Publications

N. Thompson, A. Kocheril, E. T. Hsiao-Wecksler, and G. Krishnan, “A Soft Active Heart Simulator for Transseptal Puncture Training,” in Proceedings - 2021 Design of Medical Devices Conference, 2021.

M. E. Hernandez, R. Sowers, N. Thompson, G. Krishnan, and E. T. Hsiao-Wecksler, “Body-in-the-loop control of soft robotic exoskeletons during virtual manual labor tasks,” in Virtual Reality: Recent Advancements, Applications and Challenges, L. Bozgeyikli and R. Bozgeyikli, Eds. Gistrup, Denmark: River Publishers, 2020.

N. Thompson, A. Sinha, and G. Krishnan, “Characterizing architectures of soft pneumatic actuators for a cable-driven shoulder exoskeleton,” in Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2019, vol. 2019-May, pp. 570–576.

S. Satheeshbabu, N. Thompson, C. Xiao, and G. Krishnan, “Architectures of soft pneumatic actuators inspired by muscle fiber arrangements,” in RoboSoft 2019 - 2019 IEEE International Conference on Soft Robotics, 2019, pp. 271–276.

N. Thompson, X. Zhang, F. Ayala, E. T. Hsiao-Wecksler, and G. Krishnan, “Augmented Joint Stiffness and Actuation Using Architectures of Soft Pneumatic Actuators,” in Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2018, vol. 5, pp. 1533–1538.ICRA 2019

Presentations

Oral Presentations

“A Soft Robotic Simulator for Transseptal Puncture Training,” Health Care Engineering Systems Symposium and Interactive Medical Simulation Expo, Online, October 15, 2021

“A Soft Active Heart Simulator for Transseptal Puncture Training,” Design of Medical Devices Conference, Online, April 14, 2021

“Soft Robotic Cardiac Transseptal Puncture Simulator,” Health Care Engineering Systems Symposium and Interactive Medical Simulation Expo, Online, October 13, 2020

“Body-in-the-loop control of soft robotic exoskeletons during virtual manual labor tasks,” IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Brisbane, Australia, May 20–25, 2018

“Portable Pneumatically Powered Orthoses,” Center for Compact and Efficient Fluid Power Webinar Series, Online, February 21, 2018

Poster Presentations

“A Soft Robotic Simulator for Transseptal Puncture Training,” American College of Cardiology Illinois Chapter Annual Symposium, Chicago, IL, October 16, 2021

“Integrating Soft Actuators in a Heart Simulator to Mimic Force Feedback in Cardiac Transseptal Puncture,” Health Care Engineering Systems Symposium and Interactive Medical Simulation Expo, Champaign, IL, October 9, 2019

“Characterizing Architectures of Soft Pneumatic Actuators for a Cable-Driven Shoulder Exoskeleton,” IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Montreal, Canada, May 20–24, 2019

“Augmented Joint Stiffness and Actuation Using Architectures of Soft Pneumatic Actuators,” Midwest Robotics Workshop, Chicago, IL, June 14–15, 2018

“Augmented Joint Stiffness and Actuation Using Architectures of Soft Pneumatic Actuators,” IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Brisbane, Australia, May 20–25, 2018

“Soft Robotic Exoskeleton for Shoulder Relief in Manual Wheelchair Users, Preliminary Research”, Midwest American Society of Biomechanics Conference, Grand Rapids, MI, February 23–24, 2017