Expertini Research Research

Browse Research Papers

14+ open-access research outputs.

✕ Clear
🔍 manoj kumar 📂 Engineering 📄 Preprint
Showing 14 results for "manoj kumar" in Engineering · Preprint
Engineering Preprint PDF DOI

Learning Human-Intention Priors from Large-Scale Human Demonstrations for Robotic Manipulation

Yifan Xie, YuAn Wang, Guangyu Chen, Jinkun Liu, Yu Sun, Wenbo Ding · 2026

Human videos contain rich manipulation priors, but using them for robot learning remains difficult because raw observations entangle scene understanding, human motion, and embodiment-specific action. …

Read Paper →
Engineering Preprint PDF DOI

Photogrammetry-Reconstructed 3D Head Meshes for Accessible Individual Head-Related Transfer Functions

Ludovic Pirard, Lorenzo Picinali, Katarina C. Poole · 2026

Individual head-related transfer functions (HRTFs) are essential for accurate spatial audio binaural rendering but remain difficult to obtain due to measurement complexity. This study investigates whe…

Read Paper →
Engineering Preprint PDF DOI

UniTacHand: Unified Spatio-Tactile Representation for Human to Robotic Hand Skill Transfer

Chi Zhang, Penglin Cai, Haoqi Yuan, Chaoyi Xu, Zongqing Lu · 2025

Tactile sensing is crucial for robotic hands to achieve human-level dexterous manipulation, especially in scenarios with visual occlusion. However, its application is often hindered by the difficulty …

Read Paper →
Engineering Preprint PDF DOI

Multi-Rigid-Body Approximation of Human Hands with Application to Digital Twin

Bin Zhao, Yiwen Lu, Haohua Zhu, Xiao Li, Sheng Yi · 2025

Human hand simulation plays a critical role in digital twin applications, requiring models that balance anatomical fidelity with computational efficiency. We present a complete pipeline for constructi…

Read Paper →
Engineering Preprint PDF DOI

DexCanvas: Bridging Human Demonstrations and Robot Learning for Dexterous Manipulation

Xinyue Xu, Jieqiang Sun, Jing (Daisy) Dai, Siyuan Chen, Lanjie Ma, Ke Sun, Bin Zhao, Jianbo Yuan, Sheng Yi, Haohua Zhu, Yiwen Lu · 2025

We present DexCanvas, a large-scale hybrid real-synthetic human manipulation dataset containing 7,000 hours of dexterous hand-object interactions seeded from 70 hours of real human demonstrations, org…

Read Paper →
Engineering Preprint PDF DOI

Enhancing Photogrammetry Reconstruction For HRTF Synthesis Via A Graph Neural Network

Ludovic Pirard, Katarina C. Poole, Lorenzo Picinali · 2025

Traditional Head-Related Transfer Functions (HRTFs) acquisition methods rely on specialised equipment and acoustic expertise, posing accessibility challenges. Alternatively, high-resolution 3D modelli…

Read Paper →
Engineering Preprint PDF DOI

FSGlove: An Inertial-Based Hand Tracking System with Shape-Aware Calibration

Yutong Li, Jieyi Zhang, Wenqiang Xu, Tutian Tang, Cewu Lu · 2025

Accurate hand motion capture (MoCap) is vital for applications in robotics, virtual reality, and biomechanics, yet existing systems face limitations in capturing high-degree-of-freedom (DoF) joint kin…

Read Paper →
Engineering Preprint PDF DOI

EEG-Based Decoding of Sound Location: Comparing Free-Field to Headphone-Based Non-Individual HRTFs

Nils Marggraf-Turley, Martha Shiell, Niels Pontoppidan, Drew Cappotto, Lorenzo Picinali · 2025

Sound source localization relies on spatial cues such as interaural time differences (ITD), interaural level differences (ILD), and monaural spectral cues. Individually measured Head-Related Transfer …

Read Paper →
Engineering Preprint PDF DOI

Receding Hamiltonian-Informed Optimal Neural Control and State Estimation for Closed-Loop Dynamical Systems

Josue N. Rivera, Dengfeng Sun · 2024

This paper formalizes Hamiltonian-Informed Optimal Neural (Hion) controllers, a novel class of neural network-based controllers for dynamical systems and explicit non-linear model-predictive control. …

Read Paper →
Engineering Preprint PDF DOI

SoRoTop: a hitchhiker's guide to topology optimization MATLAB code for design-dependent pneumatic-driven soft robots

Prabhat Kumar · 2024

Demands for pneumatic-driven soft robots are constantly rising for various applications. However, they are often designed manually due to the lack of systematic methods. Moreover, design-dependent cha…

Read Paper →
Engineering Preprint PDF DOI

InsMix: Towards Realistic Generative Data Augmentation for Nuclei Instance Segmentation

Yi Lin, Zeyu Wang, Kwang-Ting Cheng, Hao Chen · 2022

Nuclei Segmentation from histology images is a fundamental task in digital pathology analysis. However, deep-learning-based nuclei segmentation methods often suffer from limited annotations. This pape…

Read Paper →
Engineering Preprint PDF DOI

The Hearpiece database of individual transfer functions of an openly available in-the-ear earpiece for hearing device research

Florian Denk, Birger Kollmeier · 2020

We present a database of acoustic transfer functions of the Hearpiece, an openly available multi-microphone multi-driver in-the-ear earpiece for hearing device research. The database includes HRTFs fo…

Read Paper →
Engineering Preprint PDF DOI

Clock synchronization over networks -- Identifiability of the sawtooth model

Pol del Aguila Pla, Lissy Pellaco, Satyam Dwivedi, Peter Handel, Joakim Jalden · 2019

In this paper, we analyze the two-node joint clock synchronization and ranging problem. We focus on the case of nodes that employ time-to-digital converters to determine the range between them precise…

Read Paper →
Engineering Preprint PDF DOI

A new efficient hyperelastic finite element model for graphene and its application to carbon nanotubes and nanocones

Reza Ghaffari, Roger A. Sauer · 2018

A new hyperelastic material model is proposed for graphene-based structures, such as graphene, carbon nanotubes (CNTs) and carbon nanocones (CNC). The proposed model is based on a set of invariants ob…

Read Paper →