Publications by Harshit Khurana

Leveraging intentional impacts in Non-Prehensile manipulation

This thesis explores an instance of Moravec's paradox within the domain of impact-aware non-prehensile manipulation. The specific task investigated here involves interacting with a simple environment through the application of an impulse, or a hit / strike ...

EPFL2025

Corrections to “Learning the Inverse Hitting Problem”

Aude Billard, Harshit Khurana

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)2025

Hitting with Different Joints of a Robotic Manipulator

Aude Billard, Harshit Khurana

This paper builds up the skill of impact aware non prehensile manipulation through a hitting motion by allowing the robot arm to come in contact with the environment with parts other than its end effector. Hitting with other joints allows us to manipulate ...

2024

A Stable Adaptive Extended Kalman Filter for Estimating Robot Manipulators Link Velocity and Acceleration

Aude Billard, Harshit Khurana

One can estimate the velocity and acceleration of robot manipulators by utilizing nonlinear observers. This involves combining inertial measurement units (IMUs) with the motor encoders of the robot through a model-based sensor fusion technique. This approa ...

IEEE2023

Motion Planning and Inertia Based Control for Impact Aware Manipulation

Aude Billard, Harshit Khurana

In this paper, we propose a metric called hitting flux which is used in the motion generation and controls for a robot manipulator to interact with the environment through a hitting or a striking motion. Given the task of placing a known object outside of ...

2023

Learning to Hit: A statistical Dynamical System based approach

Aude Billard, Michael Bosongo Bombile, Harshit Khurana

This paper proposes a manipulation scheme based on learning the motion of objects after being hit by a robotic end-effector. This allows for the object to be positioned at a desired location outside the physical workspace of the robot. An estimate of the o ...

IEEE2021