Project Info
Design and control a robotic hand
Xiaoli Zhang
xlzhang@mines.edu
Project Goals and Description:
Design and make robot fingers to be integrated with a commercial robot hand
Determine the safety bound when controlling the robot hand
Tuning the Kalman Filter to improve the quality of the hand tracking data
Conduct experiments to evaluate robot control methods
Data collection and data analysis of experiment results
More Information:
Grand Challenge: Not applicable.
https://xzhanglab.mines.edu
Primary Contacts:
Xiaoli Zhang, xlzhang@mines.edu| Michael Bowman, mibowman@mines.edu
Student Preparation
Qualifications
Design tools like SolidWorks
Programming tools like MATLAB, C++, ROS
TIME COMMITMENT (HRS/WK)
4~8 hours/week
SKILLS/TECHNIQUES GAINED
Robotics design, development, control, and testing skills
MENTORING PLAN
Weekly meetings;
Hands-on projects;
Technical report/publications with the student as the co-author
PREFERRED STUDENT STATUS
Sophomore
Junior
Senior