch.

Timothy E. Amish, Jeffrey T. Auletta, Chad C. Kessens, Joshua R. Smith, Jeffrey I. Lipton

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2024

Modeling and Simulation Technologies for Effective Multi-agent Research.

Kristin E. Schaefer, Ralph W. Brewer, Joshua Wickwire, Rosario Scalise, Chad C. Kessens

Proceedings of the Virtual, Augmented and Mixed Reality, 2024

2022

Robotics CTA: 10 Years of Integration, Assessment, and Lessons Learned.

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

Field Robotics, March, 2022

Human-Scale Mobile Manipulation Using RoMan.

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

Field Robotics, March, 2022

2021

Fast and High-Quality, GPU-based, Deliberative, Object-Pose Estimation.

Aditya Agarwal, Yash Oza, Maxim Likhachev, Chad C. Kessens

Field Robotics, October, 2021

2019

Toward Lateral Aerial Grasping & Manipulation Using Scalable Suction.

Chad C. Kessens, Matthew Horowitz, Chao Liu, James Dotterweich, Mark Yim, Harris L. Edge

Proceedings of the International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2019

2018

An Adaptive Sampling Approach for Evaluating Robot Self-Righting Capabilities.

Galen E. Mullins, Chad C. Kessens, Satyandra K. Gupta

IEEE Robotics Autom. Lett., 2018

2017

Mechanical principles of dynamic terrestrial self-righting using wings.

Chen Li, Chad C. Kessens, Ronald S. Fearing, Robert J. Full

Adv. Robotics, 2017

2016

Cockroach-inspired winged robot reveals principles of ground-based dynamic self-righting.

Chen Li, Chad C. Kessens, Austin Young, Ronald S. Fearing, Robert J. Full

Proceedings of the 2016 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2016

Versatile aerial grasping using self-sealing suction.

Chad C. Kessens, Justin Thomas, Jaydev P. Desai, Vijay Kumar

Proceedings of the 2016 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2016

2014

Compact Hand with Passive Grasping.

Chad C. Kessens, Jaydev P. Desai

Proceedings of the Experimental Robotics, 2014

A metric for self-rightability and understanding its relationship to simple morphologies.

Chad C. Kessens, Craig T. Lennon, Jason Collins

Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2014

2013

Proprioceptive sensing for autonomous self-righting on unknown sloped planar surfaces.

Jason Collins, Chad C. Kessens, Stephen Biggs

Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Robotic and Sensors Environments, 2013

2012

Online egomotion estimation of RGB-D sensors using spherical harmonics.

Philip R. Osteen, Jason L. Owens, Chad C. Kessens

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2012

A framework for autonomous self-righting of a generic robot on sloped planar surfaces.

Chad C. Kessens, Daniel Carlton Smith, Philip R. Osteen

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2012

2010

Utilizing compliance to manipulate doors with unmodeled constraints.

Chad C. Kessens, Joseph Rice, Daniel Carlton Smith, Stephen Biggs, Richard Garcia

Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2010

Design, fabrication, and implementation of self-sealing suction cup arrays for grasping.

Chad C. Kessens, Jaydev P. Desai

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2010