Co-organized RoboCup Workshops at ICRA/IROS conferences:
  1. Pasternak, K., Ferrein, A., Jacoff, A., Leonetti, M., Saidi, K., Schwertfeger, S., Ka-Man Sheh, R., Virts, A.M.. “Shared Challenges in Human-Centered and Resilient Robotic Autonomy”, The 2026 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2026). Workshop.
  2. Pasternak, K., Hart, J., Leonetti, M., Sugiura, K., Visser, U., Wachsmuth, S.. “Enhancing Service Robots for Future Homes: Insights and Learnings”, The 2024 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2024). Forum.
  3. Pasternak, K., Hart, J., Leonetti, M., Sugiura, K., Visser, U., Wachsmuth, S.. “Benchmarking Autonomous Service Robotics in Real Life”. The 2024 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS2024). Workshop.


Publications:

  1. Pasternak, K., Foronda, C., Downs, C., Visser, U. (2026). Social Robots for Pediatric Asthma Education: A Pilot Study. ICSR + AI 2025. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 16131. Springer, Singapore. link

  2. Ojalvo, J. , Duarte, C., Luo, S., Pasternak, K., Visser, U. (2026). YCB@Home: A Large Scale Synthetic Object Detection Dataset for RoboCup @Home League. In Robot World Cup 2025 (pp. ). Cham: Springer International Publishing. link

  3. Duarte, C., Luo, S., Ojalvo, J., Pasternak, K., & Visser, U. (2025). A Quantitative Comparison of Vision Performance for the HSR: Gazebo vs. Isaac Simulator. In Robot World Cup 2024 (pp. 339-350). Cham: Springer International Publishing. link

  4. Pasternak, K., Duarte, C., Ojalvo, J., Lisetti, C., & Visser, U. (2024). 3D Multimodal Socially Interactive Robot with ChatGPT Active Listening. In Robot World Cup 2023 (pp. 42-53). Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland. link

  5. Pasternak, K., Wu, Z., Visser, U., & Lisetti, C. (2022). Towards Building Rapport with a Human Support Robot. In Robot World Cup 2021 (pp. 214-225). Cham: Springer International Publishing. link

  6. Pasternak, K., Wu, Z., Visser, U., & Lisetti, C. (2021). Let's be friends! A Rapport-Building 3D Embodied Conversational Agent for the Human Support Robot. nHRI workshop at HRI ’21. arXiv preprint arXiv:2103.04498. 

  7. Pasternak, K. (2021). Reflective Embodied Conversational Agent for Human Support Robot in Rapport Building-Pilot Study (Master's thesis, University of Miami). link

  8. Pedro Peña and Ubbo Visser (2020). ITP: Inverse Trajectory Planning for  Human Pose Prediction. Künstliche Intelligenz ,  34(2), pp. 209-225, June 2020, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13218-020-00658-7

  9. Pedro Peña and Ubbo Visser (2020). Adaptive  Walk-Kick on a Bipedal Robot. In Stefan Chalup et al., editor, RoboCup  2019: Robot Soccer World Cup XXIII. Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, 2020. Best  Paper Award Candidate

  10. Rahul Dass, Nick Petersen, Ubbo Visser and Marisa Omori (2020): It’s Not  Just Black and White: Classifying Defendant Mugshots Based on the  Multidimensionality of Race and Ethnicity. In L. Paull and M. Brown (ed.),  Proceedings of the 17th Computer and Robot Vision, (pp 238-245), IEEE  Xplore, DOI  10.1109/CRV50864.2020.00039. 

  11. Pedro Pena, Christine Lisetti, Mihai Polceanu, and Ubbo Visser. eEVA:  Real-time Web-based Affective Agents for Human-Robot Interface. In Dirk Holz,  Katie Genter, Maarouf Saad, and Oskar von Stryk, editors, RoboCup 2018: Robot  Soccer World Cup XXII. S(pp. 262-274), Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, 2019.

  12. Pedro Pena, Joseph Masterjohn, and Ubbo Visser. An  Omni-directional Kick Engine for Humanoid Robots with Parameter  Optimization. In Hidehisa Akiyama, Oliver Obst, Claude Sammut, and Flavio  Tonidandel, (pp. 385-397), editors, RoboCup 2017: Robot Soccer World Cup  XXI. Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, 2018. 

  13. Andreas Seekircher and Ubbo Visser. An Adaptive  LIPM-based Dynamic Walk using Model Parameter Optimization on Humanoid  Robots. Kuenstliche Intelligenz (KI), Special Issue RoboCup,  30(3):1–12, July 2016.

  14. R. Amini, C. L. Lisetti, and G. Ruiz (2015). HapFACS 3.0: Open-Source  FACS-Based Facial Expression Generator for 3D speaking virtual characters.  IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, Vol. 6(4), pp-348-360.

  15. Saminda Abeyruwan, Dilip Sarkar, Faisal Sikder, and Ubbo Visser. Semi-Automatic Extraction  of Training Examples from Sensor Readings for and Posture Monitoring.  IEEE Sensors, 16(13):5406–5415, April 2016.

  16. Saminda Abeyruwan, Ramesh Baral, Ugan Yasavur, Christine Lisetti, and Ubbo  Visser. Humanoid  Robots and Spoken Dialog Systems for Brief Health Interventions. In Sonia  Chernova, Kris Hauser, Chad Jenkins, Maja Mataríc, Andrea Thomaz, and Manuela  Veloso, editors, AAAI Fall Symposium, AI-HRI Workshop, AAAI Fall Symposium  Series, pages 2–4. AAAI press, 2014.