Floor scanning robot (L), Modified Arlo (M), P3DX (R)
Research Topics
A number of mobile robots are under development for applicaitons in agriculture, hazardous environment and transportation.
National Instruments Autonomous Robotics Competition (NI ARC) has been among the major student projects.
Projects:
- Helping Hand robot, using computer vision for hand gestures
- Lane and pedestrian detection for autonomous vehicles
- Floor surface mapping using low cost scanner and RGB-D cameras
- Socially interactive robotics
- Indoor service robot
- 3D localization and mapping methods using RGB-D sensors
- Indoor localization with visual light communication
- Bioinspired hybrid grasping mechanism
- Robot assisted trimming of rotationally moulded parts
- Mobile machine vision development for urine patch detection
- Wireless communication with autonomous underwater vehicles
- Path planning and obstacle avoidance in environments with moving objects
Research Funding
- MBIE and Massey Ventures Ltd.
- Postgraduate and undergraduate research/capstone project funds