5 accepted papers
This letter presents a new type of wearable robot, called the Hybrid SuperLimb, which integrates voluntary human movements and the autonomous reactive control of a robotic limb. Some degrees of freedom (DOF) of the SuperLimb are powered by human body movements and are controlled voluntarily and dire
A human has over 200 muscles in the body, creating a high degree of flexibility and redundancy in movement. This paper exploits this high degree of redundancy for the actuation and control of Supernumerary Robotic Limbs (SuperLimbs), which are attached to a human body. SuperLimbs containing many act
Autonomous assistive feeding systems need to acquire deformable food items of varying physical characteristics to be able to feed users. However, bite acquisition of these deformable food items is challenging without force feedback of appropriate range and sensitivity. We developed custom solutions…
Autonomous feeding is challenging because it requires the manipulation of food items with various compliance, sizes, and shapes. To understand how humans manipulate food items during feeding and to explore ways to adapt their strategies to robots, we collected a rich dataset of human trajectories by
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are now very popular for many applications such as surveillance and transport and they are typically constructed starting from the design process. However, it is very time consuming and require all new airworthiness process. In this paper, we aim to provide a novel fr…