Locomotion Research
A multidisciplinary, hands-on approach is taken to research, combining biomechanics with engineering.
Rehabilitation
Biomechanics
Robotics
Are you an undergraduate student interested in building robots? Or maybe you would like to learn about prosthetics for your Master’s degree?
Email Dr. Smith (jasmith@ee.ryerson.ca) or drop by his office (ENG 326)
Current Projects
Locomorph: will push beyond the state of the art in robotic locomotion and movements, by increasing efficiency, robustness, and thus usability in unknown environments. As robotic research and industry are competing to increase robots’ usability towards the highly-in-demand service robotics, advancements in robotic locomotion today would give Europe a significant competitive advantage. Locomorph combines multidisciplinary approaches from biology, biomechanics, neuroscience, robotics, and embodied intelligence to investigate locomotion and movements in animals and robots, focusing on two concepts: morphology and morphosis. Through an exploration of morphology and morphosis, the consortium will develop robots with increased manoeuvrability, self-stabilization, energy efficiency, and adaptation to unknown environments. These advances will bring us closer to service robotics, as a large part of these robots must be able to locomote safely, regardless of surfaces, layouts, or terrains.
Collaborators: AI Lab, University of Zurich, Switzerland; Lauflabor, University of Jena, Germany; Biologically Inspired Robotics Group, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Switzerland; Modular Robotics Lab, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark; Laboratory for Functional Morphology, University of Antwerp, Belgium.
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