Robotics and biomechatronics

Professor Peter Xu

• Digestion robotics (chewing, swallowing, throat, esophagus and stomach)
• Soft tissue manipulation via a rigid-bodied robot
• Soft tissue manipulation via a soft-bodied robot
• Soft surface manipulator for simultaneous sorting of multiple delicate objects
• Robotic instrumentation for food texture and rheology analysis
• Soft-robotic sensing, actuating and control
• Data-driven modelling and control in soft robotics
• Catheter-tip fibre optic Raman sensor for in vivo cancer diagnosis
• Needle-tip fibre optic force sensor for in vivo tissue identification
• Aerial manipulation for forest canopy sampling
• Autonomous omnidirectional mobile robotics

Associate Professor Andrew McDaid

• Medical devices - design and control
• Rehabilitation robotics and wearables
• Artificial intelligence and machine learning
• Functional electrical stimulation (FES) - neuroprosthetics
• Smart materials and soft robotics
• Intelligent and adaptive control systems
• Physiological control (EEG, HD-EMG)
• Neuroscience and human motor control/learning
• Gamification
• Novel additive manufacturing for customised medical devices

Associate Professor Minas Liarokapis

• Robust robot grasping and dexterous manipulation
• Adaptive robot and prosthetic hands
• Single-grasp, haptic object identification
• Soft, tendon-driven exogloves
• EMG control of robotic and prosthetic devices
• Humanlike telemanipulation with robot arm hand systems
• Evaluation and assessment of human and robot dexterity
• Reconfigurable drones

Available research supervision opportunities

• MECHENG 730 Advanced Biomechatronic Systems
• MECHENG 736 Biomechatronic Systems
• ENGGEN 770 Medical Devices Technologies
• ENGGEN 771 Medical Devices Industry Practice

• New Dexterity research team
• Medical Devices and Technologies

• Professor Peter Xu
• Dr Jaspreet Dhupia
• Associate Professor Andrew McDaid
• Associate Professor Karl Stol
• Associate Professor Minas Liarokapis
• Mr Marshall Lim