Final Thoughts on my Doctorate
Skills and Insights Gained
This is just a final post and reflection on my PhD project.
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Making a Quadruped Robot
Exploring a Proposed Multi-Gait System
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] -
My PhD Part 4 - Applying Reinforcement Learning to the Gripper
Learning in Simulation and Deploying to Hardware
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] -
My PhD Part 3 - Modelling, Designing and Fabricating a Novel Gripper
How You Take a Conceptual Design to Research Prototype
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] -
My PhD Part 2 - Inspired Textile Manipulation from an Anthropamoprhic Perspective
Deriving Insight into Gripper Design
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] -
My PhD Part 1 - The Motivation and Proposal
Pursuing Research in Textile Waste Automation
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] -
The Articulated Head
Making an Interactive Attention Driven Robotic Exhibit
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] -
The UR10 Drawing Project
Creating an Interative and Collaborative Artisitic Exhibit for the Public
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