Portrait of Kevin Zhang
PhD Student
Home Department: RI
Office: 4511 Newell-Simon Hall
Advisors: Oliver Kroemer and Maria Manuela Veloso
Lab: Intelligent Autonomous Manipulation (IAM) Lab
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Displaying 13 Publications

2025
Low-Cost Multimodal Sensing and Dexterity for Deformable Object Manipulation
Kevin Zhang
PhD Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-25-08, February, 2025
2024
Towards Autonomous Crop Monitoring: Inserting Sensors in Cluttered Environments
Moonyoung Lee, Aaron Berger, Dominic Guri, Kevin Zhang, Lisa Coffey, George Kantor, and Oliver Kroemer
Journal Article, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, September, 2024
DELTAHANDS: A Synergistic Dexterous Hand Framework Based on Delta Robots
Zilin Si, Kevin Zhang, Oliver Kroemer, and Zeynep Temel
Journal Article, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, Vol. 9, No. 2, pp. 1795-1802, January, 2024
2022
Contact Classification for Agriculture Manipulation in Cluttered Canopies
Moonyoung Lee, Kevin Zhang, George Kantor, and Oliver Kroemer
Workshop Paper, AI for Agriculture and Food Systems, February, 2022
2021
Playing with Food: Learning Food Item Representations through Interactive Exploration
Amrita Sawhney, Steven Lee, Kevin Zhang, Manuela Veloso, and Oliver Kroemer
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 17th International Symposium on Experimental Robotics (ISER '20), November, 2021
A Low-Cost Compliant Gripper Using Cooperative Mini-Delta Robots for Dexterous Manipulation
Pragna Mannam, Avi Rudich, Kevin Zhang, Manuela Veloso, Oliver Kroemer, and F. Zeynep Temel
Conference Paper, Proceedings of Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS '21), July, 2021
Carnegie Mellon Team Tartan: Mission-level Robustness with Rapidly Deployed Autonomous Aerial Vehicles in the MBZIRC 2020
Anish Bhattacharya, Akshit Gandhi, Lukas Merkle, Rohan Tiwari, Karun Warrior, Stanley Winata, Andrew Saba, Kevin Zhang, Oliver Kroemer, and Sebastian Scherer
Journal Article, Journal of Field Robotics, April, 2021
2020
A Modular Robotic Arm Control Stack for Research: Franka-Interface and FrankaPy
Kevin Zhang, Mohit Sharma, Jacky Liang, and Oliver Kroemer
Tech. Report, November, 2020
Localization and Force-Feedback with Soft Magnetic Stickers for Precise Robot Manipulation
Tess Hellebrekers, Kevin Zhang, Manuela Veloso, Oliver Kroemer, and Carmel Majidi
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (IROS) IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp. 8867 - 8874, October, 2020
2019
Leveraging Multimodal Haptic Sensory Data for Robust Cutting
Kevin Zhang, Mohit Sharma, Manuela Veloso, and Oliver Kroemer
Conference Paper, Proceedings of IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids '19), pp. 409 - 416, October, 2019