Lab director
Kenji Shimada
Theodore Ahrens Professor in Engineering
- Department
- Mechanical Engineering, Robotics Institute, Biomedical Engineering
- Computational Geometry
- Mesh Generation
- Computer-Aided Design
- Manufacturing Automation
- Robotics
Publications
The 10 most recent of 116 papers listed on this site.
- Analyzing and testing bimetallic additively manufactured structures for tailored thermal expansion
Rapid Prototyping Journal · 2026
- ASIP-Planner: Adaptive Planning for UAV Surface Inspection in Partially Known Indoor Environments
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2026, accepted) · 2026
- Computational Investigation on the Combined Effect of Applied Strain and Pore Configuration on Strain Concentrators in Additively Manufactured Metals
Fatigue & Fracture of Engineering Materials & Structures · 2026
- Ego2Contact: Predicting Touch from Egocentric Human Video for Contact-Rich Robot Manipulation
arXiv preprint · 2026
- Evaluation of a Novel Educational Three-Dimensionally–Printed, Unstable, Distal Radius Fracture Model for Reduction and Splinting
Journal of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons · 2026
- Material grade-based task planning for robotic limestone mining
Advanced Robotics · 2026
- NavRL++: A System-Level Framework for Improving Sim-to-Real Transfer in Reinforcement Learning-Based Robot Navigation
arXiv preprint · 2026
- Ortho2CAD: 3D CAD generation from orthographic drawings using vision language models
arXiv preprint · 2026
- Pose-aware Legged Robot Semantic Exploration with Omnidirectional Perception in Confined Unknown Environments
arXiv preprint · 2026
- Stress-driven and user-guided Pythagorean-Hodograph print-paths for additive manufacturing
Computer-Aided Design · 2026