Research Interests

• Robotics
• Physical Intelligence
• Tactile Manipulation

(source: Google Scholar)

Selected Publications

• Robin Jeanne Kirschner, Kübra Karacan, Alessandro Melone, Sami Haddadin, Categorizing robots by performance fitness into the tree of robots, 2025. [Project Page]
• Robin Jeanne Kirschner, Sebastian Siegner, Kübra Karacan, Sami Haddadin, The Foundation for Tactile Robots: Approaching the Holistic Analysis of a Robot's Force Sensing Capabilities, 2025. [Project Page]
• Robin Jeanne Kirschner, Kübra Karacan, Alessandro Melone, Seongjin Bien, Samuel Schneider, Sami Haddadin, treeofrobots\_usertool (Version 2), 2025. [Project Page]
• Xiao Chen, Tianle Ni, Kübra Karacan, Hamid Sadeghian, Sami Haddadin, Online Transfer and Adaptation of Tactile Skill: A Teleoperation Framework, 2024. [Project Page]
• Kübra Karacan, Robin Jeanne Kirschner, Hamid Sadeghian, Fan Wu, Sami Haddadin, Tactile Robot Programming: Transferring Task Constraints into Constraint-Based Unified Force-Impedance Control, 2024. [Project Page]
• Kübra Karacan, Anran Zhang, Hamid Sadeghian, Fan Wu, Sami Haddadin, Visuo-Tactile Exploration of Unknown Rigid 3D Curvatures by Vision-Augmented Unified Force-Impedance Control, 2024. [Project Page]
• Sebastian Kuhn, Mehmet Can Yildirim, Edmundo Pozo Fortunic, Kübra Karacan, Abdalla Swikir, Sami Haddadin, A Novel Variable Stiffness Suspension System for Improved Stability and Control of Tactile Mobile Manipulators, 2024. [Project Page]
• Robin Jeanne Kirschner, Kübra Karacan, Alessandro Melone, Seongjin Bien, Samuel Schneider, Sami Haddadin, treeofrobots\_usertool (Version 1), 2024. [Project Page]
• Kübra Karacan, Robin Jeanne Kirschner, Hamid Sadeghian, Fan Wu, Sami Haddadin, The Inherent Representation of Tactile Manipulation Using Unified Force-Impedance Control, 2023. [Project Page]
• Kübra Karacan, Hamid Sadeghian, Robin Jeanne Kirschner, Sami Haddadin, Passivity-Based Skill Motion Learning in Stiffness-Adaptive Unified Force-Impedance Control, 2022. [Project Page]
• Robin Jeanne Kirschner, Alexander Kurdas, Kübra Karacan, Philipp Junge, Seyed Ali Baradaran Birjandi, Nico Mansfeld, Saeed Abdolshah, Sami Haddadin, Towards a Reference Framework for Tactile Robot Performance and Safety Benchmarking, 2021. [Project Page]