Grasping and Manipulating Flexible Objects
Student projects may include experiments on robotic handling of cloth, cables, and deformable materials using vision-guided manipulation.
Projects
Student Projects
Representative research topics for students across the five pillars.
The laboratory offers a range of research topics for undergraduate and graduate students. Student projects may include work in any of the four research pillars — from deformable object manipulation and mobile manipulators to action support by autonomous robots and connected robotics with edge AI.
Each project topic below illustrates the kind of work students may pursue. Topics evolve as the laboratory’s research advances, and students are encouraged to discuss their interests with laboratory faculty.
Scene Understanding for Everyday Tasks
Student projects may include developing perception systems that recognize objects and understand spatial relationships to support robot task planning.
Mobile Robot Navigation in Unstructured Environments
Student projects may include autonomous navigation and path planning for mobile robots operating in indoor and outdoor environments.
Human-Robot Cooperative Assembly
Student projects may include shared-workspace assembly tasks where a robot observes and adapts to a human partner's actions.
Distributed Robot-IoT Sensing and Reasoning
Student projects may include building systems where robots and IoT sensors share observations and edge AI modules make explainable decisions.
Field Robotic Systems for Inspection
Student projects may include developing mobile robotic platforms for infrastructure inspection in outdoor or hazardous environments.
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