Intelligent Systems and Assistive Technologies Lab » Lab Visits

Dr. Gregory Hager, JHU, visits ISAT

ISAT — Fri, 06 Apr 2018 23:18:16 +0000

Dr. Juan P. Wachs and members of ISAT laboratory welcomed Dr. Gregory Hager, from John Hopkins University, during his visit to Purdue University on April 4th, 2018.

Glebys Gonzales and Natalia Sanchez Tamayo demonstrated ABB YUMI, with 3D-printed surgical gripper, performed suture needle manipulation.

Maria Cabrera demonstrated the telementoring system through Augmented Reality on the Hololens.

Prof. Allison Okamura, Stanford, visits Purdue

ISAT — Fri, 23 Mar 2018 18:37:04 +0000

Dr. Allison Okamura visited Purdue University as a guest presenter for the Purdue Robotics Accelerator initiative. Her seminar was on March 23rd, 2018.

Prof. Okamura’s research focuses on developing the principles and tools needed to realize advanced robotic and human-machine systems capable of haptic (touch) interaction, particularly for biomedical applications. Haptic systems are designed and studied using both analytical and experimental approaches.

As a part of her visit, Prof. Okamura visited the ISAT lab where graduate students presented some of the research projects currently active.

Tian Zhou, a PhD Candidate, showed his work involving the WAM Robot picking and delivering surgical instruments and his research regarding turn-taking in human-robot collaboration.

Natalia Sanchez and Glebys Gonzalez presented the collaborative robot YuMi (ABB) which has been adapted through rapid prototyping, with extended grippers for research in robotic assisted surgery. Additionally, Prof. Okamura tested the HTC Vive virtual reality headset and controllers.

To finalize the visit, Prof. Okamura participated as an impromptu trainee to showcase the functionality of the STAR telementoring system, wearing the HoloLens (Microsoft), through which annotations are overlayed using augmented reality in the user’s field of view.

https://Engineering.Purdue.Edu/isat/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/VID_20180323_095511.mp4

Rodney Brooks visits ISAT Lab

ISAT — Sat, 05 Apr 2014 00:59:29 +0000

Rodney Brooks, PhD, has been a professor of robotics at MIT, was co-founder of iRobot, is an international scholar, and is now chief evangelist (aka founder, chairman and chief technology officer) at Rethink Robotics. He has consistently revolutionized the field of robotics worldwide.

Dr. Brooks visited Purdue as the featured guest of for the National Robotics Week by the Purdue Robotics Accelerator on April 8th, 2014.

As part of his visit, he toured the ISAT lab were graduate students members discussed and showcased their research projects regarding: robotic teleoperation, computer-vision techniques applied to surgical telementoring, and gesture recognition towards assistive technologies for people with quadriplegia.

Dr. Brooks’ talk can be found at this YouTube link