Modular self-reconfigurable robotic systems have strong self-adaptation and self-healing ability, which makes it capable of coping with various tasks in complex and changeable environments. Most existing modular self-reconfigurable robots have connection constraints on the mechanical structure.
The omni-directional kart, named “OK-1”, is a hybrid electric vehicle with technology of omni-directional steering, which is designed and developed in the Advance Robotics Lab. It is omni-directional, because it can make crab-like parallel translation and tornado-like rotation.
The objective of the development of Treebot is to assist or replace human being in performing forestry tasks on trees.
The team has actively arranged the research and development of marine robot system. The marine robot team has established a core scientific research team of more than 10 people, including 3 professors (overseas high-level talents), 4 doctors, 6 doctoral students, 3 engineers and research assistants.
Chinese calligraphy not only brings us aesthetic, but also is beneficial to our mind and body. It is popular in China, especially among the elderly. We have developed a calligraphy robot which helps teach the elderly calligraphy. The robot is also helpful for rehabilitation after stroke.
Today we face two major crises: the problem of energy and emission. The hybrid electric vehicle (HEV) concept is the best approach to solve them, as it saves fuel energy by optimizing the vehicle power and at the same time reduces pollution by controlling the emission.
Robotic technologies are beneficial for future space exploration for high productivity, low cost, and high reliability.
We have developed a novel concept of mobile robot called Gyrover with a single-wheel profile, based on the principle of gyroscopic precession, as exhibited in stability of a rolling wheel.
We are developing a novel concept of real-time wearable translating glasses, named intelligent glasses, which can realize real-time multilingual translation. It is useful to a tourist who does not know the local language.
