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Foundations of Robotics - Chapter 17 Robot Hexapod Build Labs

A guide to a textbook chapter I wrote for robotic enthuisiats!

Posted on February 4, 2024

Helpful content to those who read my book chapter. While comments are enabled on this post, there’s a chance I’ll miss them. Feel free to contact me though linkedin, git, discord or whatever (see links at the website footer). [Read More]
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Final Thoughts on my Doctorate

Skills and Insights Gained

Posted on December 14, 2023

This is just a final post and reflection on my PhD project. [Read More]
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- research
- PhD
- textiles
- waste
- robotics
Making a Quadruped Robot

Exploring a Proposed Multi-Gait System

Posted on November 15, 2023

Introduction to the Project This project was inspired by a conversation at the pub where the question, “What if a spider robot could also walk with a dog-like gait?”. With this train of thought, a student completed their bachelor’s with a Capstone project I supervised that brought this proposed device... [Read More]
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- locomotion
- supervisor
- design
- quadruped
- robotics
My PhD Part 4 - Applying Reinforcement Learning to the Gripper

Learning in Simulation and Deploying to Hardware

Posted on April 17, 2023

This blog post is part of a series summarising my PhD project and the steps to complete my degree. The information in this blog post discusses reinforcement learning techniques that use the custom gripper to leverage environmental constraints while grasping. Refer to thesis for full details. [Read More]
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- research
- PhD
- textiles
- reinforcement learning
- RL
- learning
- manipulation
- ML
- AI
- robotics
My PhD Part 3 - Modelling, Designing and Fabricating a Novel Gripper

How You Take a Conceptual Design to Research Prototype

Posted on November 2, 2022

This blog post is part of a series summarising my PhD project and the steps to complete my degree. The information in this blog post discusses the modelling and fabrication process outlined in Chapter 4 used to create a gripper prototype. Refer to thesis for full details. [Read More]
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- research
- PhD
- textiles
- mechanics
- design
- fabrication
- robotics
My PhD Part 2 - Inspired Textile Manipulation from an Anthropamoprhic Perspective

Deriving Insight into Gripper Design

Posted on June 7, 2022

This blog post is part of a series summarising my PhD project and the steps to complete my degree. The information in this blog post is an overview of the human-centric approach of Chapter 3 used to inspire a novel gripper design. Refer to thesis for full details. [Read More]
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- research
- PhD
- textiles
- HRI
- anthropomorphic
- taxonomies
- human
- survey
- analysis
- investigation
- robotics
My PhD Part 1 - The Motivation and Proposal

Pursuing Research in Textile Waste Automation

Posted on May 26, 2022

This blog post is part of a series summarising my PhD project and the steps to complete my degree. The information in this blog post outlines the introductory chapter of my thesis (downloadable here). Information includes the motivation, areas of investigation and summary of key contributions. [Read More]
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- research
- PhD
- textiles
- waste
- robotics
The Articulated Head

Making an Interactive Attention Driven Robotic Exhibit

Posted on August 12, 2021

The Articulated Head exhibit was a component of the larger scale Thinking Head Project [1], and is a recreation of a previous exhibit [2] design project undertaken by my supervisor. As a result, this article also refers to online resources (see the final section Links) regarding this project’s history in... [Read More]
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- research
- AHAI
- design
- articulated
- head
- art
- UR10
- Stelarc
- design
- HRI
The UR10 Drawing Project

Creating an Interative and Collaborative Artisitic Exhibit for the Public

Posted on February 2, 2021

Project Background [Read More]
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- robot
- art
- UR10
- drawing
- HRI
- WOZ
- collaboration

Foundations of Robotics - Chapter 17 Robot Hexapod Build Labs

A guide to a textbook chapter I wrote for robotic enthuisiats!

Final Thoughts on my Doctorate

Skills and Insights Gained

Making a Quadruped Robot

Exploring a Proposed Multi-Gait System

My PhD Part 4 - Applying Reinforcement Learning to the Gripper

Learning in Simulation and Deploying to Hardware

My PhD Part 3 - Modelling, Designing and Fabricating a Novel Gripper

How You Take a Conceptual Design to Research Prototype

My PhD Part 2 - Inspired Textile Manipulation from an Anthropamoprhic Perspective

Deriving Insight into Gripper Design

My PhD Part 1 - The Motivation and Proposal

Pursuing Research in Textile Waste Automation

The Articulated Head

Making an Interactive Attention Driven Robotic Exhibit

The UR10 Drawing Project

Creating an Interative and Collaborative Artisitic Exhibit for the Public