Fredrik Rydén

 

About Fredrik

    Fredrik Rydén is a PhD student at the Department of Electrical Engineering at University of Washington.  He received his B.S. (2010) and M.S. (2012) degrees from Chalmers University of Technology and University of Washington respectively. 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, underwater manipulation and surgical robotics. Fredrik is listed as an inventor/co-inventor on 1 international patent application as well as five US provisional patent applications.
   
    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.
   
    In May 2012, he was awarded with the Outstanding Research Award by the Department of Electrical Engineering at University of Washington, for his work on haptic rendering and remote touch. His work on haptic rendering of a beating pig heart (later accepted for IROS 2012) was featured in The Telegraph.
    
    In his spare time, Fredrik enjoys backcountry skiing and producing music.
    
    A set of videos demonstrating Fredrik's work can be found HERE

Journal publications

A Proxy Method for Real-Time 3-DOF Haptic Rendering of Streaming Point Cloud Data [pre-print pdf]
F. Rydén and H.J. Chizeck.
IEEE Transaction on Haptics

Tech to the future: Making a "Kinection" with haptic interaction [pdf]
F. Rydén
IEEE Potentials Magazine May/June 2012 issue.

Conference papers/Other publications

A Method for Constraint-Based Six Degree-of-Freedom Haptic Interaction with Streaming Point Clouds [pdf coming soon]
F. Rydén and H.J. Chizeck.
Accepted for publication at IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) in May 2013, Karlsruhe, Germany. (39% acceptance rate).

Forbidden-Region Virtual Fixtures from Streaming Point Clouds: Remotely Touching and Protecting a Beating Heart [pdf]
F. Rydén and H.J. Chizeck.
Accepted for publication and oral presentation at IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and System (IROS) in October 2012, Vilamoura, Portugal. (45% acceptance rate).

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.

Patents

CHIZECK, Howard, Fredrik RYDéN, Sina NIA KOSARI, Blake HANNAFORD, Nicklas GUSTAFSSON, and Hawkeye KING. "METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR HAPTIC RENDERING AND CREATING VIRTUAL FIXTURES FROM POINT CLOUDS." WIPO Patent 2012174406, issued December 21, 2012.

Fredrik is currently listed as an inventor/co-inventor on five US provisional patent applications.

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