It’s been a busy couple of weeks for conferences in the lab.
Denny and Raphael travelled to Lincoln – a town just outside Christchurch in New Zealand for the Annual Australian Control, Robotics and Automation Conference (ACRA). At the conference, Raphael presented on his work investigating the suitability of bone conduction transducers as a feedback mechanism for prostheses.
Two presentations were also made at the Australia and New Zealand Control Conference held in our home city of Melbourne. This included Gijo’s work on Iterative Learning Control entitled “Iterative Learning Control for Linear Time-varying Systems with Input and Output Constraints”.
And Florence’s work on Surgical Robotics – “Robustness Evaluation of Internal Model Principle-Based Controller in a Magnetically Actuated Surgical System” – which won the best interactive presentation prize. Congratulations Florence!
Finally, we have also recently had two papers accepted for the 9th International IEEE EMBS Conference on Neural Engineering (NER19), to be held in March in San Francisco, USA, next year! Well done to Jing and Vincent who led these two papers.
You can view the finalised papers on our Publications Page.
Congratulations to Wences, who presented his completion seminar last Monday. His research into robust object manipulation with a view to prosthetic applications has produced some very impressive results (see the Publications Page).
Wences will be heading to Europe for a post doctoral position next year.
Well done Wences!
The Human-Robotics Laboratory has moved to new offices at the Space Lab – up just one floor from our old location.
Our new facilities come equipped with new facilities including sit-stand desks, new monitors and docking stations, meeting rooms and a well-equipped kitchen. We’re looking forward to making the most of our new home.
Wences is particularly happy with the move.
After submitting her thesis a couple of weeks ago, Florence has already landed a job at Axxin – a company which provides platforms and diagnostic products for biomedical applications. Florence will be starting as a Systems Engineer very soon.
Well done Florence – we’ll miss you and Lil Pumpkin around the lab.
Last week, Dr Alireza Mohammadi and Mr Demy Kremers presented at the International Conference on NeuroRehabilitation (ICNR2018) in Pisa, Italy.
Alireza presented his paper “X-Limb: A Soft Prosthetic Hand – Towards the Most Usable Hand Prostheses”, which is part of our Advanced Prosthetics project.
Demy – our intern from Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) who was with us at the Human-Robotics laboratory earlier this year – presented his paper titled “Sensorless Force Estimator in Rehabilitation Robotics” from our work in Assistive and Rehabilitation Robotics.
Demy presenting on Wednesday
Alireza presenting on Friday
Well done Alireza and Demy!
Florence Leong did her completion seminar this morning on her PhD Thesis – “Trans-barrier Local Magnetic Actuation for Abdominal Surgery”.
Congratulations Florence!
Today we were at the launch of the new Australian Research Council (ARC) Training Centre in Cognitive Computing for Medical Technologies, which will develop artificial intelligence (AI) applications for medical technologies, which was officially opened by Senator Jane Hume. PhD Candidate Jing Mu, A/Prof. Denny Oetomo and A/Prof. Ying Tan were at the launch to demonstrate some of the work we have done in the Advanced Prosthetics project.
Jing Mu and A/Prof Denny Oetomo demonstrating our work to IBM Research Australia Lab Director Professor Iven Mareels and Senator Jane Hume at today’s launch
Read more here!
Alireza has just returned from the 2018 Australian Orthotic Prosthetic Association (AOPA) Congress on the Gold Coast, where he presented “X-Limb: A Soft Prosthetic Hand”.
