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Nanoparticle Characterization: State of the Art, Challenges, and Emerging Technologies by Cho, Eun Jung, Holback, Hillary, Liu, Karen C, Abouelmagd, Sara A, Park, Joonyoung, Yeo, Yoon

“…Nanoparticles have received enormous attention as a promising tool to enhance target-specific drug delivery and diagnosis. Various in vitro and in vivo…”
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A simulation framework to determine optimal strength training and musculoskeletal geometry for sprinting and distance running by Van Wouwe, Tom, Hicks, Jennifer, Delp, Scott, Liu, Karen C

“…Musculoskeletal geometry and muscle volumes vary widely in the population and are intricately linked to the performance of tasks ranging from walking and…”
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Learning to Navigate Sidewalks in Outdoor Environments by Sorokin, Maks, Tan, Jie, Liu, C. Karen, Ha, Sehoon

“…Outdoor navigation on sidewalks in urban environments is the key technology behind important human assistive applications, such as last-mile delivery or…”
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Lower-limb exoskeletons appeal to both clinicians and older adults, especially for fall prevention and joint pain reduction by Raitor, Michael, Ruggles, Sandra, Delp, Scott L., Liu, C. Karen, Collins, Steven H.

“…Exoskeletons are a burgeoning technology with many possible applications to improve human life; focusing the effort of exoskeleton research and development on…”
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AddBiomechanics: Automating model scaling, inverse kinematics, and inverse dynamics from human motion data through sequential optimization by Werling, Keenon, Bianco, Nicholas A, Raitor, Michael, Stingel, Jon, Hicks, Jennifer L, Collins, Steven H, Delp, Scott L, Liu, C Karen

“…Creating large-scale public datasets of human motion biomechanics could unlock data-driven breakthroughs in our understanding of human motion, neuromuscular…”
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Personalized collaborative plans for robot-assisted dressing via optimization and simulation by Kapusta, Ariel, Erickson, Zackory, Clever, Henry M., Yu, Wenhao, Liu, C. Karen, Turk, Greg, Kemp, Charles C.

“…Robots could be a valuable tool for helping with dressing but determining how a robot and a person with disabilities can collaborate to complete the task is…”
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Learning to Collaborate From Simulation for Robot-Assisted Dressing by Clegg, Alexander, Erickson, Zackory, Grady, Patrick, Turk, Greg, Kemp, Charles C., Liu, C. Karen

“…We investigated the application of haptic feedback control and deep reinforcement learning (DRL) to robot-assisted dressing. Our method uses DRL to…”
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Computer Simulations Imply Forelimb-Dominated Underwater Flight in Plesiosaurs by Liu, Shiqiu, Smith, Adam S, Gu, Yuting, Tan, Jie, Liu, C Karen, Turk, Greg

“…Plesiosaurians are an extinct group of highly derived Mesozoic marine reptiles with a global distribution that spans 135 million years from the Early Jurassic…”
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Synthesis of Responsive Motion Using a Dynamic Model by Ye, Yuting, Liu, C. Karen

“…Synthesizing the movements of a responsive virtual character in the event of unexpected perturbations has proven a difficult challenge. To solve this problem,…”
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On Designing a Learning Robot: Improving Morphology for Enhanced Task Performance and Learning by Sorokin, Maks, Fu, Chuyuan, Tan, Jie, Liu, C. Karen, Bai, Yunfei, Lu, Wenlong, Ha, Sehoon, Khansari, Mohi

“…As robots become more prevalent, optimizing their design for better performance and efficiency is becoming increasingly important. However, current robot…”
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Stair negotiation made easier using novel interactive energy-recycling assistive stairs by Song, Yun Seong, Ha, Sehoon, Hsu, Hsiang, Ting, Lena H, Liu, C Karen

“…Here we show that novel, energy-recycling stairs reduce the amount of work required for humans to both ascend and descend stairs. Our low-power, interactive,…”
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Extracellular stability of nanoparticulate drug carriers by Liu, Karen C., Yeo, Yoon

“…Nanoparticulate (NP) drug carrier systems are attractive vehicles for selective drug delivery to solid tumors. Ideally, NPs should evade clearance by the…”
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Creating a 3D Mesh in A‐pose from a Single Image for Character Rigging by Lee, Seunghwan, Liu, C. Karen

“…Abstract Learning‐based methods for 3D content generation have shown great potential to create 3D characters from text prompts, videos, and images. However,…”
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EDGE: Editable Dance Generation From Music by Tseng, Jonathan, Castellon, Rodrigo, Liu, C. Karen

“…Dance is an important human art form, but creating new dances can be difficult and time-consuming. In this work, we introduce Editable Dance GEneration (EDGE),…”
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Sim2Real in Robotics and Automation: Applications and Challenges by Hofer, Sebastian, Bekris, Kostas, Handa, Ankur, Gamboa, Juan Camilo, Mozifian, Melissa, Golemo, Florian, Atkeson, Chris, Fox, Dieter, Goldberg, Ken, Leonard, John, Karen Liu, C., Peters, Jan, Song, Shuran, Welinder, Peter, White, Martha

“…To Perform reliably and consistently over sustained periods of time, large-scale automation critically relies on computer simulation. Simulation allows us and…”
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Learning Task-Agnostic Action Spaces for Movement Optimization by Babadi, Amin, van de Panne, Michiel, Liu, C. Karen, Hamalainen, Perttu

“…We propose a novel method for exploring the dynamics of physically based animated characters, and learning a task-agnostic action space that makes movement…”
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Ego-Body Pose Estimation via Ego-Head Pose Estimation by Li, Jiaman, Liu, C. Karen, Wu, Jiajun

“…Estimating 3D human motion from an egocentric video sequence plays a critical role in human behavior understanding and has various applications in VR/AR…”
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Visualizing Movement Control Optimization Landscapes by Hamalainen, Perttu, Toikka, Juuso, Babadi, Amin, Liu, C. Karen

“…A large body of animation research focuses on optimization of movement control, either as action sequences or policy parameters. However, as closed-form…”
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Zwitterionic Chitosan–Polyamidoamine Dendrimer Complex Nanoparticles as a pH-Sensitive Drug Carrier by Liu, Karen C, Yeo, Yoon

“…Polyamidoamine (PAMAM) dendrimers have been widely explored as carriers of therapeutics and imaging agents. However, amine-terminated PAMAM dendrimers are…”
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Dexterous Manipulation of Cloth by Bai, Yunfei, Yu, Wenhao, Liu, C. Karen

“…This paper introduces a new technique to synthesize dexterous manipulation of cloth. Given a simple description of the desired cloth motion, our algorithm…”
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