[eas_cs_seminars] Seminar on 16/01

[Luca Rossi]

Hi all,

Next Tuesday (16/01) Dr Micael Couceiro (University of Coimbra, Portugal
and Ingeniarius Ltd (PT)) and Karen Tatarian (American University of
Beirut, Lebanon) will give a talk titled "Eyes on Transhumanism: A low-cost
robotic prosthetic hand for academia". The talk will take place in G11 from
2pm to 3:30pm.

See the abstract below.

Best,
Luca

Abstract
Robotics and biomimetics have been exploiting the unique designs of the
human body with the intent to develop disruptive anthropomorphic artificial
appendages. Such endeavours are relevant for a multitude of applications,
including limb prosthetics for amputees, robotic surrogates for underwater
and space applications, and exoskeletons for military combat enhancement.
Nevertheless, while lower extremity prosthetics have evolved to the point
at which lower leg amputees may be competitive with the best runners in the
world, there is still a gap between upper extremity prosthetics and real
hands. This short-term R&D project intends to be a pioneer into developing
a low-cost multipurpose robotic hand for research and academia, offering a
high degree of functionality for electrical engineering students,
closed-loop force control, computer science (e.g. learning-by-imitation
with computer vision methods), biomedical engineering (e.g. myoelectric
control), and others. This project encompasses the full system development
life cycle of the proposed solution, starting with the design and
manufacture of the hand using 3D printing PLA technology, the
electromechanical development using microservos and a ARM-based solution,
and the full ROS integration.

-- 
Luca Rossi

Lecturer in Computer Science
School of Engineering and Applied Science
Aston University
Web: http://www.cs.aston.ac.uk/~rossil/ <http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~rossil/>
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