PhD Dissertation Defense - Shihan Lu

Defense title: Analysis, Synthesis, and Perception of Multisensory Feedback in Touch  
 
Committee: Heather Culbertson (Chair), Jernej Barbic, Daniel Seita, Feifei Qian  
 
Date: Thursday, July 11, 2 pm - 4 pm PST  
 
Location: Ronald Tutor Hall of Engineering (RTH) - 306  
 
Zoom Meeting Details: https://usc.zoom.us/j/92142744465?pwd=4N5dBtpYtJ7C80X3pmkFMO1vwWyRjy.1
 
Meeting ID: 921 4274 4465 Passcode: 160570  
 
Abstract:
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Multisensory feedback, including haptic and auditory feedback, is often overlooked in interactive and contact-rich scenarios in the studies with both humans and robots, such as writing on the back of an envelope with a pen or grasping a block in a Jenga game. In this work, I focus on three perspectives related to the multisensory feedback in touch interactions: (1) Analysis – how to extract useful and interpretable features from multisensory feedback; (2) Synthesis – how to simulate realistic virtual feedback; and (3) Perception – how humans and robots respond to the feedback. I explore these perspectives through tasks of texture sound modeling, haptic texture design, large-scale texture classification, and state-aware robot sensing and manipulation. With these tasks, the objective is to enhance the interactive experience in virtual reality, improve the understanding of crossmodal relationships, and complement visual and tactile sensing in challenging robot manipulation tasks. 
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Audiences: Everyone Is Invited  

Location: 306

Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

Contact: Ellecia Williams