Robotics

The department advances robotic capabilities, automation, and intelligent sensing, targeting applications in diverse areas such as robotic-assisted surgery, cell manipulation, unmanned vehicles, and service robotics for railway and aerospace maintenance.

Research projects

Development of a Robotic Fruit Harvesting System

This project aimed to develop a semi-autonomous robotic apple harvesting platform to address the manual labour shortage experienced by local growers during peak harvesting seasons. By integrating Monash University's sophisticated robotic manipulator into a commercially available fruit harvesting platform, the project holds great potential to reduce reliance on seasonal manual labour, ensure consistent and sufficient harvesting capacity, and enhance productivity and sustainability in the Australian agricultural industry.

Development of an Active Lower Limb Exoskeleton

This project aims to fill the gap associated with the absence of suitable hand prostheses for young amputees, by means of creating novel solutions on prosthetic finger design and user intention detection. The new finger design features highly anthropomorphic motion, enhanced grasping force capability, grasping adaptability, and promoted scalability.

Scalable Robotic Hand Prostheses for Children

This project aims to fill the gap associated with the absence of suitable hand prostheses for young amputees, by means of creating novel solutions on prosthetic finger design and user intention detection. The new finger design features highly anthropomorphic motion, enhanced grasping force capability, grasping adaptability, and promoted scalability.

Remote Centre of Motion Mechanism for Minimally Invasive Surgical Robots

The objective of this project is to create a remote centre of motion mechanism, for use in minimally invasive surgical procedures. The project is motivated by the bulkiness of the existing remote centre of motion mechanism, e.g., the parallelogram.

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