Nancy S. Pollard

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Publication Activity (10 Years)

Years Active: 1990-2024
Publications (10 Years): 32

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA (PHD)

Education History

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA

PHD

Publications

Pragna Mannam, Xingyu Liu, Ding Zhao, Jean Oh, Nancy S. Pollard
Design and Control Co-Optimization for Automated Design Iteration of Dexterous Anthropomorphic Soft Robotic Hands. RoboSoft (2024)
Pragna Mannam, Xingyu Liu, Ding Zhao, Jean Oh, Nancy S. Pollard
Design and Control Co-Optimization for Automated Design Iteration of Dexterous Anthropomorphic Soft Robotic Hands. CoRR (2024)
Arjun S. Lakshmipathy, Jessica K. Hodgins, Nancy S. Pollard
Kinematic Motion Retargeting for Contact-Rich Anthropomorphic Manipulations. CoRR (2024)
Cornelia Bauer, Nancy S. Pollard
Human-Informed Robot Agility: Understanding Human Pushing Interactions for Skill Transfer to Humanoids. Humanoids (2023)
Arjun Sriram Lakshmipathy, Nicole Feng, Yu Xi Lee, Moshe Mahler, Nancy S. Pollard
Contact Edit: Artist Tools for Intuitive Modeling of Hand-Object Interactions. ACM Trans. Graph. 42 (4) (2023)
Pragna Mannam, Kenneth Shaw, Dominik Bauer, Jean Oh, Deepak Pathak, Nancy S. Pollard
Designing Anthropomorphic Soft Hands Through Interaction. Humanoids (2023)
Pragna Mannam, Kenneth Shaw, Dominik Bauer, Jean Oh, Deepak Pathak, Nancy S. Pollard
A Framework for Designing Anthropomorphic Soft Hands through Interaction. CoRR (2023)
Arjun S. Lakshmipathy, Nicole Feng, Yu Xi Lee, Moshe Mahler, Nancy S. Pollard
Contact Edit: Artist Tools for Intuitive Modeling of Hand-Object Interactions. CoRR (2023)
Dominik Bauer, Cornelia Bauer, Arjun Lakshmipathy, Roberto Shu, Nancy S. Pollard
Towards Very Low-Cost Iterative Prototyping for Fully Printable Dexterous Soft Robotic Hands. RoboSoft (2022)
Arjun Lakshmipathy, Dominik Bauer, Cornelia Bauer, Nancy S. Pollard
Contact Transfer: A Direct, User-Driven Method for Human to Robot Transfer of Grasps and Manipulations. ICRA (2022)
Cornelia Bauer, Dominik Bauer, Alisa Allaire, Christopher G. Atkeson, Nancy S. Pollard
Learning to Navigate by Pushing. ICRA (2022)
Chao Li, Nancy S. Pollard
SoftTouch: A Sensor-Placement Framework for Soft Robotic Hands. Humanoids (2022)
Ryan Coulson, Chao Li, Carmel Majidi, Nancy S. Pollard
The Elliott and Connolly Benchmark: A Test for Evaluating the In-Hand Dexterity of Robot Hands. HUMANOIDS (2021)
Jiatian Sun, Jonathan P. King, Nancy S. Pollard
Characterizing Continuous Manipulation Families for Dexterous Soft Robot Hands. Frontiers Robotics AI 8 (2021)
Arjun Lakshmipathy, Dominik Bauer, Cornelia Bauer, Nancy S. Pollard
Contact Transfer: A Direct, User-Driven Method for Human to Robot Transfer of Grasps and Manipulations. CoRR (2021)
Oscar Dadfar, Nancy S. Pollard
3A2A: A Character Animation Pipeline for 3D-Assisted 2D-Animation. ICIG (3) (2021)
Arjun Lakshmipathy, Dominik Bauer, Nancy S. Pollard
Contact Tracing: A Low Cost Reconstruction Framework for Surface Contact Interpolation. IROS (2021)
Dominik Bauer, Cornelia Bauer, Arjun Lakshmipathy, Roberto Shu, Nancy S. Pollard
Towards Very Low-Cost Iterative Prototyping for Fully Printable Dexterous Soft Robotic Hands. CoRR (2021)
Dominik Bauer, Cornelia Bauer, Jonathan P. King, Daniele Moro, Kai-Hung Chang, Stelian Coros, Nancy S. Pollard
Design and Control of Foam Hands for Dexterous Manipulation. Int. J. Humanoid Robotics 17 (1) (2020)
Christopher Hazard, Nancy S. Pollard, Stelian Coros
Automated Design of Robotic Hands for In-Hand Manipulation Tasks. Int. J. Humanoid Robotics 17 (1) (2020)
André Meixner, Christopher Hazard, Nancy S. Pollard
Automated Design of Simple and Robust Manipulators for Dexterous In-Hand Manipulation Tasks using Evolutionary Strategies. Humanoids (2019)
Christopher Hazard, Nancy S. Pollard, Stelian Coros
Automated Design of Manipulators for In-Hand Tasks. Humanoids (2018)
Cornelia Schlagenhauf, Dominik Bauer, Kai-Hung Chang, Jonathan P. King, Daniele Moro, Stelian Coros, Nancy S. Pollard
Control of Tendon-Driven Soft Foam Robot Hands. Humanoids (2018)
Jonathan P. King, Dominik Bauer, Cornelia Schlagenhauf, Kai-Hung Chang, Daniele Moro, Nancy S. Pollard, Stelian Coros
Design. Fabrication, and Evaluation of Tendon-Driven Multi-Fingered Foam Hands. Humanoids (2018)
Kaiyu Hang, Johannes A. Stork, Nancy S. Pollard, Danica Kragic
A Framework for Optimal Grasp Contact Planning. IEEE Robotics Autom. Lett. 2 (2) (2017)
Michael C. Koval, Matthew Klingensmith, Siddhartha S. Srinivasa, Nancy S. Pollard, Michael Kaess
The manifold particle filter for state estimation on high-dimensional implicit manifolds. ICRA (2017)
Yuzuko C. Nakamura, Daniel M. Troniak, Alberto Rodriguez, Matthew T. Mason, Nancy S. Pollard
The complexities of grasping in the wild. Humanoids (2017)
Michael C. Koval, Nancy S. Pollard, Siddhartha S. Srinivasa
Pre- and post-contact policy decomposition for planar contact manipulation under uncertainty. Int. J. Robotics Res. 35 (1-3) (2016)
Matthew Klingensmith, Michael C. Koval, Siddhartha S. Srinivasa, Nancy S. Pollard, Michael Kaess
The Manifold Particle Filter for State Estimation on High-dimensional Implicit Manifolds. CoRR (2016)
Michael C. Koval, David Hsu, Nancy S. Pollard, Siddhartha S. Srinivasa
Configuration Lattices for Planar Contact Manipulation Under Uncertainty. WAFR (2016)
Se-Joon Chung, Nancy S. Pollard
Predictable behavior during contact simulation: a comparison of selected physics engines. Comput. Animat. Virtual Worlds 27 (3-4) (2016)
Michael C. Koval, David Hsu, Nancy S. Pollard, Siddhartha S. Srinivasa
Configuration Lattices for Planar Contact Manipulation Under Uncertainty. CoRR (2016)
Michael C. Koval, Nancy S. Pollard, Siddhartha S. Srinivasa
Pose estimation for planar contact manipulation with manifold particle filters. Int. J. Robotics Res. 34 (7) (2015)
Se-Joon Chung, Junggon Kim, Shangchen Han, Nancy S. Pollard
Quadratic Encoding for Hand Pose Reconstruction from Multi-Touch Input. Eurographics (Short Papers) (2015)
Michael C. Koval, Jennifer E. King, Nancy S. Pollard, Siddhartha S. Srinivasa
Robust trajectory selection for rearrangement planning as a multi-armed bandit problem. IROS (2015)
Jia Liu, Fangxiaoyu Feng, Yuzuko C. Nakamura, Nancy S. Pollard
Annotating Everyday Grasps in Action. Dance Notations and Robot Motion (2014)
Boris Illing, Tamim Asfour, Nancy S. Pollard
Changing pre-grasp strategies with increasing object location uncertainty. IROS (2014)
Jia Liu, Fangxiaoyu Feng, Yuzuko C. Nakamura, Nancy S. Pollard
A taxonomy of everyday grasps in action. Humanoids (2014)
Laura C. Trutoiu, Elizabeth J. Carter, Nancy S. Pollard, Jeffrey F. Cohn, Jessica K. Hodgins
Spatial and Temporal Linearities in Posed and Spontaneous Smiles. ACM Trans. Appl. Percept. 11 (3) (2014)
Michael C. Koval, Nancy S. Pollard, Siddhartha S. Srinivasa
Pre- and Post-Contact Policy Decomposition for Planar Contact Manipulation Under Uncertainty. Robotics: Science and Systems (2014)
Moslem Kazemi, Jean-Sebastien Valois, J. Andrew Bagnell, Nancy S. Pollard
Human-inspired force compliant grasping primitives. Auton. Robots 37 (2) (2014)
Junggon Kim, Kunihiro Iwamoto, James J. Kuffner, Yasuhiro Ota, Nancy S. Pollard
Physically Based Grasp Quality Evaluation Under Pose Uncertainty. IEEE Trans. Robotics 29 (6) (2013)
Jennifer E. King, Matthew Klingensmith, Christopher M. Dellin, Mehmet Remzi Dogar, Prasanna Velagapudi, Nancy S. Pollard, Siddhartha S. Srinivasa
Pregrasp Manipulation as Trajectory Optimization. Robotics: Science and Systems (2013)
Gayatri Mehta, Krunalkumar Patel, Natalie Parde, Nancy S. Pollard
Data-Driven Mapping Using Local Patterns. IEEE Trans. Comput. Aided Des. Integr. Circuits Syst. 32 (11) (2013)
Michael C. Koval, Mehmet Remzi Dogar, Nancy S. Pollard, Siddhartha S. Srinivasa
Pose estimation for contact manipulation with manifold particle filters. IROS (2013)
Junggon Kim, Nancy S. Pollard, Christopher G. Atkeson
Quadratic encoding of optimized humanoid walking. Humanoids (2013)
Michael C. Koval, Nancy S. Pollard, Siddhartha S. Srinivasa
Manifold Representations for State Estimation in Contact Manipulation. ISRR (2013)
Shervin Javdani, Matthew Klingensmith, J. Andrew Bagnell, Nancy S. Pollard, Siddhartha S. Srinivasa
Efficient touch based localization through submodularity. ICRA (2013)
Moslem Kazemi, Jean-Sebastien Valois, J. Andrew Bagnell, Nancy S. Pollard
Robust Object Grasping using Force Compliant Motion Primitives. Robotics: Science and Systems (2012)
Yue Peng Toh, Shan Huang, Joy Lin, Maria Bajzek, Garth Zeglin, Nancy S. Pollard
Dexterous telemanipulation with a multi-touch interface. Humanoids (2012)
Shervin Javdani, Matthew Klingensmith, Drew Bagnell, Nancy S. Pollard, Siddhartha S. Srinivasa
Efficient Touch Based Localization through Submodularity CoRR (2012)
Junggon Kim, Kunihiro Iwamoto, James J. Kuffner, Yasuhiro Ota, Nancy S. Pollard
Physically-based grasp quality evaluation under uncertainty. ICRA (2012)
J. Andrew Bagnell, Felipe Cavalcanti, Lei Cui, Thomas Galluzzo, Martial Hebert, Moslem Kazemi, Matthew Klingensmith, Jacqueline Libby, Tian Yu Liu, Nancy S. Pollard, Mihail Pivtoraiko, Jean-Sebastien Valois, Ranqi Zhu
An integrated system for autonomous robotics manipulation. IROS (2012)
Daniel Kappler, Lillian Y. Chang, Nancy S. Pollard, Tamim Asfour, Rüdiger Dillmann
Templates for pre-grasp sliding interactions. Robotics Auton. Syst. 60 (3) (2012)
James McCann, Nancy S. Pollard
Soft Stacking. Comput. Graph. Forum 31 (2pt2) (2012)
Alfred Barnat, Nancy S. Pollard
Smoke Sheets for Graph-Structured Vortex Filaments. Symposium on Computer Animation (2012)
Junggon Kim, Nancy S. Pollard
Fast simulation of skeleton-driven deformable body characters. ACM Trans. Graph. 30 (5) (2011)
Alfred Barnat, Zeyang Li, James McCann, Nancy S. Pollard
Mid-level smoke control for 2D animation. Graphics Interface (2011)
Gurdayal S. Koonjul, Garth Zeglin, Nancy S. Pollard
Measuring contact points from displacements with a compliant, articulated robot hand. ICRA (2011)
Junggon Kim, Nancy S. Pollard
Direct Control of Simulated Nonhuman Characters. IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications 31 (4) (2011)
Lei Li, James McCann, Nancy S. Pollard, Christos Faloutsos
BoLeRO: A Principled Technique for Including Bone Length Constraints in Motion Capture Occlusion Filling. Symposium on Computer Animation (2010)
Lillian Y. Chang, Nancy S. Pollard
Estimating subject-specific parameters for modeling hand joints. SIGGRAPH Talks (2010)
Lillian Y. Chang, Siddhartha S. Srinivasa, Nancy S. Pollard
Planning pre-grasp manipulation for transport tasks. ICRA (2010)
Daniel Kappler, Lillian Y. Chang, Markus Przybylski, Nancy S. Pollard, Tamim Asfour, Rüdiger Dillmann
Representation of pre-grasp strategies for object manipulation. Humanoids (2010)
James McCann, Nancy S. Pollard
Local layering. ACM Trans. Graph. 28 (3) (2009)
Lei Li, James McCann, Nancy S. Pollard, Christos Faloutsos
DynaMMo: mining and summarization of coevolving sequences with missing values. KDD (2009)
Paul S. A. Reitsma, James Andrews, Nancy S. Pollard
Effect of Character Animacy and Preparatory Motion on Perceptual Magnitude of Errors in Ballistic Motion. Comput. Graph. Forum 27 (2) (2008)
Remco Chang, Thomas Butkiewicz, Caroline Ziemkiewicz, Zachary Wartell, Nancy S. Pollard, William Ribarsky
Legible Simplification of Textured Urban Models. IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications 28 (3) (2008)
Lillian Y. Chang, Nancy S. Pollard
Thumb Carpometacarpal Joint. IEEE Trans. Biomed. Eng. 55 (7) (2008)
James McCann, Nancy S. Pollard
Real-time gradient-domain painting. ACM Trans. Graph. 27 (3) (2008)
Lillian Y. Chang, Garth Zeglin, Nancy S. Pollard
Preparatory object rotation as a human-inspired grasping strategy. Humanoids (2008)
Lei Li, James McCann, Christos Faloutsos, Nancy S. Pollard
Laziness is a Virtue: Motion Stitching Using Effort Minimization. Eurographics (Short Papers) (2008)
Ying Li, Jiaxin L. Fu, Nancy S. Pollard
Data-Driven Grasp Synthesis Using Shape Matching and Task-Based Pruning. IEEE Trans. Vis. Comput. Graph. 13 (4) (2007)
Christos Faloutsos, Jessica K. Hodgins, Nancy S. Pollard
Database techniques with motion capture. SIGGRAPH Courses (2007)
Jiaxin L. Fu, Siddhartha S. Srinivasa, Nancy S. Pollard, Bart C. Nabbe
Planar batting under shape, pose, and impact uncertainty. ICRA (2007)
Paul S. A. Reitsma, Nancy S. Pollard
Evaluating motion graphs for character animation. ACM Trans. Graph. 26 (4) (2007)
Lillian Y. Chang, Nancy S. Pollard, Tom M. Mitchell, Eric P. Xing
Feature selection for grasp recognition from optical markers. IROS (2007)
James McCann, Nancy S. Pollard
Responsive characters from motion fragments. ACM Trans. Graph. 26 (3) (2007)
Jiaxin L. Fu, Nancy S. Pollard
On the Importance of Asymmetries in Grasp Quality Metrics for Tendon Driven Hands. IROS (2006)
James McCann, Nancy S. Pollard, Siddhartha S. Srinivasa
Physics-based motion retiming. Symposium on Computer Animation (2006)
Remco Chang, Thomas Butkiewicz, Caroline Ziemkiewicz, Zachary Wartell, Nancy S. Pollard, William Ribarsky
Hierarchical simplification of city models to maintain urban legibility. SIGGRAPH Sketches (2006)
Ying Li, Nancy S. Pollard
A shape matching algorithm for synthesizing humanlike enveloping grasps. Humanoids (2005)
Nancy S. Pollard, Victor B. Zordan
Physically based grasping control from example. Symposium on Computer Animation (2005)
Nancy S. Pollard
Closure and Quality Equivalence for Efficient Synthesis of Grasps from Examples. Int. J. Robotics Res. 23 (6) (2004)
Alla Safonova, Jessica K. Hodgins, Nancy S. Pollard
Synthesizing physically realistic human motion in low-dimensional, behavior-specific spaces. ACM Trans. Graph. 23 (3) (2004)
Jernej Barbic, Alla Safonova, Jia-Yu Pan, Christos Faloutsos, Jessica K. Hodgins, Nancy S. Pollard
Segmenting Motion Capture Data into Distinct Behaviors. Graphics Interface (2004)
Paul S. A. Reitsma, Nancy S. Pollard
Evaluating motion graphs for character navigation. Symposium on Computer Animation (2004)
Anthony C. Fang, Nancy S. Pollard
Efficient synthesis of physically valid human motion. ACM Trans. Graph. 22 (3) (2003)
Paul S. A. Reitsma, Nancy S. Pollard
Perceptual metrics for character animation: sensitivity to errors in ballistic motion. ACM Trans. Graph. 22 (3) (2003)
Nancy S. Pollard, Jessica K. Hodgins
Generalizing Demonstrated Manipulation Tasks. WAFR (2002)
Nancy S. Pollard, Richards C. Gilbert
Tendon Arrangement and Muscle Force Requirements for Humanlike Force Capabilities in a Robotic Finger. ICRA (2002)
Michael Gleicher, Michael F. Cohen, Nancy S. Pollard, Jessica K. Hodgins, Michiel van de Panne
Symposium on computer animation in fast forward. SIGGRAPH Abstracts and Applications (2002)
Nancy S. Pollard, Jessica K. Hodgins, Marcia Riley, Christopher G. Atkeson
Adapting Human Motion for the Control of a Humanoid Robot. ICRA (2002)
Jehee Lee, Jinxiang Chai, Paul S. A. Reitsma, Jessica K. Hodgins, Nancy S. Pollard
Interactive control of avatars animated with human motion data. ACM Trans. Graph. 21 (3) (2002)
Nancy S. Pollard, Fareed Behmaram-Mosavat
Force-Based Motion Editing for Locomotion Tasks. ICRA (2000)
Nancy S. Pollard
Simple Machines for Scaling Human Motion. Computer Animation and Simulation (1999)
Nancy S. Pollard
Parallel algorithms for synthesis of whole-hand grasps. ICRA (1997)
Jessica K. Hodgins, Nancy S. Pollard
Adapting simulated behaviors for new characters. SIGGRAPH (1997)
Nancy S. Pollard
Synthesizing grasps from generalized prototypes. ICRA (1996)
Nancy S. Pollard
Planning Grasps for a Robot Hand in the Presence of Obstacles. ICRA (3) (1993)

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