Taşkın Padır is an Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Northeastern University. He received his PhD and MS degrees in electrical and computer engineering from Purdue University. He is the Director of Robotics and Intelligent Vehicles Research Laboratory (RIVeR Lab). He is also the Founding Director of the Institute for Experiential Robotics at Northeastern. His research interests include supervised autonomy for humanoid robots, shared autonomy for intelligent vehicles, and human-in-the-loop control systems with applications in exploration, disaster response, personalized in-home care, and nuclear decommissioning. He is also concurrently an Amazon Scholar with Amazon Global Robotics.
Fun Fact - His first name means flood in Turkish!
Interests
- Human-robot interactions
- Multi-modal sensing
- Experiential robots
Education
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PhD - Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2004
Purdue University
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M.S. - Electrical and Computer Engineering, 1997
Purdue University
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B.S. - Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 1993
Middle East Technical University
Latest
- Systems and Methods for Robotic Grippers With Fiber Optic Spectroscopy
- Mobile MoCap: Retroreflector Localization On-The-Go
- Real-Time Object Localization for Human-Robot Handover
- Sporadic Audio-Visual Embodied Assistive Robot Navigation For Human Tracking
- Deep reinforcement learning based robot navigation in dynamic environments using occupancy values of motion primitives
- Designing a user study for comparing 2d and vr human-in-the-loop robot planning interfaces
- Hyperbot-A Benchmarking Testbed For Acquisition Of Robot-Centric Hyperspectral Scene And In-Hand Object Data
- In-hand object recognition with innervated fiber optic spectroscopy for soft grippers
- Learning Prior Mean Function for Gaussian Process Implicit Surfaces
- Leveraging Submovements for Prediction and Trajectory Planning for Human-Robot Handover
- MOTION: MAV Operated Tunnel Inspection using Object-classification Neural Networks
- Pregrasp object material classification by a novel gripper design with integrated spectroscopy
- Tactile pose estimation and policy learning for unknown object manipulation
- Towards Robot Avatars: Systems and Methods for Teleinteraction at Avatar XPRIZE Semi-Finals
- Vast: Visual and spectral terrain classification in unstructured multi-class environments
- A Soft Durometer for Tactile Sensing
- Collaborative robotics for deformable object manipulation with use cases from food processing industry
- Design of a docking system for cable-driven parallel robot to allow workspace reconfiguration in cluttered environments
- End-to-end grasping policies for human-in-the-loop robots via deep reinforcement learning
- Introvert: Human trajectory prediction via conditional 3d attention
- Multimodal fusion of emg and vision for human grasp intent inference in prosthetic hand control
- Novelti 2.0: Enhanced Assistive Robot Navigation with Low Throughput Interfaces
- Scheduling and path-planning for operator oversight of multiple robots
- Shake and take: Fast transformation of an origami gripper
- Towards automated detection and quantification of concrete cracks using integrated images and lidar data from unmanned aerial vehicles
- A 3d reactive navigation algorithm for mobile robots by using tentacle-based sampling
- A systematic review of virtual reality interfaces for controlling and interacting with robots
- Affordance-based mobile robot navigation among movable obstacles
- CWave: theory and practice of a fast single-source any-angle path planning algorithm
- Towards Designing Benchmarks for Humanoid Space Robots: Northeastern’s NASA Valkyrie Dataset
- Towards End-to-End control of a robot prosthetic hand via reinforcement learning
- Analysis of the space robotics challenge tasks: From simulation to hardware implementation
- Automated damage assessment of critical infrastructure using online mapping technique with small unmanned aircraft systems
- Bright: Benchmarking Research Infrastructure for Generalized Heterogeneous Teams
- From hand-perspective visual information to grasp type probabilities: deep learning via ranking labels
- Human-in-the-Loop Prosthetic Robot Hand Control Using Particle Filters for Grasp Selection
- Hybrid fabrication of a soft bending actuator with casting and additive manufacturing
- Optimization-based human-in-the-loop manipulation using joint space polytopes
- Path planning for socially-aware humanoid robots
- System architecture for autonomous mobile manipulation of everyday objects in domestic environments
- Wheelchairs and other mobility assistance
- A Comparative Analysis of Contact Models in Trajectory Optimization for Manipulation
- A risk informed task planning framework for humanoid robots in hazardous environments
- Comparisons of Adaptive Automation Conditions for Single-Operator Multiple-Agent Control Systems
- Contact-Implicit Trajectory Optimization Based on a Variable Smooth Contact Model and Successive Convexification
- Evaluating robot manipulability in constrained environments by velocity polytope reduction
- Integrating risk in humanoid robot control for applications in the nuclear industry
- Multi-robot scheduling and path-planning for non-overlapping operator attention
- Robot Navigation in a Rich Information Map for Inspection in Nuclear Environments-18596
- Towards Realizing Practical Humanoid Robots One Challenge at a Time
- Using contact to increase robot performance for glovebox d&d tasks
- CWave: High-performance single-source any-angle path planning on a grid
- Towards Cooperative Control of Humanoid Robots for Handling High-Consequence Materials in Gloveboxes--17291
- Atlas in the Cloud
- Cyber-physical systems can make emergency response smart
- Human Supervised Control of a Humanoid Robot for Non-Conventional Emergency Response
- Human-supervised control of the ATLAS humanoid robot for traversing doors
- A comparative study of teleoperated and autonomous task completion for sample return rover missions
- Image stitching techniques for an intelligent portable aerial surveillance system
- Multi-modal control framework for a semi-autonomous wheelchair using modular sensor designs
- Panel: future research trends in robotics technologies
- Robot-assisted home hazard assessment for fall prevention: a feasibility study
- Robotics enabled in-home environment screening for fall risks
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- Brain interface to control a tele-operated robot
- Design and implementation of an intelligent portable aerial surveillance system (ipass)
- Development of modular sensors for semi-autonomous wheelchairs
- GPU-based real-time trinocular stereo vision
- Guest editorial special issue on robotics education
- Hierarchical navigation architecture and robotic arm controller for a sample return rover
- Kinematic control of a planetary exploration rover over rough terrain
- Modular robot arm design for physical human-robot interaction
- Motion control for intelligent ground vehicles based on the selection of paths using fuzzy inference
- Robotics as an Undergraduate Major: A Retrospective
- Security of autonomous systems employing embedded computing and sensors
- The future of human-in-the-loop cyber-physical systems
- Towards a Unified CPS Education: Lessons Learned from a Cross-Disciplinary Robotics Engineering Program
- A taxonomy for user-healthcare robot interaction
- Analysis of a contact problem for tactile sensors and a computationally effective simulation for grasping
- Assessing Multidisciplinary Design in a Robotics Engineering Curriculum
- Design and experimental validation of a mobile robot platform for analog planetary exploration
- Design and realization of an intelligent ground vehicle with modular payloads
- Modular drive system for a planetary exploration mobility platform
- Novel EOD robot design with dexterous gripper and intuitive teleoperation
- The design and realization of a high mobility biomimetic quadrupedal robot
- The emerging role of robotics in home health care
- A unified and integrated approach to teaching a two-course sequence in Robotics Engineering
- An Emerging Threat: Eve Meets a Robot: (Work-in-Progress)
- Development of a laboratory kit for robotics engineering education
- Implementation of an undergraduate robotics engineering curriculum
- Robotics Engineering: Assessing an Interdisciplinary Program
- Robotics Innovations Competition And Conference (Ricc): Building Community Between Academia And Industry Through A University Level Student Competition
- Teaching multidisciplinary design to engineering students: robotics capstone
- A Portable Workcell Design For The Robotics Industry
- Balancing breadth and depth in engineering education: unified robotics III and IV
- Designing an undergraduate robotics engineering curriculum: unified robotics I and II
- Robotics engineering: a new discipline for a new century
- Robotics Engineering: A New Discipline For A New Century
- A portable robotic workcell: Building robotics technology partnerships
- Teaching differential equations in a diverse classroom
- Manipulability and maneuverability ellipsoids for two cooperating underwater vehicles with on-board manipulators
- Kinematic redundancy resolution for two cooperating underwater vehicles with on-board manipulators
- Modelling and control of two cooperating underwater vehicles with on-board manipulators
- Modeling of two underwater vehicles with manipulators on-board