This project aims to achieve fast, accurate, motion and force control of actuators based on shape memory alloy (SMA). Wires made from SMA can be stretched easily when cool, but contract forcibly to their original length when heated.
Fast Cars
Keeping cars (2 and 4 wheel drives) controllable in full four wheel drift situations is the central topic for this project. Mechatronics, control, and machine learning are combined to achieve this goal.
Autonomous flight of small helicopters in real world, outdoor scenarios is a challenge for all areas of robotics. This project focuses on the development of new sensor combinations for robustness at small sizes.
The aim of this project was to build an autonomous submersible robot for research purposes. This robot will enable investigation of the fundamental problems of autonomous operation of underwater vehicles.
The aim of the RSL Active Vision group was to provide robust high performance, high precision "active" vision sensors for vision research across a variety of disciplines including, autonomous robot navigation and human/robot interaction.
The aim of these projects was to develop a robust and reliable mobile robot for long term operations. A teleoperation interface is also being developed to permit web based control in a laboratory environment.
In this project a visual interface is developed which will allow the visual and tactile interaction between a human operator and a robot arm. Aspects of this project are real-time computer vision and open-loop force control for safe interaction between a manipulator and a person.
A challenging mechatronics problem is the control of a robot arm equipped with a dextrous hand for skillful manipulation tasks. Our ultimate goal is to mount the robot arm-hand on a mobile platform which will allow research of the performance of skillful tasks such as opening and passing through doors.
Interfacing with 3D virtual environments is a challenging problem. This project aims to develop a gesture-based interface to a virtual workbench using vision systems for real-time hand-tracking.
