Description:

This project will focus on the development of a new version of the OpenBionics adaptive, humanlike prosthetic hand. 

We will focus on the modelling, design and development of a new hybrid, body-powered prosthetic device.

The new design will demonstrate the adaptive behavior of compliant, under-actuated robot grippers and hands and their superior grasping capabilities under uncertainties (e.g., object pose uncertainties). To do that, we will explore alternative uses of structural compliance for the development of adaptive grasping mechanisms, and we will develop new differential mechanisms, new transmission schemes (that combine direct driven and body powered approaches), and muscle machine interfaces based on lightmyography. 

This project will be done in collaboration with the OpenBionics Initiative (www.openbionics.org).

More details about the team can be found in: www.newdexterity.org | www.openbionics.org

Video of previous version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1BF9GAvdrA   

Type:

Undergraduate

Outcome:

The new version of the OpenBionics adaptive, open-source humanlike prosthetic hand. 

Prerequisites

None

Specialisations

• Mechatronics Engineering

Categories

• Biomechatronics
• Mechatronics
• Robotics

Supervisor

• Minas Liarokapis

Team

• Trevor Heinemann
• Raymond Wallace

Lab

Mechatronics Research (405.822, Lab)