NSF M3X project awarded

National Science Foundation, CMMI, M3X – Mind, Machine, and Motor Nexus, Collaborative Research: Enhancing Gait Dynamics via Physical Human-human and Human-Robot Interactions at the Hands (#1761679), $319,231, PI: Essa, Co-PI: Ueda, 06/01/2018-05/30/2021. This is a collaborative project with Drs. Lena Ting and Madeleine Hackney at Emory University.

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Paper on pneumatic actuator control with long transmission lines has been published in IEEE TMECH

Melih Turkseven and Jun Ueda, Model Based Force Control of Pneumatic Actuators with Long Transmission Lines, IEEE /ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, [LINK Xplore]. Pneumatic systems with long transmission lines have recently gained popularity in tele-operated robotic applications, such as medical robots designed for operations in magnetic resonance (MR) rooms, mobile…

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Georgia Tech Institute for Electronics and Nanotechnology Project on Muscle-Inspired Actuators

An interdicipinary team at Georgia Tech led by Dr. Ansari at ECE will develop muscle-inspired piezoelectric actuators. Georgia Tech Institute for Electronics and Nanotechnology (IEN), Micro-/Nano- Electronics and Photonics for Challenges of Global Significance, $225,000 (for 3 years), Muscle-Inspired Actuators for Multiscale Robotics (MIAMuR), PI: Azadeh Ansari, co-PIs: Sponberg, Goldman,…

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