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Overview

Charles C. Kemp is affiliated with the Georgia Institute of Technology in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on engineering and computer science, with particular attention to biomedical engineering, control and systems engineering, human-computer interaction, artificial intelligence, and computer vision and pattern recognition.

The researcher has contributed to several main topics within these fields, including:

  • Robot Manipulation and Learning
  • Muscle activation and electromyography studies
  • Tactile and Sensory Interactions
  • Stroke Rehabilitation and Recovery
  • Human Pose and Action Recognition
  • Soft Robotics and Applications
  • Advanced Chemical Sensor Technologies

Charles C. Kemp has published extensively, with papers appearing frequently in venues such as arXiv (Cornell University), IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting, 2022 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), and Ergonomics.

Some recent papers authored or coauthored by Kemp include:

  • "The Design of Stretch: A Compact, Lightweight Mobile Manipulator for Indoor Human Environments" (2022) presented at the 2022 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
  • "BodyPressure - Inferring Body Pose and Contact Pressure From a Depth Image" (2022) published in IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
  • "Immersive participatory design of assistive robots to support older adults" (2024) published in Ergonomics
  • "Bodies Uncovered: Learning to Manipulate Real Blankets Around People via Physics Simulations" (2022) in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters
  • "ContactPose: A Dataset of Grasps with Object Contact and Hand Pose" (2020) published in Lecture notes in computer science

Their collaborations include frequent coauthors such as Henry Clever, Greg Turk, James Hays, Zackory Erickson, and Patrick Grady. These partnerships have contributed significantly to the breadth and depth of Kemp's research output.

Best Publications

  • A Multimodal Anomaly Detector for Robot-Assisted Feeding Using an LSTM-Based Variational Autoencoder

    Daehyung Park;Yuuna Hoshi;Charles C. Kemp

  • Challenges for robot manipulation in human environments [Grand Challenges of Robotics]

    C.C. Kemp;A. Edsinger;E. Torres-Jara

  • Domestic Robots for Older Adults: Attitudes, Preferences, and Potential

    Cory Ann Smarr;Tracy L. Mitzner;Jenay M. Beer;Akanksha Prakash

  • Human-Robot Interaction for Cooperative Manipulation: Handing Objects to One Another

    A. Edsinger;C.C. Kemp

  • Alternative essences of intelligence

    Rodney A. Brooks;Cynthia Breazeal;Robert Irie;Charles C. Kemp

  • EL-E: an assistive mobile manipulator that autonomously fetches objects from flat surfaces

    Advait Jain;Charles C. Kemp

  • The domesticated robot: design guidelines for assisting older adults to age in place

    Jenay M. Beer;Cory-Ann Smarr;Tiffany L. Chen;Akanksha Prakash

  • Robots for humanity: using assistive robotics to empower people with disabilities

    T. L. Chen;M. Ciocarlie;S. Cousins;P. M. Grice

  • A point-and-click interface for the real world: laser designation of objects for mobile manipulation

    Charles C. Kemp;Cressel D. Anderson;Hai Nguyen;Alexander J. Trevor

  • Older Adults’ Preferences for and Acceptance of Robot Assistance for Everyday Living Tasks

    Cory-Ann Smarr;Akanksha Prakash;Jenay M. Beer;Tracy L. Mitzner

  • Identifying the Potential for Robotics to Assist Older Adults in Different Living Environments.

    Tracy L. Mitzner;Tiffany L. Chen;Charles C. Kemp;Wendy A. Rogers

  • ContactDB: Analyzing and Predicting Grasp Contact via Thermal Imaging

    Samarth Brahmbhatt;Cusuh Ham;Charles C. Kemp;James Hays

  • ContactPose: A Dataset of Grasps with Object Contact and Hand Pose

    Samarth Brahmbhatt;Chengcheng Tang;Christopher D. Twigg;Charles C. Kemp

  • Deep Haptic Model Predictive Control for Robot-Assisted Dressing

    Zackory Erickson;Henry M. Clever;Greg Turk;C. Karen Liu

  • SENSING AND MANIPULATING BUILT-FOR-HUMAN ENVIRONMENTS

    Rodney A. Brooks;Lijin Aryananda;Aaron Edsinger;Paul M. Fitzpatrick

  • Reaching in clutter with whole-arm tactile sensing

    Advait Jain;Marc D Killpack;Aaron Edsinger;Charles C Kemp

  • Towards an assistive robot that autonomously performs bed baths for patient hygiene

    Chih-Hung King;Tiffany L. Chen;Advait Jain;Charles C. Kemp

  • An Investigation of Responses to Robot-Initiated Touch in a Nursing Context

    Tiffany L. Chen;Chih-Hung Aaron King;Andrea Lockerd Thomaz;Charles C. Kemp

  • Touched by a robot: an investigation of subjective responses to robot-initiated touch

    Tiffany L. Chen;Chih-Hung King;Andrea L. Thomaz;Charles C. Kemp

  • Multimodal execution monitoring for anomaly detection during robot manipulation

    Daehyung Park;Zackory Erickson;Tapomayukh Bhattacharjee;Charles C. Kemp

  • ContactOpt: Optimizing Contact to Improve Grasps

    Patrick Grady;Chengcheng Tang;Christopher D. Twigg;Minh Vo

Frequent Co-Authors

C. Karen Liu
C. Karen Liu Stanford University
James M. Rehg
James M. Rehg University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Matthew S. Reynolds
Matthew S. Reynolds University of Washington
Sonia Chernova
Sonia Chernova Georgia Institute of Technology
Greg Turk
Greg Turk Georgia Institute of Technology
Lena H. Ting
Lena H. Ting Emory University
James Hays
James Hays Georgia Institute of Technology
Andreas Paepcke
Andreas Paepcke Stanford University
Andrea L. Thomaz
Andrea L. Thomaz The University of Texas at Austin

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