AMP-ED Up! National Amputee Conference

Lab members Raphael and Ricardo last week attended the “AMP-ED Up!” National Amputee Conference in Canberra.

“AMP-ED Up!” brought together amputees, prosthetic manufacturing companies, assistive technology suppliers and a variety of other speakers to provide information and education from those in the sector.

Raphael and Ricardo set up a stand with Ricardo’s Virtual Reality Equipment and various prototypes and technologies from the Human Robotics Lab, allowing members of the public to learn more about the work we are doing here in the lab.


Welcome to Mechanical Engineering – A/Prof Ying Tan

Today we officially welcome Associate Professor Ying Tan to the Department of Mechanical Engineering.

A/Prof Tan has moved across from Electrical Engineering, a move which will strengthen our connection with her and her research – if for no other reason than that she will be in the same building as us!

Congratuations Ying!


A Visit from Aussie Hands

Yesterday we were proud to host representatives from the Aussie Hands Foundation – a local support group for people with hand differences.

Elizabeth Serpell, the Founder and Vice-President of Aussie Hands, and Julie McNally, the Victoria Representative, visited our laboratory to discuss the research we are performing in our Advanced Prosthetics Project

It is always a pleasure and privilege to be in touch with the potential real end-users of our research.


Welcome Yu and Zeyu

This month we’d like to welcome Yu Xia and Zeyu Li.

Yu Xia comes from Harbin, China, and recently completed his Masters of Mechanical Engineering here at the University of Melbourne. He will be joining the Advanced Prostheses Project.

Zeyu Li also completed a Master of Electronic and Electrical Engineering at the University of Melbourne. He has previously worked with the lab last year, and will continue his research within the Assistive and Rehabilitative Robotics Project.

We welcome them both and wish them well!


Raphael Confirms

Congratulations to Raphael, who presented (and passed!) his confirmation seminar yesterday.

Raphael’s work investigates the use of vibrotactile actuators placed on bony parts of the body (such as the elbow) as a mechanism for providing feedback about a prosthetic to its user.


The UoM and Fourier Intelligence Robotics Lab Officially Opens

On Friday 8th February 2019, the University of Melbourne and Fourier Intelligence Robotics Laboratory was officially opened. The Opening Ceremony was conducted within the Space Lab facilities at the University of Melbourne. Introductions were given by A/Prof. Denny Oetomo and Fourier Intelligence CEO Alex Gu before the Laboratory was officially opened by Dean of the Melbourne School of Engineering, Professor Mark Cassidy.


Visitors were then treated to tours of the laboratory space proper, with demonstrations of the rehabilitation robots and facilities were conducted.


We were thrilled to have almost 50 guests in attendance, and would like to thank everyone for their support and contribution to progressing the laboratory to this point. We look forward to seeing you all in the future as we continue our scientific progress in the field of assistive and rehabilitative robotics!


Gijo’s Thesis is Complete!

Hot on the heels of Wences’ thesis submission, Gijo has also completed his thesis.

Gijo will be continuing at the University of Melbourne in a Post Doctoral position – we’re more than happy to have him here.

Well done Gijo!



Gijo Completes!

In the excitement of the holiday break, we’ve forgotten to announce that Gijo Sebastian has presented his completion seminar on the 21st of December. Gijo’s work presented a number of new results on iterative learning control, and has resulted in many publications, which you can read on our Publications page.

Congratulations Gijo!


Introducing Dr Michael (Man Choong) Lei!

Michael Lei is now Dr Michael Lei after his attending his graduation last week. Michael’s thesis investigated how the wrapping of the cable in a cable-driven parallel manipulator (CDPM) can be modelled and exploited for actuation.

You can read all about it in his thesis here.

Congratulations Dr Lei!


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