Low Cost Robotic Medicine Dispenser

Accurate and Low Cost Training System for Robotic Surgery

Surgeons’ training is mainly based on a Halstedian apprenticeship model whereby residents learn by directly assisting an experienced surgeon during the intervention and slowly increase their hands-on experience over time. Hands on training is indeed essential for effective training to robotic surgery, however the reservation of the robot for training represents an additional cost that hospitals...

Design & Testing of a Low-Cost Robotic Wheelchair Prototype

Many people who are mobility impaired are, for a variety of reasons, incapable of using an ordinary wheelchair. In some instances, a power wheelchair also cannot be used, usually because of the difficulty the person has in controlling it (often due to additional disabilities). This paper describes two lowcost robotic wheelchair prototypes that assist the operator of the chair in avoiding obstac...

Design of low-cost robotic arm for education

The goal of this project was to design and implement the electronics for a robotic device – namely a robotic manipulator. The manipulator has a total of six degrees of freedom, three of which are on the manipulator itself, and the rest are in the wrist. A gripper is used as the end stage of the device. It was necessary to design the electronics so that they could be interfaced with standard har...

Optimal demining using a swarm of low-cost robotic units

Design of Integrated Structures for Low-Cost, Compliant Robotic Systems

Robotics extends human performance to domains currently beyond our grasp. From assistive devices in ones hands to autonomous systems in distant lands, agile control is needed design and operate near performance bounds. My research interest is in planning and control methods to enable dynamic motion, particularly of low-cost, compliant hardware. I look at this from both: (1) an integrated planni...