Research areas
Motor neuroscience research on human participants
- Contextual effects in motor dynamic learning
- Control of bimanual movements
- Computational models of human motor control
Speech research
- Computational modelling of infant speech acquisition
- Speech analysis using DNNs to estimate voicing parameters and pathology
- Robotic speech synthesis
Technical and robot development
- Developing inverted pendulum rigs to investigate balancing
- Investigate control using agonist-antagonistic tendon drive
- Developing state-of-the-art 2D robotic interfaces
- Developing three dimensional robotic interfaces
Explore some of the latest robotic developments
Tendon co-contraction rig
This can be used to examine strategies to control and modulate the stiffness of a single link robot arm
Inverted pendulum rig
These are more sophistically version of the inverted pendulums use for teaching and can be used to both examine control algorithms and different approaches to reinforcement learning
3DOF robotic manipulandum arm
This is a smaller 3DOF robotic manipulandum arm design using a 3D printed construction. It can also operate as a torque-controlled 3DOF robotic arm and be used to investigate robot control strategies
Worm-drive robotic arm
This is 3D printed 3DOF arm that is actuated using worm-drive motors. It can be used to investigate robot control strategies needed to generate 3D movements and perform pick-and-place tasks
Pick and place gripper end effector for robotic arm
This is a 3D printed gripper that is operated using an RC servo. It uses a dovetail attachment point and can easily be fitted to the 3DOF robot arms described above
Publications on robotic developments
People
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Dr Ian Howard
Associate Professor Computational Neuroscience
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Miss Laura Alvarez Hidalgo
PhD student