Kyle B. Reed
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I began working in the Laboratory for Intelligent Mechanical Systems in the Fall of 2002. I defended my Masters Thesis in December, 2004 and defended my Ph.D. Dissertation in May, 2007. As of September, 2007, I am a Postdoctoral Fellow at Johns Hopkins University working on medical robotics in the Haptics Exploration and LIMBS labs.

My work at Northwestern focused on Human-Robot-Human interaction, which is an area that can be applied to a wide range of tasks from teleoperation to physical therapy. Briefly put, I studied how two people physically interact with each other through an object. An example of this would be exchanging a glass of water or moving a bed together.

Born and raised in Los Alamos, NM, I received my B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville (UTK) in 2001. I spent four summers during college working at Los Alamos National Laboratory. In the summers of 1998 and 1999 I developed simulation code in Java modeling the effects of explosions on underground structures. During the summers of 2000 and 2001, I developed and analyzed finite element models of an explosion containment vessel. During my Junior and Senior years of college, I was an undergraduate teaching assistant in the Freshman Engineering Program at UTK.

 

Robotics engineer, human robot interaction

www.KyleReed.com


Here is: Publications:
  • Kyle B. Reed. "Understanding the Haptic Interactions of Working Together," Ph.D. Thesis, Northwestern University, June 2007. [pdf or abstract]

  • Kyle Reed, James Patton, Michael Peshkin. "Replicating Human-Human Physical Interaction," Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Rome, April 2007. [full pdf or abstract]

  • Kyle B. Reed, Mitra J. Hartmann, James Patton, Peter M. Vishton, Marcia Grabowecky, and Michael Peshkin. "Haptic cooperation between people, and between people and machines," Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Beijing, October 2006. [abstract or full pdf or video presentation]

  • Kyle Reed, Michael Peshkin, Mitra J. Hartmann, Marcia Grabowecky, James Patton, and Peter M. Vishton. "Haptically Linked Dyads: Are Two Motor-Control Systems Better Than One?" Psychological Science, Vol. 17, Num 5, pp.365-366, May, 2006. [full pdf or Press Release]

  • Kyle B. Reed, Michael Peshkin, Mitra J. Hartmann, J. Edward Colgate, and James Patton. "Kinesthetic Interaction," Proc. of the 9th Int. Conf. on Rehabilitation Robotics (ICORR '05), Chicago, IL, June, 2005. [full pdf or abstract]

  • Kyle B. Reed. "Specialization in Dyadic Shared Manual Tasks," Masters Thesis, Northwestern University, December 2004. [full pdf or abstract]

  • Kyle Reed, Michael Peshkin, J. Edward Colgate, and James Patton. "Initial Studies in Human-Robot-Human Interaction: Fitts' Law for Two People," Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), New Orleans, April 2004. [full pdf or abstract]
If you would like to find out more about me, please visit my personal web page.

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Here is my presentation for the Graphics Seminar.

 

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