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Bertram Unger
PhD Student

Email address: bju@andrew.cmu.edu

Mailing address:
Carnegie Mellon University
Robotics Institute
5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213

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Current Labs & Groups

Microdynamic Systems Laboratory - Exploring the limits of robotics in terms of speed, precision, dexterity and miniaturization.

Current Projects

Magnetic Levitation Haptic Consortium - Low-cost, high-fidelity haptic magnetic levitation haptic interface systems for use by a consortium of haptics researchers in the United States	Psychophysics of Haptic Interaction - Quantitative comparisons of human subjects performing peg-in-hole experiments with real, virtual, and real-remote haptic environments
Teleoperation with a 12-DOF Coarse-Fine Manipulator - High-fidelity manipulation of remote environments using a 6-DOF robot equipped with a 6-DOF magnetic levitation fine-motion wrist.

Publications

Note: This list may not be comprehensive. It contains only those publications in the RI publications database. Entries are listed in reverse chronological order.

• Teleoperation Mediated Through Magnetic Levitation: Recent Results
  B. Unger, R. Klatzky, and R. Hollis
  Proceedings of Mechatronics and Robotics (MechRob '04), September, 2004, pp. 1453 - 1457. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [478 KB] copyrighted

• Design and operation of a force-reflecting magnetic levitation coarse-fine teleoperation system
  B. Unger and R. Hollis
  Proceedings of the 2004 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA '04), Vol. 4, May, 2004, pp. 4147 - 4152. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [458 KB] copyrighted

• A Telemanipulation System for Psychophysical Investigation of Haptic Interaction
  B. Unger, R. Klatzky, and R. Hollis
  Proc. Int'l Conf. on Robotics and Automation (ICRA '03), September, 2003, pp. 1253 - 1259. [Abstract]
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• Virtual Peg-In-Hole Performance using a 6-DOF Magnetic Levitation Haptic Device: Comparison with Real Forces and with Visual Guidance Alone
  B. Unger, A. Nicolaidis, P. Berkelman, A. Thompson, S. Lederman, R. Klatzky, and R. Hollis
  Proceedings of the 10th Symposium on Haptic Interfaces for Virtual Environment and Teleoperator Systems (HAPTICS 2002), March, 2002, pp. 263 - 270. [Abstract]
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• Comparison of 3D Haptic Peg-In-Hole Tasks in Real and Virtual Environments
  B. Unger, A. Nicolaidis, P. Berkelman, A. Thompson, R. Klatzky, and R. Hollis
  Proceedings of the 2001 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS '01), Vol. 3, September, 2001, pp. 1751 - 1756. [Abstract]
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