Michael Fulton

Michael Fulton

PhD Candidate at University of Minnesota. I study robots and how they fit into our world.

Thesis Successfully Defended

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I am pleased to announce that, after successfully defending my thesis “Natural, Robust, and Multi-Modal Human-Robot Interaction For Underwater Robots” in front of my committee yesterday, I am now Dr. Michael Fulton! My great thanks to everyone who has supported me through my years at the University of Minnesota! I’m beginning work at Independent Robotics (an underwater robotics company) on Monday!

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HREye paper accepted at ICRA 2023

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I’m pleased to announce that my paper “HREyes: Design, Development, and Evaluation of a Novel Method for AUVs to Communicate Information and Gaze Direction”, has been accepted for publication at ICRA 2023! While I won’t be able to attend due to my impending graduation, I am overjoyed that this paper has been published, particularly given that this was a first attempt at publishing this paper. Read more

Award Result at IROS 2022

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Unfortunately, our paper “Robotic Detection of a Human-Comprehensible Gestural Language for Underwater Multi-Human-Robot Collaboration” did not win best Cognitive Robotics paper at IROS 2022. Congratulations to the other finalists and, of course, the winner! Read more

R2RCVM accepted at IROS 2022

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I’m excited to announce that my paper with Sadman Sakib Enan on Robot-to-Robot Communication via Motion has been accepted for publication at IROS 2022, in Kyoto. I’m even more excited to announce that it’s a finalist for the best paper in Cognitive Robotics! I won’t be attending, but I’m looking forward to the presentation of this paper. Enan developed R2RCVM based on my original implementation of RCVM, and I helped to evaluate his new version by determining that human participants could accurately transcribe gestural conversations between robots. Read more

RCVM accepted at RSS 2022

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I’m pleased to announce that my paper on Robot Communication via Motion has been accepted for publication at Robotics: Science and Systems in New York City. I’ll see you there! Read more