Wyatt S. Newman

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Wyatt S. Newman is a prominent robotics researcher whose work spans robot motion control, compliant assembly, agile manufacturing, human-robot interaction, and surgical robotics. His foundational contributions to dynamic potential functions for high-speed robot control and obstacle avoidance (104 citations) established influential frameworks for time-optimal manipulator motion, while his force-moment interpretation methods for peg-in-hole assembly (94 citations) advanced precision robotic manipulation with practical industrial relevance. Newman's contributions to agile manufacturing workcell design (77 citations) demonstrated real-world deployment of flexible, multi-robot assembly systems developed alongside industrial collaborators. His work on robot calibration using laser tracking (75 citations) addressed critical accuracy challenges in industrial robotics. Notably, Newman has bridged assistive and medical robotics, developing an electrooculography-based human-robot interface (74 citations) and pioneering motion-canceling algorithms for off-pump cardiac surgery robots (52 citations), with more recent contributions to hand-eye calibration for the da Vinci surgical system (58 citations) underscoring his sustained relevance. Across more than two decades of research, Newman has consistently translated theoretical rigor into practical robotic systems, accumulating a body of work that continues to inform both industrial automation and medical robotics communities.

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Top Papers

1. 1
   High speed robot control and obstacle avoidance using dynamic potential functions

   104 citations · 2005
2. 2
   Interpretation of force and moment signals for compliant peg-in-hole assembly

   94 citations · 2002
3. 3
   Advances in agile manufacturing

   77 citations · 2002
4. 4
   Calibration of a Motoman P8 robot based on laser tracking

   75 citations · 2002
5. 5
   A human-robot interface based on electrooculography

   74 citations · 2004
6. 6
   Stabilization of a mobile robot climbing stairs

   71 citations · 2002
7. 7
   Camera-Robot Calibration for the Da Vinci Robotic Surgery System

   58 citations · 2020
8. 8
   Control algorithms for active relative motion cancelling for robotic assisted off-pump coronary artery bypass graft surgery

   52 citations · 2006
9. 9
   An agile manufacturing workcell design

   51 citations · 1997
10. 10
    The passivity of natural admittance control implementations

    48 citations · 2004

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