Meeting location: Faculty of Engineering, Torrington Place, London WC1E 7JE
Time slots:
Monday, May 29: 09.00 -12.00 and 14.00 -17.00
Friday, June 2: 09.00 -12.00 and 14.00 -17.00
1) Soft Haptics & Robotics lab - https://helge-wurdemann.com/softhapticslab
Tour description:
This tour will give an overview of soft material haptic and robotic systems emerging from the UCL Soft Haptics and Robotics Lab. Demonstrations will include prototypes that have the ability to change their shape and compliance on demand bridging the gap between traditional rigid and entirely soft robots. The team creates and embeds innovative stiffness-controllable mechanisms as well as combines advanced Artificial Intelligence with control strategies in these robotic prototypes. Applications include minimally invasive interventions, transport, and manufacturing.
2) Field Robotics and Learning Lab
Tour description:
This lab visit will showcase the most recent research about advanced marine autonomy at UCL MechEng. The visit will include a demonstration of 1) stability control of autonomous underwater vehicles under varying sea state conditions, 2) surveying of underwater structures, 3) cooperative control of multi-agent systems, and etc.
3) Bioinspired adaptable robotics lab
Tour description:
The Bioinspired Adaptable Robotics Lab is focussed on using nature as inspiration to develop robotic devices that using their embodiment, morphology, and compliance they adapt to their changing environment. This tour will showcase the bioinspired devices that we have developed and comprise these characteristics.