Current Projects
Bidirectional Robot Teleoperation
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Teleoperated Robot with Haptic Feedback and VR Interface
The teleoperated robotic training simulator aims to advance practice and improve proficiency in surgical operations and medical training with augmented reality and haptics feedback.
Project Lead: Aaron Zhao, Khoa Vu, Ryan Sands, Lysette Zaratoga
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Haptic Exoskeleton Glove
The wearable glove can communicate with haptic feedback wirelessly through ESP32. We are interested in using them for manipulation, teleoperation, and remote surgical training tasks.
Project Lead: Keegan Lammert, Alex Thieu, David Pena, Taderas Horn
Mechanical Design
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Modular Tactile End Effector for a Teleoperated Robotic System
Teleoperated robotic systems that have haptic-enabled technology are expanding across different industries such as surgical, industrial, and space or ocean exploration applications. This project aims to design and develop a tactile sensing slave end effector on a 6-DOF slave Denso Robot that can provide haptic feedback in wireless teleoperated robotic arm control.
Project Lead: Jenny Huynh, Lysette, Zaratoga
Bio-inspired Soft Robots
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SmartLact8 Patent
The bio-inspired breast pump integrated with soft robotics peripheral compression and a temperature control system provides a safe, efficient, and comfortable pumping process experience for breastfeeding mothers.
Project Lead: Yuying Li, Marlenne Valadez
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Smart Oral Bottle for Breastfeeding Infants
The project aims to develop a flow-speed adjustable oral feeding bottle to aid infants during breastfeeding. The device will use soft actuators integrated with an intelligent control system to adjust the spout openings to assist the infant's suckling.
Project Lead: Melissa Ng, Jonathan Lim
Past Projects
Bio-fluid Transport of Human Milk
Human milk extraction from the breast is affected by the infant's oral activities during breastfeeding. However, it is unclear how each of these oral dynamics affects milk flow patterns in the breast. An in vitro experimental protocol has been developed to investigate human milk transport patterns in bifurcated milk ducts during breastfeeding utilizing a particle image velocimetry (PIV) system.
Related Publications:
ABME 2021, Exp in Fluids 2020
Bio-inspired Breastfeeding Simulator
This bio-inspired breastfeeding simulator (BIBS) mimics the infant’s complex suckling actions, including motions of the palate, tongue, and jaw, as well as sucking and vacuum pressure applied by the infant. This novel apparatus is the first to successfully mimic the compression and vacuum pressures exerted by infants.
Related Publications:
Human Lactation Biomechanical Analysis
Biomedical image and data processing for understanding the biomechanics of breastfeeding. First known clinical experimental work utilizes thin, flexible pressure sensors to capture the positive oral pressures of mother-infant dyads during breastfeeding while simultaneously measuring vacuum and capturing ultrasound images of the infants' oral cavity movement.
Related Publications:
JBME2020 Editor's Choice, ASME-IMECE 2018