We have been amazed by the mind-blowing robots from Boston Dynamics. However, behind those futuristic robot videos, open challenges exist in autonomous sensing, reasoning, and trajectory planning of autonomous robots, in particular when working in close distance with humans.
In our team, we took the initiative of creating a smart collaborative robot that can actively work together with humans to complete assembly tasks. We are pretty proud of our achievements as shown below:
But more interesting and challenging tasks await you to solve, e.g., how can we develop intelligent whole-body sensing, planning, and robot control technologies to allow robots to actively assist with humans during complex assembly operations (e.g., handing over a screw driver).
This project will see you develop the required sensing, reasoning and control technologies to avoid collisions with human workers when in close distance of completing related benchtop tasks, such as grasping and screw driving. We are also keen to see a more intelligent robot behaviour generation technology to be always capable of reading human worker’s mind and generate empathetic robot assistive behaviours.
Does this project sound challenge? Do not worry. We have an excellent research team around you. We have experts on computer vision, robot control and machine learning algorithms just sitting next to you. What you need to contribute is a lot of energy and passion to learn with a purpose.
Undergraduate
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Manufacturing Systems (405.870, Lab)