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- Welcome to Kefei! Our new Post Doctoral Fellow at the Lab!
Kefei is a recent graduate from the University of Laval in Quebec City holding a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering. During his Ph.D. studies, his focus was on the theoretical aspects of robotics.He worked on the development on methodology for the design of kinematically redundant hybrid …Welcome to Kefei! Our new Post Doctoral Fellow at the Lab! Read More »
- Happy New Year, And, We Have A New Look!
Happy New Year to Everyone! We at the CRL hope that you will have a great year (or for the very least, that it will be better than the last). To celebrate the new year and start it off looking our best, we have decided … - How our graduate and post-grad researchers have been working through the pandemic.
How our graduate and post-grad researchers have been working through the pandemic. With the first school semester over and a new year to look forward to, we want to look back on the work of our graduate and post-grad researchers at the lab. This year …How our graduate and post-grad researchers have been working through the pandemic. Read More »
- Nan Liang wins runner-up at the Robotics Institute 3MT competition!
The Continuum Robotics Lab congratulates Nan Liang for his recent achievement of placing as the runner up at the U of T Robotics Institute’s 3-Minute-Thesis (3MT) competition. This competition was held on the 12th of November as part of the fall workshop for the Robotics …Nan Liang wins runner-up at the Robotics Institute 3MT competition! Read More »
- Paper on kinematic analysis of planar parallel robots published
In collaboration with the Institute of Mechatronic Systems (IMES) at the Leibniz University in Hannover, Germany, the CRL has successfully published a paper in the Journal of Mechanisms and Robotics from The American Society of Mechanical Engineers. This research began in 2018 and has been …Paper on kinematic analysis of planar parallel robots published Read More »
- Meet This Year’s ROP Students!
This year at the lab we have 3 students undergoing the Research Opportunity Program (ROP) at the Continuum Robotics Laboratory. The following are those students! Sani Sani is a 4th-year student at the University of Toronto’s Mississauga campus (UTM). She is pursuing a Computer Science … - Paper on the estimation of external forces on continuum robots published
A joint paper by the CRL and the Institute of Robotics and Process Control at the Technische Universität in Braunschweig, Germany has recently been published. This marks an important step in research that had begun 3 years ago, in 2017. This paper was published on …Paper on the estimation of external forces on continuum robots published Read More »
- Meet This Year’s Thesis Students!
For the 2020-2021 academic year, the Continuum Robotics Lab will be hosting three 4th year students as they embark on research for their undergraduate thesis. Here are our ambitious thesis students! Hanna Hanna is a 4th Year student at the St. George Campus (UTSG). She … - Robots and the Pandemic
From disinfection and remote triage, to logistics and delivery, countries around the world are making use of robots to address the unique challenges presented by the COVID-19 pandemic. But the story of robots and COVID-19 is not just about which countries are using robots to … - Paper on continuum structures in planar parallel robots accepted
Our paper on modelling, calibration, and evaluation of a tendon-driven parallel continuum robot was accepted for publication in the IEEE Robotics & Automation Letters. This is the first paper reporting on the results of our collaborative project with the Institute of Mechatronic Systems at Leibniz …Paper on continuum structures in planar parallel robots accepted Read More »
- CRL @RSS 2020
What a great virtual RSS conference! A big shout out to the RSS 2020 organizing committee and to the organizers of all workshops. Modern problems required modern solutions and you all did a great job in adapting the conference to the current situation. We missed … - CRL Summer Research
COVID-19 is affecting our research @CRL since end of March 2020. Everyone is working from home, or better, trying to work from home during a pandemic. Our labs are closed and we miss our robots as much as the social interaction with each other. CRL … - Welcome Quentin!
The past few weeks have been challenging for all of us facing measures to conquer the global COVID-19 pandemic. CRL closed its doors and everyone is working from home. Over all the hectic university closure, we grew the lab! We are thrilled that Dr. Quentin … - Happy Holidays
This has been an exciting year for CRL. The lab relocated from Hannover, Germany to Toronto, Canada. Most of us left our families and friends behind in their home countries. Robots and equipment flew across the Atlantic and a spacious, newly renovated lab space had … - CNRS-UofT Joint Research Programme
We are delighted that our collaborative project Dual-Arm Continuum Robots for Single-Port Interventions (DOORS) receives support within the 2019 CNRS-University of Toronto Joint Research Programme. This work build upon our collaboration with Dr. M. Taha Chikhaoui, Research Scientist in the Computer-Assisted Medical Interventions Team of … - CRL wins Gingerbread House Contest
Getting into the holiday spirit, CRL participated in a gingerbread building contest on 6th December. It was an amazing day as the lab got together to and brought the house down (literally). Putting our engineering skills to use, we built an inverted gingerbread house, pivoted at its corner … - 5 Years of Research on Extensible Tendon-driven Continuum Robots
We have been working on dextrous extensible tendon-driven continuum robots since 2014. After 3 prototype iterations, a patent, conference and workshop papers based on various student contributions, we are proud to see this summarizing paper being published in the International Journal of Robotics Research! With …5 Years of Research on Extensible Tendon-driven Continuum Robots Read More »
- CRL visits Toronto Aquarium
Continuum robots are largely inspired by animals. This fall’s CRL excursion took us to Ripley’s Aquarium of Canada in Toronto. CRL members analyzed the morphology of stingrays, jellyfish, seahorses, and tentacles, touched various sea creatures, and enjoyed an afternoon out of the lab. We relaxed … - Visit of our Alumni Julia Starke
We welcomed Julia Starke @CRL today, Ph.D. candidate at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany in our befriended laboratory High Performance Humanoid Technologies Lab (H2T) headed by Professor Tamim Asfour. Julia received her M.Sc. in Mechatronics in 2016 at Leibniz University Hannover. Her thesis on the … - Our academic family expanded
We are happy to announce that our academic family expanded quite a bit over the past days. Jessica flew back to Leibniz University Hannover in Germany for three PhD defenses. All three doctoral research assistants have been members of our parent laboratory and now graduated … - Paper on Joint-level Calibration Appears in RA-L
Our paper on joint-level calibration of concentric tube robots is was accepted as a letter appearing in IEEE Robotics & Automation Letters. It features a general framework for aligning the tubes of a concentric tube continuum robot independent of sensor technology. Our evaluation using magnetic, …Paper on Joint-level Calibration Appears in RA-L Read More »