In the CSR lab, we aim to tackle challenges in Human-Robot-Environment interactions by developing Compliant and Soft Robots and Mechatronics Systems.
Combining applied and theoretical research, we focus our work on understanding how compliance can simplify the way systems interact together. Our comprehension of these compliant interactions is then employed to design, model and control novel robotics and mechatronics solutions to solve medical, industrial, exploration or nuclear-decommissioning challenges.
Compliant mechanism
Variable stiffness Joints (VSJ)
Variable Stiffness Actuators (VSA)
Variable Impedance Actuators (VIA)
Soft actuators
Compliant sensors
Hyperelastic models
Ballooning membranes behaviour
Pneumatically actuated systems dynamic
Bayesian based palpation controller
Position/Stiffness nonlinear control strategies