Kris Hauser

Kris Hauser

Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Robot motion planning and control, semiautonomous robots, and integrating perception and planning. Applications of this research have included automated vehicle collision avoidance, robotic manipulation, robot-assisted medicine, and legged locomotion.

Appointments and Affiliations

  • Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
  • Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science

Contact Information

  • Office Location: 304 Research Dr, North Building Rm 135, Durham, NC 27708
  • Office Phone: (919) 660-5441
  • Email Address: kris.hauser@duke.edu
  • Websites:

Education

  • Ph.D. Stanford University, 2008

Research Interests

Robot motion planning and control, semiautonomous robots, and integrating perception and planning

Awards, Honors, and Distinctions

  • Best Paper Award. IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots. 2015
  • NSF CAREER Award. National Science Foundation. 2013
  • Siebel Scholar Fellowship. Siebel Foundation. 2007

Courses Taught

  • COMPSCI 391: Independent Study
  • ECE 392: Projects in Electrical and Computer Engineering
  • ECE 489: Advanced Robot System Design
  • ECE 590: Advanced Topics in Electrical and Computer Engineering
  • ECE 891: Internship
  • ECE 899: Special Readings in Electrical Engineering
  • ME 392: Undergraduate Projects in Mechanical Engineering
  • ME 492: Special Projects in Mechanical Engineering
  • ME 555: Advanced Topics in Mechanical Engineering
  • ME 592: Research Independent Study in Mechanical Engineering or Material Science

In the News

Representative Publications

  • Luo, J; Zhang, Y; Hauser, K; Park, HA; Paldhe, M; Lee, CSG; Grey, M; Stilman, M; Oh, JH; Lee, J; Kim, I; Oh, P, Robust Ladder-Climbing with a Humanoid Robot with Application to the DARPA Robotics Challenge, Ieee Intl. Conf. on Robotics and Automation (2014) [abs].
  • Hauser, K, Fast interpolation and time-optimization with contact, International Journal of Robotics Research, vol 33 no. 9 (2014), pp. 1231-1250 [10.1177/0278364914527855] [abs].
  • Hauser, K, The Minimum Constraint Removal Problem with Three Robotics Applications, International Journal of Robotics Research, vol 33 (2014), pp. 5-17 [10.1177/0278364913507795] [abs].
  • Hauser, K, Robust Contact Generation for Robot Simulation with Unstructured Meshes, Intl. Symposium on Robotics Research (2013) [abs].
  • Hauser, K, Minimum Constraint Displacement Motion Planning, Robotics: Science and Systems (2013) [abs].
  • Zhang, Y; Hauser, K, Unbiased, scalable sampling of protein loop conformations from probabilistic priors., Bmc Structural Biology, vol 13 Suppl 1 (2013) [10.1186/1472-6807-13-s1-s9] [abs].
  • Bennett, CC; Hauser, K, Artificial Intelligence Framework for Simulating Clinical Decision-Making: A Markov Decision Process Approach, Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, vol 57 (2013), pp. 9-19 [abs].
  • Hauser, K; Latombe, JC, Multi-modal motion planning in non-expansive spaces, International Journal of Robotics Research, vol 29 no. 7 (2010), pp. 897-915 [10.1177/0278364909352098] [abs].
  • Hauser, K; Alterovitz, R; Chentanez, N; Okamura, A; Goldberg, K, Feedback control for steering needles through 3D deformable tissue using helical paths, Robotics: Science and Systems, vol 5 (2010), pp. 289-296 [10.15607/rss.2009.v.037] [abs].
  • Chentanez, N; Alterovitz, R; Ritchie, D; Cho, L; Hauser, KK; Goldberg, K; Shewchuk, JR; O'Brien, JF, Interactive simulation of surgical needle insertion and steering, Acm Transactions on Graphics, vol 28 no. 3 (2009) [10.1145/1531326.1531394] [abs].