Humanoid Robot Teleoperation

Development of teleoperation of a robot humanoid nurse towards ANA Xprize Avatar challenge

• Advised by Prof. Bharadwaj Amrutur and Prof. Raghu Krishnapuram
• Research project to develop a teleoperated humanoiod robotic nurse as part of ANA Xprize Avatar challenge which aims to deploy real-time senses in remote environments.
• Research project in collaboration with ARTPARK, Tata Consultancy Services and Hanson Robotics.
• Worked on tracking human arm movements on the robot using optical trackers and VR technology, and relaying the operations.
• Developed an in-house data glove with finger tracking and haptic feedback for hand teleoperation.
• Contributed to the entire teleoperation architecture including networking and inverse kinematics & control
• Team went on to reach the semi-finals of the competition.

More information can be found at aham-avatar