Interactive & Emergent Autonomy Lab

Ola Kalinowska

Research

I'm interested in understanding and designing algorithms for collaboration. In my PhD research, I explore how to algorithmically facilitate communication and adaptation for effective robotic assistance.

Projects

Robot-Assisted Rehabilitation
Software Enabled Biomedical Devices

Education

M.S. Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern University, 2019
B.S. Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016

Teaching

TA & Adjunct Lecturer for NUvention: Medical Innovation (ENTREP 470), 2017-2022
TA for Machine Dynamics (ME 314), Fall 2018

Other Interests

Skiing, sailing, hiking, volleyball, and being outdoors



Publications

Embodied Communication: How Robots and People Communicate Through Physical Interaction
A. Kalinowska, P. M. Pilarski, T. D. Murphey
Annual Review of Control, Robotics, and Autonomous Systems, 2023. PDF

Measuring interaction bandwidth during physical human-robot collaboration
A. Kalinowska, M. Schlafly, K. Rudy, J. P. Dewald, T. D. Murphey
Robotics and Automation Letters (RAL), 2022. PDF

Towards situated communication in multi-step interactions: Time is a key pressure in communication emergence
A. Kalinowska, E. Davoodi, K. W. Mathewson, T. D. Murphey, P. Pilarski
Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci), 2022. PDF

Ergodic imitation: Learning from what to do and what not to do
A. Kalinowska, A. Prabhakar, K. Fitzsimons, T. D. Murphey
IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2021. PDF

Task-based hybrid shared control for training through forceful interaction
K. Fitzsimons, A. Kalinowska, J. Dewald and T. D. Murphey
International Journal of Robotics Research (IJRR), vol. 39, no. 9, pp. 1138-1154, 2020. PDF

Shoulder abduction loading affects motor coordination in individuals with chronic stroke, informing targeted rehabilitation
A. Kalinowska, K. Rudy, M. Schlafly, K. Fitzsimons, J. Dewald and T. D. Murphey
IEEE RAS/EMBS Int. Conf. on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics (BioRob), 2020. PDF

Data-driven gait segmentation for walking assistance in a lower-limb assistive device
A. Kalinowska, T. Berrueta, A. Zoss, and T. D. Murphey
IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2019. PDF

Online user assessment for minimal intervention during task-based robotic assistance
A. Kalinowska, K. Fitzsimons, J. Dewald, and T. D. Murphey
Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS), 2018. PDF