Contact

Joshua R. Smith
Milton and Delia Zeutschel Professor in Entrepreneurial Excellence, Room CSE 582
206-685-2094
jrscs.washington.edu
Robotics, Wireless & Sensor Systems, Ubiquitous Computing
Areas of interest: 

Sensor systems; wireless power; sensing for robotics; ubiquitous computing; personal robotics

Ambient Backscatter: Wireless Communication Out of Thin Air

V. Liu, A. Parks, V. Talla, S. Gollakota, D. Wetherall, J. Smith, SIGCOMM, 2013.

Automatic extraction of command hierarchies for adaptive brain-robot interfacing

M. Bryan, G. Nicoll, V. Thomas, M. Chung, J.R. Smith, R.P.N. Rao, Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2012 IEEE International Conference on, 2012.

Seashell Effect Pretouch Sensing for Robotic Grasping

L.T. Jiang, J.R. Smith, ICRA, 2012.

Interactive singulation of objects from a pile

L. Chang, J. Smith, D. Fox, ICRA, 2012.

http://www.cs.washington.edu/ai/Mobile_Robotics/postscripts/object-singu... PDF

Promise of unrestricted mobility and freedom with wireless powering of a Ventricular Assist Device (VAD)

B. Waters, A. Sample, J. Smith, P. Bonde, 19th congress of the International Society of Rotary Blood Pumps, 2011.

Innovative Free-range Resonant Electrical Energy Delivery System (FREE-D System) for a Ventricular Assist Device Using Wireless Power

J. Smith, A. Sample, B. Waters, Y. Toyoda, R.L. Kormos, P. Bond, ASAIO Journal 57, 2011.

Numerical Electromagnetic Analysis of Human Exposure for Wireless Power Transfer Systems

A. Christ, M.G. Douglas, J. Roman, E.B. Cooper, A.P. Sample, J.R. Smith, N. Kuster, Proceedings of the Tenth International Congress of the European Bioelectromagnetics Association (EBEA 2011), 2011.

Photovoltaic Enhanced UHF RFID Tag Antennas for Dual Purpose Energy Harvesting

A. Sample, A. Parks, J.R. Smith, IEEE RFID, 2011.

Powering a Ventricular Assist Device (VAD) With the Free-Range Resonant Electrical Energy Delivery (FREE-D) System

B.H. Waters, A.P. Sample, P. Bonde,  Joshua R. Smith, Proceedings of the IEEE  PP:99, 2011.

Gambit: An Autonomous Chess Playing Manipulator

C. Matuszek, B. Mayton, R. Aimi, L. Bo, M. Deisenroth, R. Chu, M. Kung, L. LeGrand, J. Smith, D. Fox, ICRA, 2011.

http://www.cs.washington.edu/ai/Mobile_Robotics/postscripts/chess-icra-1... PDF

Seashell Effect Pretouch for Robot Grasping

L.T. Jiang, J.R. Smith, IROS 2011 PR2 Workshop, 2011.

http://sensor.cs.washington.edu/pretouch/pubs/iros11_pr2.pdf PDF

An Adaptive Brain-Computer Interface for Humanoid Robot Control

M. Bryan, J. Green,  Mike Chung, R. Scherer, L. Chang, J.R. Smith, R. Rao, IEEE Humanoids, 2011.

RFID: From Supply Chains to Sensor Nets

S. Roy, V. Jandhyala, J.R. Smith, D.J. Wetherall, B.P. Otis, R. Chakraborty, M. Buettner, D.J. Yeager, Y.C. Ko, A.P. Sample, Proceedings of the IEEE 98:9, 2010.

An Electric Field Pretouch System for Grasping and Co-Manipulation

B. Mayton, L. LeGrand, J.R. Smith, Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2010.

Robot, Feed Thyself: Plugging in to Unmodified Electrical Outlets by Sensing Emitted AC Electric Fields

B. Mayton, L. LeGrand, J.R. Smith, Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2010.

Human-Guided Grasp Measures Improve Grasp Robustness on a Physical Robot

R. Balasubramanian, L. Xu, P. Brook, J.R. Smith, Y. Matsuoka, Yoky Matsuoka, 2010.

A Spotlight on Security and Privacy Risks with Future Household Robots: Attacks and Lessons

T. Denning, C. Matuszek, K. Koscher, J. Smith, T. Kohno, International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing, 2009.

A Spotlight on Security and Privacy Risks with Future Household Robots: Attacks and Lessons

T. Denning, C. Matuszek, K. Koscher, J.R. Smith, T. Kohno, Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing, 2009.

Experimental Results with two Wireless Power Transfer Systems

A. Sample, J.R. Smith, IEEE Radio and Wireless Symposium, 2009.

http://sensor.cs.washington.edu/pubs/WISP-WARP.pdf PDF

A Capacitive Touch Interface for Passive RFID Tags

A.P. Sample, D.J. Yeager, J.R. Smith, Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE International Conference on RFID, 2009.  

Winner of Best Paper Award

Design of an RFID-Based Battery-Free Programmable Sensing Platform

A.P. Sample, D.J. Yeager, P.S. Powledge, A.V. Mamishev, J.R. Smith, IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement 57:11, 2008.

http://sensor.cs.washington.edu/2008-TIM-DesignRFIDBasedBatteryFree.pdf PDF

RFID Sensor Networks with the Intel WISP

M. Buettner, B. Greenstein, R. Prasad, A. Sample, J.R. Smith, D. Yeager, D. Wetherall, 6th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems, 2008.  

Winner of Best Demo award

http://sensor.cs.washington.edu/WISP-Demo.pdf PDF

Electric Field Servoing for Robotic Manipulation

R. Wistort, J.R. Smith, Proceedings of IEEE/RSJ 2008 International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2008.

http://sensor.cs.washington.edu/2008-IROS-EF-Servoing.pdf PDF

Electric Field Imaging Pretouch for Robotic Graspers

J.R. Smith, E. Garcia, R. Wistort, G. Krishnamoorthy, IEEE/RSJ 2007 International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2007.

http://sensor.cs.washington.edu/pubs/EF-Pretouch-IROS07.pdf PDF

A wirelessly powered platform for sensing and computation

J.R. Smith, A. Sample, P. Powledge, A. Mamishev, S. Roy, Proceedings of Ubicomp 2006: 8th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing, 2006.

http://sensor.cs.washington.edu/pubs/WISP-Ubicomp-06.pdf PDF

Analysis, Experimental Results, and Range Adaptation of Magnetically Coupled Resonators for Wireless Power Transfer

A.P. Sample, D.T. Meyer, J.R. Smith, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, 0.

http://sensor.cs.washington.edu/pubs/WREL-paper.pdf PDF