Articulated wheel-leg robot
Highly-articulated wheeled mobile robots can use their additional degrees of freedom (DOFs) to help rovers advance in traction-limited scenarios. Push-pull locomotion is an example of this, in which a subset of wheels remains locked and planted while another subset is advanced over the terrain. We are in the final stage of developing a rover with wheels mounted at the end of multi-DOF legs, providing a broad range of novel locomotion to achieve extreme terrain traversability.
Concordia University's Aerospace Robotics Lab
Research interests include: Space robotics, Planetary rovers, Robot mobility, Vehicle-terrain interactions, Advanced 3D printing techniques, Robotics excavation & construction, Reduced gravity experimentation, Computer vision and machine learning for robotics applications.