Bruce A. MacDonald
Publication record assembled from the DBLP archive of ranked conferences.
Papers indexed
69
Venues
14
Active years
2002–2025
Best venue rank
A*
Where they publish
Papers
69 indexed papers, newest first.
| Year | Venue | Title | Authors |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | AAAI | CTD4 - a Deep Continuous Distributional Actor-Critic Agent with a Kalman Fusion of Multiple Critics. | David Valencia, Henry Williams, Yuning Xing, Trevor Gee, Bruce A. MacDonald, Minas Liarokapis |
| 2025 | HRI | Using Social Robots to Enhance Cognitive Health in Older Adults with Mild Cognitive Impairment. | Yuan Gao, Ngaire Kerse, Bruce A. MacDonald, Elizabeth Broadbent |
| 2025 | HRI | SignPepper: Multimodal Social Robot for Sign Language Teaching. | Edmond Liu, Jong Yoon Lim, Vineeth Johnson, Bruce A. MacDonald, Ho Seok Ahn |
| 2025 | ICRA | How About Them Apples: 3D Pose and Cluster Estimation of Apple Fruitlets in a Commercial Orchard. | Ans Qureshi, David Smith, Trevor Gee, Ho Seok Ahn, Ben McGuinness, Catherine Downes, Rahul Jangali, Kale Black, Hin Lim, Mike Duke, Bruce A. MacDonald, Henry Williams |
| 2025 | IROS | OrchardDepth++: Binned KL-Flood Regularization for Monocular Depth Estimation of Orchard Scene. | Zhichao Zheng, Henry Williams, Trevor Gee, Bruce A. MacDonald |
| 2025 | RO-MAN | Optimization of Two-Stage Facial Expression Mimicking Systems: Enhancing Emotional Representation in the EveR-4 H22 Robot. | Minwoo Lee, Chan Yoo, Bruce A. MacDonald, Ho Seok Ahn |
| 2025 | RO-MAN | DeepSignV1: Pretrained Vision Transformer for Isolated Sign Language Recognition. | Edmond Liu, Bruce A. MacDonald, Ho Seok Ahn |
| 2025 | RO-MAN | SignPepper: Machine Learning Powered Sign Language Teaching Robot with Dynamic Lesson Feedback. | Edmond Liu, Finn Tracey, Bruce A. MacDonald, Ho Seok Ahn |
| 2024 | HRI | Social Robots in Hospital Settings: An Initial Exploration of the Services Provided, Interaction Style and in the Field Evaluation. | Norina Gasteiger, Tingting Zhu, Elizabeth Broadbent, JongYoon Lim, Bruce A. MacDonald, Ho Seok Ahn |
| 2024 | IROS | Image-Based Deep Reinforcement Learning with Intrinsically Motivated Stimuli: On the Execution of Complex Robotic Tasks. | David Valencia, Henry Williams, Yuning Xing, Trevor Gee, Minas Liarokapis, Bruce A. MacDonald |
| 2024 | IROS | Archie Snr: A Robotic Platform for Autonomous Apple Fruitlet Thinning. | Henry Williams, Ans H. Qureshi, David Smith, Trevor Gee, Ben McGuinness, Rahul Jangali, Kale Black, Scott Harvey, Catherine Downes, Hin Lim, Richard Oliver, Mike Duke, Bruce A. MacDonald |
| 2024 | IROS | Archie Jnr: A Robotic Platform for Autonomous Cane Pruning of Grapevines. | Henry Williams, David Smith, Jalil Shahabi, Trevor Gee, Ans Qureshi, Benjamin McGuinness, Scott Harvey, Catherine Downes, Rahul Jangali, Kale Black, Hin Lim, Mike Duke, Bruce A. MacDonald |
| 2024 | RO-MAN | Weighted Multi-modal Sign Language Recognition. | Edmond Liu, Jong Yoon Lim, Bruce A. MacDonald, Ho Seok Ahn |
| 2023 | IROS | A Soft, Multi-Layer, Kirigami Inspired Robotic Gripper with a Compact, Compression-Based Actuation System. | Joao Buzzatto, Junbang Liang, Mojtaba Shahmohammadi, Saori Matsunaga, Rintaro Haraguchi, Toshisada Mariyama, Bruce A. MacDonald, Minas V. Liarokapis |
| 2023 | IROS | Employing Multi-Layer, Sensorised Kirigami Grippers for Single-Grasp Based Identification of Objects and Force Exertion Estimation. | Junbang Liang, Joao Buzzatto, Bryan Busby, Ricardo V. Godoy, Saori Matsunaga, Rintaro Haraguchi, Toshisada Mariyama, Bruce A. MacDonald, Minas V. Liarokapis |
| 2023 | IROS | Seeing the Fruit for the Leaves: Robotically Mapping Apple Fruitlets in a Commercial Orchard. | Ans Qureshi, David Smith, Trevor Gee, Mahla Nejati, Jalil Shahabi, JongYoon Lim, Ho Seok Ahn, Benjamin McGuinness, Catherine Downes, Rahul Jangali, Kale Black, Hin Lim, Mike Duke, Bruce A. MacDonald, Henry Williams |
| 2023 | ICRA | Comparison of Model-Based and Model-Free Reinforcement Learning for Real-World Dexterous Robotic Manipulation Tasks. | David Valencia, John Jia, Raymond Li, Alex Hayashi, Megan Lecchi, Reuel Terezakis, Trevor Gee, Minas V. Liarokapis, Bruce A. MacDonald, Henry Williams |
| 2023 | RO-MAN | Development and Validation of a Motion Dictionary to Create Emotional Gestures for the NAO Robot. | Mehdi Hellou, Norina Gasteiger, Andy Kweon, JongYoon Lim, Bruce A. MacDonald, Angelo Cangelosi, Ho Seok Ahn |
| 2022 | IROS | On Robotic Manipulation of Flexible Flat Cables: Employing a Multi-Modal Gripper with Dexterous Tips, Active Nails, and a Reconfigurable Suction Cup Module. | Joao Buzzatto, Jayden Chapman, Mojtaba Shahmohammadi, Felipe Sanches, Mahla Nejati, Saori Matsunaga, Rintaro Haraguchi, Toshisada Mariyama, Bruce A. MacDonald, Minas V. Liarokapis |
| 2022 | IROS | Soft, Multi-Layer, Disposable, Kirigami Based Robotic Grippers: On Handling of Delicate, Contaminated, and Everyday Objects. | Joao Buzzatto, Mojtaba Shahmohammadi, Junbang Liang, Felipe Sanches, Saori Matsunaga, Rintaro Haraguchi, Toshisada Mariyama, Bruce A. MacDonald, Minas V. Liarokapis |
| 2022 | RO-MAN | Moving away from robotic interactions: Evaluation of empathy, emotion and sentiment expressed and detected by computer systems. | Norina Gasteiger, JongYoon Lim, Mehdi Hellou, Bruce A. MacDonald, Ho Seok Ahn |
| 2021 | ICRA | A Locally-Adaptive, Parallel-Jaw Gripper with Clamping and Rolling Capable, Soft Fingertips for Fine Manipulation of Flexible Flat Cables. | Jayden Chapman, Gal Gorjup, Anany Dwivedi, Saori Matsunaga, Toshisada Mariyama, Bruce A. MacDonald, Minas V. Liarokapis |
| 2021 | IROS | A Dexterous, Reconfigurable, Adaptive Robot Hand Combining Anthropomorphic and Interdigitated Configurations. | Geng Gao, Jayden Chapman, Saori Matsunaga, Toshisada Mariyama, Bruce A. MacDonald, Minas V. Liarokapis |
| 2021 | IVCNZ | Real-time Caustics and Dispersion on Arbitrary Surfaces in GPU-Accelerated Ray Tracing. | Fung Yang, Burkhard Claus Wnsche, Bruce A. MacDonald |
| 2021 | Tencon | ROS Based Heterogeneous Multiple Robots Control Using High Level User Instructions. | U. U. Samantha Kumara Rajapaksha, Chandimal Jayawardena, Bruce A. MacDonald |
| 2020 | ICRA | Demonstration of Hospital Receptionist Robot with Extended Hybrid Code Network to Select Responses and Gestures. | Eui Jun Hwang, Byeong-Kyu Ahn, Bruce A. MacDonald, Ho Seok Ahn |
| 2020 | IVCNZ | Fast Portrait Segmentation of the Head and Upper Body. | Seng Cheong Loke, Bruce A. MacDonald, Matthew Parsons, Burkhard C. Wnsche |
| 2020 | SMC | Combining Programming by Demonstration with Path Optimization and Local Replanning to Facilitate the Execution of Assembly Tasks. | Gal Gorjup, George P. Kontoudis, Anany Dwivedi, Geng Gao, Saori Matsunaga, Toshisada Mariyama, Bruce A. MacDonald, Minas V. Liarokapis |
| 2019 | ICRA | The Doctor will See You Now: Could a Robot Be a medical Receptionist? | Craig J. Sutherland, Byeong-Kyu Ahn, Bianca Brown, Jong Yoon Lim, Deborah L. Johanson, Elizabeth Broadbent, Bruce A. MacDonald, Ho Seok Ahn |
| 2019 | RO-MAN | Hospital Receptionist Robot v2: Design for Enhancing Verbal Interaction with Social Skills. | Ho Seok Ahn, Wesley Yep, Jong Yoon Lim, Byeong-Kyu Ahn, Deborah L. Johanson, Eui Jun Hwang, Min Ho Lee, Elizabeth Broadbent, Bruce A. MacDonald |
| 2018 | IROS | Diversity in Pedestrian Safety for Industrial Environments Using 3D Lidar Sensors and Neural Networks*Research supported by the New Zealand Ministry for Business Innovation and Employment (MBIE) on contract UOAX1414. | Jamie Bell, Bruce A. MacDonald, Ho Seok Ahn |
| 2018 | RO-MAN | Artificial Empathy in Social Robots: An analysis of Emotions in Speech. | Jesin James, Catherine Inez Watson, Bruce A. MacDonald |
| 2016 | IROS | Row following in pergola structured orchards. | Jamie Bell, Bruce A. MacDonald, Ho Seok Ahn |
| 2016 | RO-MAN | User perceptions of soft robot arms and fingers for healthcare. | Dong Hyun Kim, Bruce A. MacDonald, Andrew McDaid, Sadao Kawamura, Hye-Jong Kim, Elliot Thompson Bean, Forest Fraser, Elizabeth Broadbent |
| 2015 | RO-MAN | Healthcare robot systems for a hospital environment: CareBot and ReceptionBot. | Ho Seok Ahn, Min Ho Lee, Bruce A. MacDonald |
| 2015 | RO-MAN | The cost-effectiveness of a robot measuring vital signs in a rural medical practice. | Elizabeth Broadbent, Josephine R. Orejana, Ho Seok Ahn, Jiao Xie, Paul Rouse, Bruce A. MacDonald |
| 2012 | HealthCom | Utilizing a closed loop medication management workflow through an engaging interactive robot for older people. | Chandan Datta, Priyesh Tiwari, Hong Yul Yang, Elizabeth Broadbent, Bruce A. MacDonald |
| 2012 | IROS | RoboStudio: A visual programming environment for rapid authoring and customization of complex services on a personal service robot. | Chandan Datta, Chandimal Jayawardena, I-Han Kuo, Bruce A. MacDonald |
| 2012 | IVCNZ | Using the Kinect as a navigation sensor for mobile robotics. | Ayrton Oliver, Steven Kang, Burkhard Wnsche, Bruce A. MacDonald |
| 2011 | AAAI | Human-Robot Interaction Research to Improve Quality of Life in Elder Care - An Approach and Issues. | Elizabeth Broadbent, Chandimal Jayawardena, Ngaire Kerse, Rebecca Q. Stafford, Bruce A. MacDonald |
| 2011 | ICRA | Generalizing topological task graphs from multiple symbolic demonstrations in programming by demonstration (PbD) processes. | Tanveer Abbas, Bruce A. MacDonald |
| 2010 | ACCV | Real-Time Robust Image Feature Description and Matching. | Stephen J. Thomas, Bruce A. MacDonald, Karl A. Stol |
| 2010 | IROS | Implementing a reactive semantics using OpenRTM-aist. | Geoffrey Biggs, Bruce A. MacDonald |
| 2010 | IROS | Deployment of a service robot to help older people. | Chandimal Jayawardena, I-Han Kuo, Ulrike Unger, Aleksandar Igic, Richie Wong, Catherine Inez Watson, Rebecca McAulay Quinlan Stafford, Elizabeth Broadbent, Priyesh Tiwari, Jim Warren, Joochan Sohn, Bruce A. MacDonald |
| 2010 | RO-MAN | Improved robot attitudes and emotions at a retirement home after meeting a robot. | Rebecca McAulay Quinlan Stafford, Elizabeth Broadbent, Chandimal Jayawardena, Ulrike Unger, I-Han Kuo, Aleksandar Igic, Richie Wong, Ngaire Kerse, Catherine Inez Watson, Bruce A. MacDonald |
| 2009 | ICRA | Mixed reality simulation for mobile robots. | Ian Yen-Hung Chen, Bruce A. MacDonald, Burkhard Wnsche |
| 2009 | IROS | Expressive facial speech synthesis on a robotic platform. | Xingyan Li, Bruce A. MacDonald, Catherine Inez Watson |
| 2009 | RO-MAN | Robust trajectory segmentation for programming by demonstration. | Tanveer Abbas, Bruce A. MacDonald |
| 2009 | RO-MAN | Retirement home staff and residents' preferences for healthcare robots. | Elizabeth Broadbent, Rie Tamagawa, Ngaire Kerse, Brett Knock, Anna Patience, Bruce A. MacDonald |
| 2009 | RO-MAN | Age and gender factors in user acceptance of healthcare robots. | I-Han Kuo, Joel Marcus Rabindran, Elizabeth Broadbent, Yong In Lee, Ngaire Kerse, Rebecca McAulay Quinlan Stafford, Bruce A. MacDonald |
| 2008 | ICRA | An intuitive interface for a cognitive programming by demonstration system. | David Brageul, Slobodan Vukanovic, Bruce A. MacDonald |
| 2008 | IROS | Evaluating a reactive semantics for robotics. | Geoffrey Biggs, Bruce A. MacDonald |
| 2007 | IROS | Human reactions to good and bad robots. | Elizabeth Broadbent, Bruce A. MacDonald, Lana Jago, Meike Juergens, Omar Mazharullah |
| 2006 | HRI | Developer oriented visualisation of a robot program. | T. H. J. Collett, Bruce A. MacDonald |
| 2006 | ICRA | Augmented Reality Visualisation for Player. | T. H. J. Collett, Bruce A. MacDonald |
| 2006 | IROS | Specifying Robot Reactivity in Procedural Languages. | Geoffrey Biggs, Bruce A. MacDonald |
| 2005 | ICRA | Trends in Robot Software Domain Engineering. | Davide Brugali, Arvin Agah, Bruce A. MacDonald, Issa A. D. Nesnas, William D. Smart |
| 2005 | ICRA | Sidebar - Programming Commercial Robots. | Jos Mara Caas, Vicente Matelln, Bruce A. MacDonald, Geoffrey Biggs |
| 2005 | ICRA | A Distributed Real-time Software Framework for Robotic Applications. | Yuan-hsin Kuo, Bruce A. MacDonald |
| 2005 | ICRA | Software Environments for Robot Programming. | Bruce A. MacDonald, Geoffrey Biggs, Toby Collett |
| 2005 | ICRA | A Dynamics Simulation Architecture for Robotic Systems. | Benjamin Moores, Bruce A. MacDonald |
| 2005 | OZCHI | A haptic interface for mobile devices. | Bruce A. MacDonald |
| 2004 | KES | Theoretical Considerations of Multiple Particle Filters for Simultaneous Localisation and Map-Building. | David C. K. Yuen, Bruce A. MacDonald |
| 2004 | PRICAI | Complete Coverage by Mobile Robots Using Slice Decomposition Based on Natural Landmarks. | Sylvia C. Wong, Bruce A. MacDonald |
| 2004 | SIGGRAPH | Embodied time (-) changing our mind. | Julainne Sumich, Bruce A. MacDonald, Kevin Novins, Simon Chui, HsuHan Chiang |
| 2003 | IROS | A topological coverage algorithm for mobile robots. | Sylvia C. Wong, Bruce A. MacDonald |
| 2003 | IROS | Distributed mobile robot application infrastructure. | Evan Woo, Bruce A. MacDonald, Flix Trpanier |
| 2003 | ICRA | An evaluation of the sequential Monte Carlo technique for simultaneous localisation and map-buildin. | David C. K. Yuen, Bruce A. MacDonald |
| 2002 | ICRA | Natural Landmark Based Localisation System using Panoramic Images. | David C. K. Yuen, Bruce A. MacDonald |