He will join the dept. of Kinesiology at UMass Amherst as a Post-doctoral Research Associate. A 'farewell' luncheon were held in Kebab and Curry restaurant with some of the lab members.
Saturday, December 11, 2010
Leng-feng completed his Ph.D.
Joined the lab while he is an undergraduate student in 2001, Leng-Feng completed his senior design project (2003), M.S. thesis (2005), and now his Ph.D. dissertation with Dr. Krovi. His dissertation committee members are Dr. Mayne, Dr. Soom, and Dr. Mendel.
He will join the dept. of Kinesiology at UMass Amherst as a Post-doctoral Research Associate. A 'farewell' luncheon were held in Kebab and Curry restaurant with some of the lab members.
He will join the dept. of Kinesiology at UMass Amherst as a Post-doctoral Research Associate. A 'farewell' luncheon were held in Kebab and Curry restaurant with some of the lab members.
Friday, December 10, 2010
12th International Symposium on Experimental Robotics, 2010
Dr. Krovi will be presenting at the 12th International Symposium on Experimental Robotics, in New Dehli and Agra, India, with paper titled "The Reconfigurable Omnidirectional Articulated Mobile Robot (ROAMeR)", co-author with QiuShi Fu and Xiaobo Zhou.
About ISER:
About ISER:
ISER is a series of bi-annual symposia, which have been held successively in Montréal (Canada), Toulouse (France), Kyoto (Japan), Stanford (USA), Barcelona (Spain), Sydney (Australia), Honolulu (USA), Sant’Angelo (Italy), Singapore, Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), and Athens (Greece)The paper will be available for download after the conference! A video of the robot is shown here:
The goal of these symposia is to provide a forum dedicated to Experimental Robotics Research. The number of papers presented during the symposium is small (less than 50) and the meeting is single track in order to maximize interaction between participants. Papers should focus on theories and principles, which have been validated by experiments, and on experimental paradigms and designs that inspire new theoretical approaches. Papers which discuss how theoretical conjectures were invalidated, revised, or confirmed and present details of experimental implementations and practice are of great interest.
Colin Lea among five UB students nominated for Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship.
Colin Lea, who is an undergraduate student working is among one of the five UB students nominated for Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship. Congratulation! [link]
"Colin Lea of Oswego is pursuing a degree in mechanical engineering and is president of UB Robotics, an undergraduate engineering club. He performs research in UB's Automation, Robotics and Mechatronics Lab and has been awarded two Zimmer Awards for research on human-robot interaction and haptic device design and control. Lea plans to pursue graduate research in the areas of robotics and interaction."
Elementary school kids learn about Robotics and Haptics
On 19 Oct. 2010, about 20 kids from local elementary schools visited our lab. Mrs. Julie Tarbell, who organized the field trip, is also UB graduate. The kids learned about the research in the lab, and have the opportunity to try out some of the haptic simulations created in our lab.
Picture: Dr. Krovi explaining to the crowd as the kids trying out the haptic simulation with the Novint Falcon.
Picture: Haptic-Teleoperate the Hexapod using the High Definition Haptic Device (HD)2.
2010 North American Summer School in Surgical Robotics and Simulation
Leng-Feng and Madu are 2 of the 50 selected students to attend the "2010 North American Summer School in Surgical Robotics and Simulation" held in University of Washington, on 23-27 August, 2010. They presented their posters there as well. See the summer school website here.
In this picture: (from left to right), Madu, Dr. Chizeck, Leng-Feng, Dr. Hannaford, Dr. Howe, Dr. Poignet, and Dr. Taylor.
Monday, October 4, 2010
IEEE CASE 2010 Conference Workshop Presentation
•Dr. Venkat Krovi, SUNY Buffalo
•Aden Seaman, University of Waterloo
•Dr. Orang Vahid, University of Waterloo
•Paul Karam, Quanser
Details of the workshop can be found here
Sunday, October 3, 2010
Best Poster Award - IEEE CASE Conference
Hrishi's researh poster accompanying conference paper (with Madu, Dr. Krovi as co-authors) titled "CAD-Enhanced Workspace Optimization for Parallel Manipulators: A Case Study” won the "Best Poster Award" at The 6th annual IEEE Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (IEEE CASE), sponsored by the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (RAS), held on August 21-24, 2010 in Marriott Eaton Centre Hotel, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Screenshot from conference website (CASE 2010):
Congratulation!
Screenshot from conference website (CASE 2010):
Congratulation!
Friday, August 20, 2010
2010 ASME Dynamic Systems and Control Conference
The 3rd Annual Dynamic Systems and Control (DSC) conference sponsored by the Dynamic Systems and Control Division (DSCD) of ASME International will be held September 13-15, 2010 in Cambridge, Massachusetts (link).
Our lab will present a paper title "Role of Automated Symbolic Generation of Plant Models in Control Education" at this conference.
Stay tuned for more details!
Our lab will present a paper title "Role of Automated Symbolic Generation of Plant Models in Control Education" at this conference.
Stay tuned for more details!
6th annual IEEE Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (IEEE CASE)
The 6th annual IEEE Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (IEEE CASE), sponsored by the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (RAS), will be held on August 21-24, 2010 in Marriott Eaton Centre Hotel, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Hrishi will present a paper titled "CAD-Enhanced Workspace Optimization for Parallel Manipulators: A Case Study” at this conference. His poster with this paper was also selected as one of the finalist for "Best Poster Award" - wish him luck!
In addition to paper presentation, working with Quanser Inc. & MapleSoft, Dr, Krovi will present our work in the "Advancing Mechatronics Research and Innovation and Efficient High-fidelity Modeling of Physical Systems" workshop (link).
Since the conference is only 2 hrs drive away, Leng-Feng, Madu, Xiao Bo, Priyanshu and Hrishi are also volunteers for this conference!
More info will be available after the conference!
Hrishi will present a paper titled "CAD-Enhanced Workspace Optimization for Parallel Manipulators: A Case Study” at this conference. His poster with this paper was also selected as one of the finalist for "Best Poster Award" - wish him luck!
In addition to paper presentation, working with Quanser Inc. & MapleSoft, Dr, Krovi will present our work in the "Advancing Mechatronics Research and Innovation and Efficient High-fidelity Modeling of Physical Systems" workshop (link).
Since the conference is only 2 hrs drive away, Leng-Feng, Madu, Xiao Bo, Priyanshu and Hrishi are also volunteers for this conference!
More info will be available after the conference!
ASME 2010 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences (IDETC 2010)
The ASME 2010 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences (IDETC) and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference (CIE) took place from August 15-18, 2010 at the Fairmont Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montréal.
Our lab presented 3 papers in this conference:
-Madu presented a paper titled "Kinematic- Static- and Workspace Analysis of a 6- P-U-S Parallel Manipulator";
-Hrishi presented a paper titled "Role of Automated Symbolic Generation of Equations of Motion in Mechanism and Robotics Education"; and
-Priyanshu presented the paper titled "Simulation-based Design of Exoskeletal Using Musculoskeletal Analysis" (which is also the CIE 2010 Best Paper).
You can download the papers from:
[1] P. Agarwal, M. S. Narayanan, L-F. Lee, F. Mendel and V. N. Krovi, "Simulation-based Design of Exoskeletal Using Musculoskeletal Analysis", proceeding of ASME 2010 International Design Engineering Technical Conference, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, August 15-18, 2010. [PDF]
[2] M.S. Narayanan, Sourish Chakravarty, Hrishi Shah, and V.N. Krovi, "Kinematic- Static- and Workspace Analysis of a 6- P-U-S Parallel Manipulator", Proceedings of ASME 2010 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, August 15-18, 2010. [PDF]
[3] H. Shah, S. Tripathi, L-F. Lee, and V. Krovi, "Role of Automated Symbolic Generation of Equations of Motion in Mechanism and Robotics Education," proceeding of ASME 2010 International Design Engineering Technical Conference, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, August 15-18, 2010. [PDF]
Our lab presented 3 papers in this conference:
-Madu presented a paper titled "Kinematic- Static- and Workspace Analysis of a 6- P-U-S Parallel Manipulator";
-Hrishi presented a paper titled "Role of Automated Symbolic Generation of Equations of Motion in Mechanism and Robotics Education"; and
-Priyanshu presented the paper titled "Simulation-based Design of Exoskeletal Using Musculoskeletal Analysis" (which is also the CIE 2010 Best Paper).
You can download the papers from:
[1] P. Agarwal, M. S. Narayanan, L-F. Lee, F. Mendel and V. N. Krovi, "Simulation-based Design of Exoskeletal Using Musculoskeletal Analysis", proceeding of ASME 2010 International Design Engineering Technical Conference, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, August 15-18, 2010. [PDF]
[2] M.S. Narayanan, Sourish Chakravarty, Hrishi Shah, and V.N. Krovi, "Kinematic- Static- and Workspace Analysis of a 6- P-U-S Parallel Manipulator", Proceedings of ASME 2010 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, August 15-18, 2010. [PDF]
[3] H. Shah, S. Tripathi, L-F. Lee, and V. Krovi, "Role of Automated Symbolic Generation of Equations of Motion in Mechanism and Robotics Education," proceeding of ASME 2010 International Design Engineering Technical Conference, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, August 15-18, 2010. [PDF]
Best Paper Award - ASME 2010 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences (IDETC 2010)
The ASME 2010 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences (IDETC) and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference (CIE) took place during August 15-18, 2010 at the Fairmont Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montréal.
Congratulations to Priyanshu, Madu, Leng-Feng, Dr. Mendel and Dr. Krovi, for the paper titled "Simulation-Based Design of Exoskeletons Using Musculoskeletal Analysis" was selected as this year CIE 2010 Best Paper Award! Dr. Frederick Proctor, Chair of the ASME Computers and Information in Engineering Division wrote in the letter: "We went through a thorough review process that included vetting of the papers through our Technical Committee chairs with a second round of reviews at the Executive Committee level, and your paper stood out as an example of excellent technical results on a difficult problem with cross-disciplinary relevance to computers and information in engineering."
Priyanshu, Madu, Hrishi and Dr. Krovi went to the conference and Priyanshu presented the paper.
You can download the paper from:
P. Agarwal, M. S. Narayanan, L-F. Lee, F. Mendel and V. N. Krovi, "Simulation-based Design of Exoskeletal Using Musculoskeletal Analysis", proceeding of ASME 2010 International Design Engineering Technical Conference, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, August 15-18, 2010. (CIE 2010 Best Student Paper Award) [PDF]
Congratulations to Priyanshu, Madu, Leng-Feng, Dr. Mendel and Dr. Krovi, for the paper titled "Simulation-Based Design of Exoskeletons Using Musculoskeletal Analysis" was selected as this year CIE 2010 Best Paper Award! Dr. Frederick Proctor, Chair of the ASME Computers and Information in Engineering Division wrote in the letter: "We went through a thorough review process that included vetting of the papers through our Technical Committee chairs with a second round of reviews at the Executive Committee level, and your paper stood out as an example of excellent technical results on a difficult problem with cross-disciplinary relevance to computers and information in engineering."
Priyanshu, Madu, Hrishi and Dr. Krovi went to the conference and Priyanshu presented the paper.
You can download the paper from:
P. Agarwal, M. S. Narayanan, L-F. Lee, F. Mendel and V. N. Krovi, "Simulation-based Design of Exoskeletal Using Musculoskeletal Analysis", proceeding of ASME 2010 International Design Engineering Technical Conference, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, August 15-18, 2010. (CIE 2010 Best Student Paper Award) [PDF]
IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics (AIM 2010)
The 2010 IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics held on July 6-9, 2010 in Montreal, Canada. The purpose of the IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics (AIM), following the footsteps of the previous eight editions, is to promote activities in various areas of mechatronics by providing a forum for exchange of ideas, presentation of technical achievements, and discussion of future directions. The AIM brings together an international community of experts to discuss the state-of-the-art, new research results, perspectives of future developments, and innovative applications relevant to mechatronics, robotics, control, automation, and related areas.
Leng-Feng presented a paper titled "Kinematics Analysis of In-Parallel 5 DOF Haptic Device" at the conference. Xiao Bo and Dr. Krovi attended the conference as well.
You can download the paper from:
L-F Lee, M.S. Narayanan, F. Mendel, P. Karam and V.N. Krovi, "Kinematics Analysis of In-Parallel 5 DOF Haptic Device", Proceeding of 2010 IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics, Montreal, Canada, July 6-9, 2010. [PDF]
Leng-Feng presented a paper titled "Kinematics Analysis of In-Parallel 5 DOF Haptic Device" at the conference. Xiao Bo and Dr. Krovi attended the conference as well.
You can download the paper from:
L-F Lee, M.S. Narayanan, F. Mendel, P. Karam and V.N. Krovi, "Kinematics Analysis of In-Parallel 5 DOF Haptic Device", Proceeding of 2010 IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics, Montreal, Canada, July 6-9, 2010. [PDF]
ASEE Computers in Education Journal Special Issue
Our paper titled "Role of Automated Symbolic Generation of Equations of Motion to Enhance Robotics Education" was accepted to ASEE Computers in Education Journal Special Issue: Novel Approaches in Robotics Education!
Abstract of the paper: "In recent years there has been a significant increase in the variety and complexity of Articulated-Multi-Body-Systems (AMBS) used for various applications. There is also increased interest in the model-based design-refinement and controller-development, which is critically dependent upon availability of underlying plant-models.
Kinematic and dynamic plant-models for AMBSs can be formulated by systematic application of physics postulates. This process, in its various variants, forms the basis of various mechanisms/robotics courses. However, the type and complexity of the example systems is often limited by the tractability of first generating and subsequently analyzing system equations of motion. Nonetheless, it should be noted that using simpler examples alone may sometimes fail to capture important physical phenomena (e.g. gyroscopic, coriolis). Hence, we examine the use of some contemporary symbolic- and numeric-computation tools to assist with the automated symbolic equation generation, sensitivity analysis and development of model based controllers to enhance various robotics courses..."
Download the paper from:
Hrishi Shah, Sumit Tripathi, Leng-Feng Lee, and Venkat Krovi, "Role of Automated Symbolic Generation of Equations of Motion to Enhance Engineering Education", ASEE Computers in Education Journal Special Issue: Novel Approaches in Robotics Education, Vol 1, No.3, pp. 2-20, July-September 2010. [PDF]
Abstract of the paper: "In recent years there has been a significant increase in the variety and complexity of Articulated-Multi-Body-Systems (AMBS) used for various applications. There is also increased interest in the model-based design-refinement and controller-development, which is critically dependent upon availability of underlying plant-models.
Kinematic and dynamic plant-models for AMBSs can be formulated by systematic application of physics postulates. This process, in its various variants, forms the basis of various mechanisms/robotics courses. However, the type and complexity of the example systems is often limited by the tractability of first generating and subsequently analyzing system equations of motion. Nonetheless, it should be noted that using simpler examples alone may sometimes fail to capture important physical phenomena (e.g. gyroscopic, coriolis). Hence, we examine the use of some contemporary symbolic- and numeric-computation tools to assist with the automated symbolic equation generation, sensitivity analysis and development of model based controllers to enhance various robotics courses..."
Download the paper from:
Hrishi Shah, Sumit Tripathi, Leng-Feng Lee, and Venkat Krovi, "Role of Automated Symbolic Generation of Equations of Motion to Enhance Engineering Education", ASEE Computers in Education Journal Special Issue: Novel Approaches in Robotics Education, Vol 1, No.3, pp. 2-20, July-September 2010. [PDF]
First Workshop on Undergraduate Engineering Education with MapleSim
On August 10, 2010, our lab attended "First Workshop on Undergraduate Engineering Education with MapleSim" at McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
This workshop host by Tom Lee and Heather Zunic (from MapleSoft) aims to develop concrete ideas and directions for the revitalization of undergraduate dynamics, mechanical design, and related courses. The target result of this workshop will be to compose a community providing practical guidance to faculty at large as to the pedagogical opportunities and deployment guidelines for new technology-based initiatives in the relevant engineering education streams.
Dr. Krovi presented some of the efforts in our lab with the use of MapleSim:
Workshop Schedule and topics:
8:30 Coffee and networking
9:00 Welcome and introductions and comments from co-chairs
9:30 Session 1: Overview of current activities
9:45 Overview presentations from active institutes
10:00 Binghamton, Buffalo, McMaster, Lawrence Tech, Waterloo
10:30 Session 2: MapleSim.
10:45 Product strategy, key demonstrations, Q&A
11:15 Coffee break
11:30 Session 3: Problem statement
11:45 Brainstorming: What are the principal educational challenges?
12:00 Session 4: Working lunch
12:15 Brainstorming: Freshman courses, dynamics
13:15 Session 5:
13:30 Brainstorming: Senior undergrad control, mechatronics, capstone design
14:30 Coffee Break
14:45 Session 4: Synthesis
15:00 Pulling it all together
15:15 Summarize recommended steps for faculty and Maplesoft
16:30 Closing
ICRA Conference
The 2010 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA2010) was held in Anchorage, Alaska, May 3 - 8, 2010. The theme of the conference was ”50 Years of Robotics,” reflecting on the amazing achievements of the field and the broad impact of robotics and automation research, development and education. The conference was attended by over 1575 attendees and featured 857 papers, 8 keynotes celebrating 50 Years of Robotics, 3 plenary lectures and 42 workshops.
Dr. Krovi presented paper title "Enhanced Trajectory Tracking Control with Active Lower Bounded Stiffness Control for Cable Robot" at the conference.
You can download the paper here:
Kun Yu, L-F Lee, C.P. Tang and V. N. Krovi, "Enhanced Trajectory Tracking Control with Active Lower Bounded Stiffness Control for Cable Robot," Proceeding of 2010 International Conference Robotics and Automation, Anchorage, Alaska, May 3-8, 2010. [PDF]
Monday, March 15, 2010
Tech Savvy 2010 Robotics Workshop
On March 13, 2010, working together with AAUW Buffalo Branch, The Automation, Robotics, & Mechatronics Laboratory hosted a Robotics Workshop for "Tech Savvy 5: Tapping into our Technological Future" for girls in grades 9 - 12 in the Western New York region on March 13, 2010. Approximate 36 students (in 3 sessions) attended our workshop entitled "Haptics: The Touchy-Feely Side of Robotics" this year (download PPT slides: here).
The workshop, consisting of presentations followed by 3 hands-on demos, allowing the students to explore use of different haptics devices, expose them to the multiple applications and even program sample motions of a mobile robot (a first programming experience for many of them).
Pictures
Video highlights:
FOR MORE INFORMATION
ARMLAB Website: The Automation Mechatronics and Robotics Laboratory: ARMLAB
In the news: http://www.eng.buffalo.edu/techsavvy/2010/
The workshop, consisting of presentations followed by 3 hands-on demos, allowing the students to explore use of different haptics devices, expose them to the multiple applications and even program sample motions of a mobile robot (a first programming experience for many of them).
Pictures
Video highlights:
FOR MORE INFORMATION
ARMLAB Website: The Automation Mechatronics and Robotics Laboratory: ARMLAB
In the news: http://www.eng.buffalo.edu/techsavvy/2010/
Gifted Math Program March Symposium Highlights
As part of our ongoing outreach activities, Dr. Krovi presented "Mechanisms & Robots: Geometry in Motion" (in 2 sessions) to approximately 50 students of outstanding mathematics ability from 7-12 grades in the Western New York region, on March 10, 2010.
In this presentation (download the presentation: here), Dr. Krovi shows how mathematics knowledge can be useful to solve problems in mechanisms and robotics, and most importantly, how can one get started. The following video contains highlights of the program and presentation.
For more info about Gifted Math Program: Here
In this presentation (download the presentation: here), Dr. Krovi shows how mathematics knowledge can be useful to solve problems in mechanisms and robotics, and most importantly, how can one get started. The following video contains highlights of the program and presentation.
For more info about Gifted Math Program: Here
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