Research

Compliant Sphere Lattice Contact: Distributed Contact Modeling for Sphere-Based Robot Representations

Nataliya Nechyporenko, Ava Abderezaei, Alessandro Roncone (ICRA 2026 CR2 Workshop)

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MorphIt: Flexible Spherical Approximation of Robot Morphology for Representation-driven Adaptation

Nataliya Nechyporenko, Yutong Zhang, Sean Campbell, Alessandro Roncone (IJRR 2026)

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Physically Accurate Rigid-Body Dynamics in Particle-Based Simulation

Ava Abderezaei, Nataliya Nechyporenko, Joseph Miceli, Gilberto Briscoe-Martinez, Alessandro Roncone (Under Review)

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Design, Mapping, and Contact Anticipation with 3D-printed Whole-Body Tactile and Proximity Sensors

Carson Kohlbrenner, Anna Soukhovei, Caleb Escobedo, Nataliya Nechyporenko, Alessandro Roncone (ICRA 2026)

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Compliant Explicit Reference Governor (CERG) for Contact

Yaashia Gautam, Nataliya Nechyporenko, Chi-Hui Lin, Alessandro Roncone, Marco M Nicotra (IFAC 2026)

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Excitation–inhibition interactions mediate firefly flash synchronization

Owen Martin, Nataliya Nechyporenko, Kaushik Jayaram, Orit Peleg (Under Review)

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ARMADA: Augmented Reality for Robot Manipulation and Data Acquisition

Nataliya Nechyporenko, Ryan Hoque, Christopher Webb, Mouli Sivapurapu, Jian Zhang
(Preprint 2025)

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EMOTION: Expressive Motion Sequence Generation for Humanoid Robots with In-Context Learning

Peide Huang, Yuhan Hu, Nataliya Nechyporenko, Daehwa Kim, Walter Talbott, Jian Zhang
(RA-L 2025)

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CAT-RRT: Motion Planning that Admits Contact One Link at a Time

Nataliya Nechyporenko, Caleb Escobedo, Shreyas Kadekodi, Alessandro Roncone (IROS 2023)

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Systematic Evaluation of Obstacle Avoidance and Object-Aware Controllers

Caleb Escobedo, Nataliya Nechyporenko, Shreyas Kadekodi, Alessandro Roncone (IROS 2022)

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A Practical Approach for Picking Items in an Online Shopping Warehouse

Nataliya Nechyporenko, Antonio Morales, Enric Cervera, Angel P. del Pobil
(Applied Sciences 2021)

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UJI RobInLab's Approach to the Amazon Robotics Challenge 2017

Angel P. del Pobil, Majid Kassawat, Angel J. Duran, Monica Arias, Nataliya Nechyporenko, ..., Gabriel Recatala (MFI 2017).

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A Deep Learning Approach for Underwater Image Enhancement

Javier Perez, Aleks C. Attanasio, Nataliya Nechyporenko, Pedro J. Sanz (IWINAC 2017)

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