Modem network for underwater localisation and communication.
10DOF underwater arm: HDT Adroit arm.
Autonomous Surface Vehicle for long endurance missions: ASV Enduro.
Autonomous Underwater Vehicle: IVER 3 AUV with Klein Interferometric Sonar and INS.
This is a standard Minimally Invasive Surgery (MIS) training platform used by training surgeons. It is used in ECR for robotic assistant development for MIS operations. This equipment allows us to replicate the actual training conditions of professional surgeons and therefore renders our robotic assistance studies to be realistic and to comply with the actual practices in medical MIS training.
This equipment enables force and torque sensing in order for robot manipulators to interact either with humans or with the physical environment. In ECR, we are developing physically interactive assistant robots to help people with finely skilled manipulations. The robotic assistants are usually admittance controlled, which means that the force/torque sensor attached to the end-effector captures the force/torque impact on the robot and then the end-point position/orientation is updated according to this force/torque reading.
This system is used for recording Electromyography signals from human muscles. In ECR, we are interested in understanding the human body activity needed to generate the fine manipulations for highly skilled and professional tasks that are typical in minimally invasive surgical operations in medicine, and manual welding in industrial manufacturing. The EMG measurement system enables us to record and analyse the arm muscle activity of novice versus professional subjects, and that of trainee subjects, throughout the course of training.
