Lab located at UTS Tower building 2, level 11, room 101 (CB02.11.101) - image supplied
Project develop Associated industry partners:
Sydney Water, Tianfu, Burwell Technology, Tokyo Electric Power Company, Ausdrill (Perenti Group), Meat and Lifestock Australia
The intelligent robotics lab hosts variety of robotic research work including robots working in tandem with humans to complete a given task. As such, the robots focus on identifying and responding appropriately to their human co-worker’s intentions. In this way, the robots can keep the human in control of the operation whilst providing assistance to their human co-worker in the form of physical support, monitoring the safety of the human and updating the human about changes in the task to make the operation both mentally and physically less straining.
As the human and robot work collaboratively, both the human and robot are often in close proximity or in contact with each other as they work which emphasizes the importance of the human operator’s safety in these interactions. In response, UTS:RI has developed and incorporated a multitude of software and hardware features to ensure the safety of the human, the robot and the environment.
Examples of robotic co-workers developed by UTS:RI which can be found in this lab include the ANBOT (an assistive grit-blasting robot) and the Smart Hoist (an intelligent patient lifter) which were developed collaboratively with industry partners and have been tested extensively in the workplace.
Some other projects in the lab includes:
- Smart Hoist – which is a powered hoist with the capability of intension recognition of the user,
- Smart Wheel Chair – which can drive less mobile people safely,
- Mobility Scooter – which can drive the less mobile people in outdoors, and
- Robotic platforms such as Hip Replacement Robot,
- JeXo,
- Sawyer Robot arms,
- Fetch Robot,
- Surgical Robot