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Hardware and controls research in dexterous manipulation and assistive robotics at ROAM Lab.

2025–Ongoing

DITTO

Co-designed dexterous hand and kinematically equivalent motorized exoskeleton for both handheld data collection and bilateral teleoperation with joint-level force feedback.

2024–2025

ROAM Hand 3

Robot hand with 6-axis F/T sensorized fingertips and novel kinematics validated via RL policies.

Mechanical design and kinematic validation via reinforcement learning.

2022–2023

MyHand-SCI

Creating a wearable robot to assist in grasping for individuals with Spinal Cord Injuries.

A study on tenodesis-based user control for grasping force modulation, promoting the development of intuitive assistive devices.

2023

ROAM Hand 1

Designing and building a robot hand to explore proprioception in dexterous robot manipulation.

Mechanical design and firmware implementation for torque control of a tendon-driven robot hand.