See Students page for information on graduated/completed students and their work.

Selected Design Projects:

•  A MECE 460 team developed a design for a robotic tool for core drilling on Mars at depths of up to 5 m (S Dwyer, N Olmedo, J Patzer, J Yuen). The Mars drill team won the CSME National Student Design Competition in Victoria in June 2010. (Wow, that was a while ago.)
•  A MECE 460 team then developed a design for a robotic tool for taking samples of soft tailings (B Ferguson, M Janssen, N Kummer , K Martin), which is now being commercialized. This system architecture is the basis for deep sampling tooling now being used for tailings soil characterization.

Syncrude Research

• Extraction Process Research: improved recovery and product quality of bitumen from oilsand/water slurries
• Optimal Trajectory Generation for Control of a Separation Process
• Integrated Systems and Reliability Research: anomaly detection and mode classification for equipment operating in non-steady state
• Mining Automation: autonomous excavation and condition monitoring over wireless nondeterministic communication networks
• Leader of a team of twenty researchers and six technologists.

AECL, Chalk River Laboratories

• Condition-based maintenance and reliability of systems
• Remote tooling and robotic systems development for reactor maintenance
• Robotic excavation: integrating range-vision for telerobotic control in remote environments with geometric uncertainty

Queen’s University

• Robot Looseness Fault Diagnosis
• Design of a High-Bandwidth Haptic Interface for a Planar Hybrid Position/Force Hand Controller

Kyoto University

• Transition between Proximity and Force Control of a Robotic Manipulator