Virtual reality and psHRI
Virtual reality is a powerful tool to achieve contextually-rich interactions while maintaining a low-cost environment for studying psHRI.
Research Projects
Robot-to-Human Grasping
How and where a robot grasps a human may elicit different emotional responses from the human. What are the key factors and how can robots deliberately exploit these emotional responses to achieve a desired reaction?
Robots in Retail
Exploring the use of robots in retail spaces to assist shoppers, especially to help those may have visual or mobility impairments.
Comfort in psHRI
Users must feel comfortable when interacting with robots prior to mass adoption. This early-stage project involves examining several factors that may involve interactions between robots and humans, especially the elderly.
Sensor Observability Analysis
Sensor Observability Analysis aims to quantify the quality of sensor observations of task-space quantities based on the robot configuration.
Touch in pHRI
Development of pHRI techniques with a particular focus on multimodal touch interpretation and intention detection for the goal of achieving safe, comfortable, and intuitive autonomous pHRI.
Single Cell Manipulation
Automating single cell surgery and manipulation techniques on early-stage embryos, particluarly related to pre-implantation genetic diagnosis (PGD).
Hyrbrid Quadruped Posture Generation and Step Climbing
Posture reconfiguration and step climbing maneuvers for the hybrid wheel-legged quadruped Micro-Hydraulic Toolkit (MHT). In collaboration with Defense Research and Development Canada (DRDC) Suffield