Tuesday, July 21, 2009

2009 ARMLAB/CSTEP Summer Robotics Workshop Highlights

This summer, working with CSTEP (The Collegiate Science and Technology Entry Program) and LSAMP (The University at Buffalo (UB) Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation), our lab hosted a 5-weeks Summer Robotics Workshop. Total of four students (Buay Nhial, Christopher Williams, Nercy Moreno, and Osaka Shepherd) choose to work in our lab. The workshop run from June 1, 2009 to July 9, 2009.

In this workshop (The website for the workshop is here), student learned to perform literature search, writing reports, as well as learning to use various computational tools (SolidWorks, MAPLE, MATLAB). The following video highlight some of the activities in the summer workshop.



Student projects, presentations, photos, etc can be found here.

Friday, July 17, 2009

2009 ARMLAB/CSTEP Summer Robotics Workshop - Poster Presentation

This summer, working with CSTEP (The Collegiate Science and Technology Entry Program) and LSAMP (The University at Buffalo (UB) Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation), our lab hosted a 5-weeks Summer Robotics Workshop. Four students worked in our lab. The workshop run from June 1, 2009 to July 9, 2009.

On July 15, Wednesday, students presented their research in the form of a poster at the Research Symposium & Award Luncheon, held at Center for Tomorrow (UB North Campus) from 11:00am - 2:00pm. Two of our students - Nercy Moreno and Christopher Williams, were selected as student representative to give their thought on the program in the Symposium.

The following is a video highlighting the poster presentation, speeches by Nercy and Christ, and award presentation to all our students:

Thursday, July 16, 2009

2009 ARMLAB/CSTEP Summer Robotics Workshop - Oral Presentation

This summer our lab (working with CSTEP and LSAMP ) hosted a Summer Robotics Workshop. Four students joined the workshop: Buay Nhial, Christopher Williams, Nercy Moreno, and Osaka Shepherd. The workshop run from June 1, 2009 to July 9, 2009. As this workshop come to an end, they gave an oral presentation on July 14, 2009.

Here is the video playlist of their presentations:


more videos summerizing the workshop will be posted soon!

Monday, July 6, 2009

First Flight of Quadrotor

The first quadrotor of the planned fleet takes its maiden flight (rather its hop-skip-and-a-jump) around the lab!!! It can be controlled currently with either (i) the hand-held RC Controller or (ii) a joystick connected to the PC.

1. Movie of the test flight with Remote Controller:


2. Movie of the test flight with Joystick Control:



For more info: http://mechatronics.eng.buffalo.edu

Friday, July 3, 2009

6DOF Parallel Architecture Motion Platform in the ARMLAB

Testing of the 6DOF Parallel-Architecture Motion Platform:


We are currently using this system in various projects.
Visit: http://mechatronics.eng.buffalo.edu for more info.