Publications

An Adaptable, Safe, and Portable Robot-Assisted Feeding System.
E.K. Gordon*, R.K. Jenamani*, A. Nanavati*, Z. Liu, H. Bolotski, R. Karim, D. Stabile, A. Kashyap, B.H. Zhu, X. Dai, T. Schrenk, J. Ko, T. Kessler Faulkner, T. Bhattacharjee, and S. Srinivasa.
Companion of the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, 2024.
Best Demo Award Winner

Multiple Ways of Working with Users to Develop Physically Assistive Robots.
A. Nanavati*, M. Pascher*, V. Ranganeni, E.K. Gordon, T. Kessler Faulkner, S. Srinivasa, M. Cakmak, P. Alves-Oliveira, and J. Gerken.
Workshop on Assistive Applications, Accessibility, and Disability Ethics, HRI 2024.

Towards General Single-Utensil Food Acquisition with Human-Informed Actions.
E.K. Gordon*, A. Nanavati*, R. Challa, B. Zhu, T. Kessler Faulkner, and S. Srinivasa.
Conference on Robot Learning, 2023.

Design Principles for Robot-Assisted Feeding in Social Contexts.
A. Nanavati*, P. Alves-Oliveira*, T. Schrenk, E.K. Gordon, M. Cakmak, and S. Srinivasa.
ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, 2023.
Best Design Paper Award Winner

Unintended Failures of Robot-Assisted Feeding in Social Contexts.
A. Nanavati, P. Alves-Oliveira, T. Schrenk, E.K. Gordon, M. Cakmak, and S. Srinivasa.
Companion of the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, 2023.

Balancing Efficiency and Comfort in Robot-Assisted Bite Transfer.
S. Belkhale, E.K. Gordon, Y. Chen, S. Srinivasa, T. Bhattacharjee, and D. Sadigh.
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2022.

Leveraging Post Hoc Context for Faster Learning in Bandit Settings with Applications in Robot-Assisted Feeding.
E.K. Gordon, S. Roychowdhury, T. Bhattacharjee, K. Jamieson, and S.S. Srinivasa.
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2021.

Is More Autonomy Always Better? Exploring Preferences of Users with Mobility Impairments in Robot-assisted Feeding.
T. Bhattacharjee, E.K. Gordon, R. Scalise, M.E. Cabrera, A. Caspi, M. Cakmak, and S.S. Srinivasa.
In ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, 2020.

Adaptive Robot-Assisted Feeding: An Online Learning Framework for Acquiring Previously-Unseen Food Items.
E.K. Gordon, X. Meng, T. Bhattacharjee, M. Barnes, and S. S. Srinivasa.
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2020.

Towards Robotic Feeding: Role of Haptics in Fork-based Food Manipulation.
T. Bhattacharjee, G. Lee, H. Song, and S.S. Srinivasa.
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2019.

Transfer depends on Acquisition: Analyzing Manipulation Strategies for Robotic Feeding.
D. Gallenberger, T. Bhattacharjee, Y. Kim, and S.S. Srinivasa.
ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, 2019.
Best Paper Award Winner for Technical Advances in HRI

Sensing Shear Forces During Food Manipulation: Resolving the Trade-Off Between Range and Sensitivity.
H. Song, T. Bhattacharjee, and S.S. Srinivasa.
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2019.

A Community-Centered Design Framework for Robot-Assisted Feeding Systems.
T. Bhattacharjee, M. E. Cabrera, A. Caspi, M. Cakmak, and S.S. Srinivasa.
International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility, 2019.

Robot-Assisted Feeding: Generalizing Skewering Strategies across Food Items on a Plate.
R. Feng, Y. Kim, G. Lee, E.K. Gordon, M. Schmittle, S. Kumar, T. Bhattacharjee, and S.S. Srinivasa.
International Symposium on Robotics Research, 2019.

Autonomous robot feeding for upper-extremity mobility impaired people: Integrating sensing, perception, learning, motion planning, and robot control.
T. Bhattacharjee, D. Gallenberger, D. Dubois, L. L'Ecuyer-Lapiere, Y. Kim, A. Mandalika, R. Scalise, R. Qu, H. Song, E.K. Gordon, and S. Srinivasa.
Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, 2018.
Best Demo Award Winner