Robotics Engineering

Olin Hall, Room 107

Force Sensing and Haptic Feedback for Robotic Surgery

2:30 p.m.
Hubbard Hoyt, Andrew Marchese
Advisors: Greg Fischer (ME)

Design of a Spoken Language Interface for Collaboration with an Autonomous Robot

2:45 p.m.
Kevin O'Brien, Joel Sutherland
Advisor: Charles Rich (CS)

Reconfigurable Modular Mobile Robot Platform

3:00 p.m.
Matt Bienia, Dan Garcia, Karl Wajcs
Advisor: Taskin Padir (ECE)

Pneumatic Actuator Development for MRI Robots

3:15 p.m.
Mike DiBlasi, Andrew Nehring, Andrew Smith
Advisors: Greg Fischer (ME), Taskin Padir (ECE)

Design of an Active-Assistance Balancing Mechanism for a Bicycle

3:30 p.m.
Aaron Fineman, Sam Kaplan
Advisor: Taskin Padir (ECE)

A Multi-Weapon Auto Aiming and Trigger System for Rapidly Deployable Remotely Operated Armed Support Robots

3:45 p.m.
Sabrina Varanelli
Advisors: Stephen Nestinger (ME), Michael Ciaraldi (CS)
Sponsor: Black-I Robotics

Project Pele: Humanoid Robotic Programming—A Study in Artificial Intelligence

4:00 p.m.
Erik Fajardo, Wade Mitchell-Evans, Neil Nanisetty, Joseph Schlesinger
Advisor: Yiming (Kevin) Rong (ME)
Sponsor: Huazhong University of Science and Technology

Design and Realization of an Intelligent Unmanned Ground Vehicle

4:15 p.m.
Justin Barrett, Rob Fitzpatrick, Chris Gamache, Ricardo Madera, Adam Panzica, Ben Roy, Dan Sacco, Viktoras Truchanovicius, Bohua Wang
Advisors: Taskin Padir (ECE), Michael Ciaraldi (CS), Greg Fischer (ME), Bill Michalson (ECE), Stephen Nestinger (ME), Ken Stafford (ME)
Sponsors: WPI, National Instruments, NVIDIA Corporation, Genesis Strategies Inc., Philip Blackman, Optima Batteries