Human-Centric Robotics

Thesis Successfully Defended

2023-03-03T00:00:00-08:00

I am pleased to announce that, after successfully defending my thesis “Natural, Robust, and Multi-Modal Human-Robot Interaction For Underwater Robots” in front of my committee yesterday, I am now Dr. Michael Fulton! My great thanks to everyone who has supported me through my years at the University of Minnesota! I’m beginning work at Independent Robotics (an underwater robotics company) on Monday!

HREye paper accepted at ICRA 2023

2023-01-17T00:00:00-08:00

I’m pleased to announce that my paper “HREyes: Design, Development, and Evaluation of a Novel Method for AUVs to Communicate Information and Gaze Direction”, has been accepted for publication at ICRA 2023! While I won’t be able to attend due to my impending graduation, I am overjoyed that this paper has been published, particularly given that this was a first attempt at publishing this paper.

Award Result at IROS 2022

2022-11-01T00:00:00-07:00

Unfortunately, our paper “Robotic Detection of a Human-Comprehensible Gestural Language for Underwater Multi-Human-Robot Collaboration” did not win best Cognitive Robotics paper at IROS 2022. Congratulations to the other finalists and, of course, the winner!

R2RCVM accepted at IROS 2022

2022-08-01T00:00:00-07:00

I’m excited to announce that my paper with Sadman Sakib Enan on Robot-to-Robot Communication via Motion has been accepted for publication at IROS 2022, in Kyoto. I’m even more excited to announce that it’s a finalist for the best paper in Cognitive Robotics! I won’t be attending, but I’m looking forward to the presentation of this paper. Enan developed R2RCVM based on my original implementation of RCVM, and I helped to evaluate his new version by determining that human participants could accurately transcribe gestural conversations between robots.

RCVM accepted at RSS 2022

2022-05-26T00:00:00-07:00

I’m pleased to announce that my paper on Robot Communication via Motion has been accepted for publication at Robotics: Science and Systems in New York City. I’ll see you there!

ADROC accepted at ICRA 2022

2022-02-10T00:00:00-08:00

I’m happy to announce that my paper with Jungseok Hong and Junaed Sattar on the Autonomous Diver-Relative Operator Configuration algorithm (ADROC) has been accepted for publication at ICRA 2022! I’m excited to present this work at ICRA, it describes a novel technique for diver approach by and AUV using only monocular vision. This method includes a rough distance estimation method based on biological priors (diver shoulder width) which has been quite interesting to work with.

RCVM paper accepted for publication in THRI

2021-10-15T00:00:00-07:00

I’m happy to announce that my paper with Chelsey Edge and Junaed Sattar on the method of robot body language communication method I created: Robot Communication Via Motion (RCVM) has been accepted for publication in an upcoming issue of ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction! This paper is nearly 40 pages, and was a labor of love: three studies are described in this paper including a very arduous evaluation of the effect of viewpoint, message content, and robot domain on the effectiveness of RCVM and other communication methods. The paper will be available at some time in the future at https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3495245

Website Initialization

2020-03-17T00:00:00-07:00

Welcome to my personal website! Here you will be able to find up-to-date publications, talks, teaching information, and some information about my research in general. Check back here from time to time if you’d like to learn about what I’m doing. Otherwise, you can check out my github for recent coding projects, my Twitter for recent news and personal opinon, or my Google Scholar/ORCID for another source of research information. If you are interested in contacting me, please DM me on Twitter, or look me up at my current institutional emails.