About Fredrik
Fredrik Rydén is a graduate student at the
Department of Electrical Engineering at University of Washington.
He received his Bachelor of Science at Chalmers
University of Technology (Gothenburg, Sweden) in Spring 2010. He is
currently a member of the BioRobotics lab, working
under the supervision of Professor Howard Chizeck, where his
main area of research is haptics and surgical robotics.
His early research on haptic
rendering
from Kinect data received great
attention in both national as well as international
press. In January 2011, Chief Research and Strategy Officer for
Microsoft Craig Mundie held a
talk
at the Cleveland Clinic where he mentioned the work done by Fredrik and
the BioRobotics Lab as an example of innovative uses of Kinect.
The same project later appeared in the Microsoft Official Blog
when the Kinect SDK was
announced. His work has been presented at some of the top robotics and
haptics conferenses around the globe even though he is still in the
early stages of his degree.
In his spare time, Fredrik enjoys backcountry skiing
and producing music.
Publications
Tech to the future: Making a "Kinection" with haptic interaction [link coming soon]
F. Rydén
Will appear in IEEE Potentials Magazine May/June 2012 edition.
Proxy Method for Fast Haptic Rendering from Time Varying Point Clouds.
[pdf]
F. Rydén, S.N. Kosari and H.J. Chizeck.
Accepted for publication and oral presentation at IEEE/RSJ
International Conference on Intelligent Robots and System (IROS) in
September 2011, San Francisco, CA. (32% acceptance rate).
Using Kinect and a Haptic Interface for Implementation of Real-time Virtual Fixtures. [pdf]
F. Rydén, H.J. Chizeck, S.N. Kosari, H. King, and B. Hannaford.
Robotics, Science and Systems (RSS) Workshop on RGB-D Cameras in June 2011, Los Angeles, CA.
Demonstrations
Demonstration of "remote touch" at TEDxRainier 2012.
F. Rydén, H.J. Chizeck.
Demonstration during Akhtar Badshah's talk at TEDxRainier, November 2012 in Seattle, WA.
Proxy Method for Fast Haptic Rendering from Time Varying Point Clouds.
F. Rydén, S.N. Kosari and H.J. Chizeck.
Accepted for demonstration at IEEE/RSJ International
Conference on Intelligent Robots and System (IROS) in September 2011,
San Francisco, CA.
Using Kinect and a Haptic Interface for Implementation of Real-time Virtual Fixtures.
F. Rydén, H.J. Chizeck, S.N. Kosari, H. King, and B. Hannaford.
Demonstrated at the RSS Workshop on RGB-D Cameras in June 2011, Los Angeles, CA.
Using Kinect and a Haptic Interface for Implementation of Real-time Virtual Fixtures.
F. Rydén, H.J. Chizeck, S.N. Kosari, H. King, and B. Hannaford.
Demonstrated at IEEE - World Haptics Conference (WHC) in June 2011, Istanbul, Turkey.
Links
My public profile
on Linkedin
The BioRobotics Lab
High resolution video
of Haptic Rendering