Robotics, automation, Arduino, programming, as well as capstone projects in this field.
Encouraged by some capabilities of new mobile devices, specifically the accelerometer of the iPhone/iPod Touch, I have been working recently on developing some intuitive Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) interfaces. Using the accelerometer of an iPod Touch, and as part of my job as a research associate at the centre for innovation and technology exploitation (CITE), I
Doing a PhD is very demanding and sometimes boring. So, in order to add some flavors to it I have managed to work on some other things along the line of my research. These include participating in competitions and developing demonstrations using the same hardware platform. Following are some examples of my research related activities:
Mobile Robot Used in Phase One: The mobile robot used in phase one of the research is a modified powered wheelchair base. It is equipped with an onboard low power consumption PC, a Netburner controller and two IP based Pan/Tilt/Zoom cameras. The whole system is designed to be controlled remotely through wireless networking. Therefore the
To implement a person following experiment using the mobile robot platform and its onboard pan/tilt camera an object tracking algorithm had to be developed and examined. For this purpose a color tracking algorithm was modified to suit the requirements of the person following experiment which was to be carried out at a later stage of
Course Description: This course introduces students to the fundamentals of sensing and controlling the physical world with computers. It covers aspects of embedded programming and automation systems, microcontrollers and electronic circuit boards, and robotics. It expands the students’ understandings to go beyond the common stereotype for computers. It is mainly a practical oriented course with
Course Description: The capstone module offers students the opportunity to develop their analytical and critical skills in an IT project based on a topic, selected by the student, which will be approved and supervised by a member of the teaching team. Project implementation requires the student to implement their design and make any justified modification