Robotics Club HSRW

This is a student project using Deeplearning model to recognize Human Facials as well as Human Facial Expressions.

In this project, we uses deep learning to classify different species of plants within the University campus. The aim of this project is to determine which plants are useful and which ones are not. Thus in the future we can integrate in with our Field robot to autonomously eliminate those unfavorable plant species. Field robot is developed as a solution to tackle the challenges of autonomously controlling the vehicle in a field and automatically track and eliminate undesirable plants species (i.e: weed). This robot was built completely from scratch by our team members.

Mini Mars Rovers were designed to participate in the Matlab Competition: Mission on Mars. The robots must navigate the area, recognize the objects, and avoid obstacles. These robots are completely build from scratch based on the open-source blue print design from Mathworks.

A student project in the past, which was developed for an autonomous take off and landing system for conventional drone. The drone was modified to have a landing gear so that it would land in the upright position always.

Baxter Research Robot is a two-arm collaborative robot that combines a number of unique technologies designed to allow deployment without some of the traditional safeguard. It is used for simple industrial jobs such as loading, unloading, sorting, and handling of materials. Brooks stated that Baxter was designed to perform the dull tasks on a production line. It is intended to be sold to small and medium-sized companies.

Baxter has an animated screen for a "face" that allows it to display multiple facial expressions determined by its current status. There are sets of sensors on its head that allow it to sense people nearby and give Baxter the ability to adapt to its environment. These sensors give Baxter the ability to adapt to its surroundings, unlike other industrial robots which will either shut down or continue running incorrectly when their environment changes.(Source: Wikipedia)

Waale is an autonomous, programmable humanoid robot developed by Aldebaran Robotics, a French robotics company headquartered in Paris, which was acquired by SoftBank Group in 2015 and rebranded as SoftBank Robotics.

In the HSRW Robotic Laboratory, we have developed Waale to talk and answer simple question from human. We also connect it with lab facilities and others in our Internet of Things project, thus we can give commands to Waale (by speaking) in order to turn on/off the light, ask Turtle Bot delivering the food, or tell Baxter to grab and give the drinks to our guesses.

Ampere is a mobile manipulator robot based on the Summit-XL mobile robot platform. It has holonomic drive for indoor navigation and skid steering for outdoor. It is equipped with UR5 arm from universal robot and two fingered adaptive grippers. For the navigation and manipulation task, the robot uses 2D laser scanner and stereo camera.

Those are low-cost robot kit for educational purpose which comes with open-source software and Robotic Operating System (ROS). With them, we have applied SLAM algorithms to map an artificial maze, deliver drinks and food to guest, as well as follow human.