3 accepted papers
This paper reports on Team Northeastern's Avatar system for telepresence, and our holistic approach to meet the ANA Avatar XPRIZE Final testing task requirements. The system features a dual-arm configuration with hydraulically actuated glove-gripper pair for haptic force feedback. Our proposed Avata…
There has been a drastic shift to remote interaction for professional, industrial and personal interactions. Improving the overall quality of these interactions by removing any sense of distance between the users is the ultimate goal. Video conferencing has been widely adopted as an improvement to a…
Dexterous, serial-chain motor-driven robotic arms have high moving mass, since most of the actuators must be located in the arm itself. This necessitates high gear ratios, sacrificing passive compliance, backdrivability, and the capacity for delicate motion. We introduce the concept of a remote dire…