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Balanced and Human-like Robotic Bipedal Gait
The study of bipedal robotic gait strategy from the fundamental point of view to produce human-like gait. The project explores the dynamics of the bipedal systems and analyses it through simulations and experimental validation. This project is carried out in collaboration with Professor Oussama Khatib (Stanford University) and Prof. Mary Galea (Physiotherapy). Funded by ARC Discovery (DP1093476).
Rehabilitation robotics
This project focuses on the study of robotics technology in the clinical rehabilitation of people with motion impairement, such as in post-stroke patients. This project is conducted in collaboration with Professor Mary Galea of the School of Physiotherapy and the Melbourne University Virtual Environment for Simulation (MUVES). This is an interdisciplinary project, covering various engineering sub-topics as well as clinical and communication topics. One of the sub-projects was funded by the Institute of Broadband Enabled Society (IBES) in 2010, studying the effect of network latency in the engineering systems and the clinical communication.
Computational Model of Human Motor Control and Motor Learning
The project aims to study the human motor behaviour (in achieving force / motion control and skill learning) through the use of fundamental engineering models, especially control theory. The outcomes are applied to "Rehabilitation Robotics" project to provide a rigorous treatment to the formulation of the strategies used in the rehabilitation robotics study. This project is carried out in collaboration with external collaborators: A/Prof. Etienne Burdet (Imperial College, London) and Dr Chris Freeman (University of Southampton, UK).
Hybrid Cable-driven Robotic Manipulator
This project starts from the state-of-the-arts of cable-driven parallel robotic manipulator (CDPRM) and aims towards the efficient modelling, kinematics calculations, control strategy (optimisation of cable forces), and workspace analysis of multi-segment cable-driven manipulator. The current work has achieved the automated formulation of the equations of motion and simulation of cases with large numbers of cable on N-link system.