Robotics

We present an aerial robotic platform for remote tree cavity inspection, based on a hexacopter Micro-Aerial vehicle (MAV) equipped with a dexterous manipulator.

This research illustrates the design, implementation, and evaluation of pneumatic variable-stiffness actuator (VSA) used to strum a four-stringed ukulele with audio variability.

In this paper, we propose such a model to codesign the motion and leg configurations of a robot such that a measure of performance is optimized.

We present the design and control of an untethered, energetically autonomous single-legged hopping robot.

We have developed a toy sized humanoid robot with soft air-filled modules on its links which sense contact and protect the robot and any interacting humans from damaging collisions.

In this work, we develop a controller for realizing smooth and accurate motion of a robotic head with application to a teleoperation system for the Furhat robot head.

We aim to create a hopping mechanism for a small-scale, one-legged, untethered hopping robot.

In this paper, we present the design process of these modules and demonstrate their efficacy by implementing a “grab and move” user interface for posing the robot link by link.