Research
Interests.
Robotic Hands
The necessary end effectors for robot arms to conduct various tasks in daily life and industries. Robot hands are intended to realise the same dexterous manipulation that human can do.
Dexterous robotic hands can perform a wide arange of manipulation skills, making them an appealing component for general-purpose robotic manipulators.
Dexterous Manipulation
Mechanism Design
Mechanical structure design is an essential aspect in the area of robotics, providing aids on the task performances and the control complexities.
Human Robot Interaction
Robots are artificial agents with capacities of perception and action in the physical world, providing assistant in societies imply a closer interation with the user
Robotic Hands
The vast variety of tasks that need to be overcome to allow robots to excel in different industries and daily life allows for the design of multiple types of grippers. I am interested in many types of robot hands which can perform not only grasping but also complex manipulation like a human hand, e.g. parallel grippers, soft grippers, anthropomorphic hands etc.
Dexterous Manipulation
Humans excel when dealing with everyday objects and manipulation tasks, learning new skills, and adapting to different or complex environments. This is a basic skill for our survival as well as a key feature in our world of artefacts and human-made devices. Apart from pick and place tasks, robot hands are more expected to deal with day-to-day tasks that while we find easy, can be challenging for robots. To help robot hands on solving complex dexterous manipulation via different aspects is appealing to me.
Mechanism Design
Mechanical and mechanism design plays a very important role in our daily life. Almost everything that can move is related to mechanics. Machine Design or Mechanical Design can be defined as the process by which resources or energy is converted into useful mechanical forms, or the mechanisms so as to obtain useful output from the machines in the desired form as per the needs of the human beings. Machine design can lead to the formation of the entirely new machine or it can lead to up-gradation or improvement of the existing machine. Those contraptions inspire the development of the design of the robot hands.
Human-Robot Interaction
Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) is a field of study dedicated to understanding, designing, and evaluating robotic systems for use by or with humans. Interaction, by definition, requires communication between robots and humans. Communication between a human and a robot may take several forms, but these forms are largely influenced by whether the human and the robot are in close proximity to each other or not. This is an essential field when designing assisted living robots.