Current projects

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The Intelligent Machine Dynamics Laboratory is currently involved in a number of projects, including those in the following areas.

Fluid Power Systems and Control

• Rescue Robot
• Operator Interface for Mobile Equipment
1. Excavator Interface
2. Haptic Backhoe
3. Shared Control
• Efficient Hydraulic Controls
1. Adaptive Control
2. Shared Control
3. Hydraulic Hardware in the Loop Simulation
• Digital Clay

Flexible Motion Systems

• Brian Post’s work
• Inertial Stiffness Control of Flexible Macro-Micro Manipulators

Automated Garment Manufacturing

• Fabric Tracking
• Fabric Control & Actuation

Affiliated Projects

• Distributed Protocols for Coordinating Puppets

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...and some not so current projects...
Hall of Fame (past projects with nice pages)

• Active vibration control of flexible base manipulators
• Collaboration and Demonstration over the Internet
• Control of Fluid Pressure Transients in Distributed Media
• High Performance Motion Systems through Complementary Technologies
• Human-Robot Interaction Utilizing Passive and Active Haptic Displays
• Mega Robots: Long-Reach, Hydraulic, Flexible
• Multi-Body Simulator (MBSim)
• Ultrasonic sensor model and configuration simulations
• Reactive Path Shaping (RPS)
• Manufacturing mobile robots
• Adaptive Impedence Control for Haptic Interfaces
• End-point position sensing and control by landmark tracking camera
• Command Filtering to Prevent Vibration in Long Reach Manipulators
• Modification of a Cincinnati Milicron Industrial Robot
• Development of a Multi-Tasking Control Environment
• Macro/Micro manipulation for long reach applications
• Teleoperation of Long Reach Manipulators

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