Human Centered Robotics Lab

Products / Services

Pro G (The Tool Crane)

The Pro G is designed to reduce fatigue and improve worker safety while handling heavy tools. It is also great for improving worker efficiency as long as they stay within a relatively small area and need to use large tools such as grinders, hand drill machines, etc.

Integrated EtherCAT Solutions

A distributed mechatronic system requires fast communication between embedded controllers or processors to synchronize sensing and actuation without signaling delays. To date, many communication protocols have been used in research/industrial projects i.e., SPI, I2C, UART, and CAN Bus, etc. However, precision, reliability, and speed are the three factors that are essential for Industrial Automation Systems. Ethernet for Control Automation Technology (EtherCAT) is based on the CANopen protocol and on Ethernet but differs from internet communication or network communications in being specifically optimized for industrial automation control. We provide an EtherCAT solution for a multi-axis automation system. It deploys a fast and deterministic communication network that processes data using dedicated hardware and software modules. It uses a full-duplex, master-slave configuration, and can accommodate any topology. It can process 1,000 I/O points in 30 microseconds and communicate with 100 servo axes in 100 microseconds. The axes receive setpoint values and control data and report actual position and status. Axes are synchronized using a distributed clock technique which is a simplified version of IEEE 1588 and reduces jitter to less than 1 microsecond. It delivers high throughput because messages are processed in hardware before being forwarded to the next slave. All EtherCAT slaves update data stream on the fly by the EtherCAT slaves, thereby minimizing the processing delays are typically just a few nanoseconds. Overall schematic of our EtherCAT solution can be found in Fig.0-2

ECG Monitoring Device

An electrocardiogram (ECG or EKG) records the electrical signal from your heart to check for different heart conditions. Electrodes are placed on your chest to record your heart's electrical signals, which cause your heart to beat

Ankle Prosthesis [Coming Soon]

Active prostheses compensate the patients for mobility impairments caused by partly or fully dysfunctional links. In spite of the rapid technological advances, prosthetic devices find it difficult to lower metabolic costs to their wearers and do not provide for seamless switching between limb activities.

7-DoF Cobot [Coming Soon]

Collaborative robots allow safe physical interaction and synergistically share the workspace with other robots and human co-workers. These robots can be efficiently programmed by means of physical stimuli and percepts without extensive reconfigurability of their hardware or software components. The lab is indigenously developing a 7-DOF collaborative robot for typical industrial applications.

Powered Exo-skeleton [Coming Soon]

Exoskeletons are wearable robotic suits for assisting humans in everyday tasks or post-stroke rehabilitation. These are designed to reduce muscle fatigue by minimizing the contact force between human body and exoskeleton hardware, while ensuring wearability, safety, ergonomics, and device power consumption.