KH
Kris Hauser
Principal Investigator
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
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9 months ago
Robotics, AI, Soft Manipulation, Tactile Sensing, Agricultural Systems
About
Works across CS, EE, and ME on AI-driven robots that perceive and interact with deformable objects. Contributes to multi-institution efforts including AIFARMS ($20M), COALESCE ($2M), and RobInHighTs ($1M) advancing agricultural automation.
Particle-Grid Neural Dynamics for Learning Deformable Object Models from RGB-D Videos
arXiv (Cornell University)
•2025
A Low-Cost Articulated Arm Navigation System for External Ventricular Drain Placement
IEEE Transactions on Medical Robotics and Bionics
•2025
Autonomous Excavation of Challenging Terrain using Oscillatory
Primitives and Adaptive Impedance Control
arXiv (Cornell University)
•2024
Safe Leaf Manipulation for Accurate Shape and Pose Estimation of
Occluded Fruits
arXiv (Cornell University)
•2024
Few-shot Scooping Under Domain Shift via Simulated Maximal Deployment
Gaps
arXiv (Cornell University)
•2024
Structured Bayesian Meta-Learning for Data-Efficient Visual-Tactile Model Estimation
Robotics: Science and Systems
•2024
Estimating Tactile Models of Heterogeneous Deformable Objects in Real Time
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
•2023
Towards autonomous berry harvesting using visual servoing of soft continuum arm
AI for Agriculture and Food Systems
•2022
A Berry Picking Robot With A Hybrid Soft-Rigid Arm: Design and Task Space Control
Robotics: Science and Systems
•2020
Robotics Integrated High Tunnels (RobInHighTs): Creating profitable food oases in urban ecosystems”
US Department of Agriculture
•$1,000,000
•2023
AIFARMS: Artificial Intelligence for Future Agricultural Resilience, Management, and Sustainability Institute
US Department of Agriculture
•$20,000,000
•2021
CPS: FRONTIER: COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: COALESCE: CONTEXT AWARE LEARNING FOR SUSTAINABLE CYBER-AGRICULTURAL SYSTEMS
US Department of Agriculture
•$2,000,000
•2021
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