UROP Project
Motion Analysis and Control of a Quadrupedal Robot
robotics, animal locomotion, AI
Research Mentor: Dr. Christian Hubicki, he/him
Department, College, Affiliation: Florida State University, FAMU-FSU College of Engineering
Contact Email: chubicki@fsu.edu
Research Assistant Supervisor (if different from mentor): Nycholas Gierhan He/him
Research Assistant Supervisor Email: nvg20@fsu.edu
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Department, College, Affiliation: Florida State University, FAMU-FSU College of Engineering
Contact Email: chubicki@fsu.edu
Research Assistant Supervisor (if different from mentor): Nycholas Gierhan He/him
Research Assistant Supervisor Email: nvg20@fsu.edu
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Looking for Research Assistants: Yes
Number of Research Assistants: 1
Relevant Majors: Computer-, Engineering, Math, and Biology-related majors
Project Location: FAMU-FSU College of Engineering
Research Assistant Transportation Required: Buses travel regularly to the college of engineering Remote or In-person: In-person
Approximate Weekly Hours: 10, Flexible schedule (Combination of business and outside of business. TBD between student and research mentor.)
Roundtable Times and Zoom Link:
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Number of Research Assistants: 1
Relevant Majors: Computer-, Engineering, Math, and Biology-related majors
Project Location: FAMU-FSU College of Engineering
Research Assistant Transportation Required: Buses travel regularly to the college of engineering Remote or In-person: In-person
Approximate Weekly Hours: 10, Flexible schedule (Combination of business and outside of business. TBD between student and research mentor.)
Roundtable Times and Zoom Link:
Not participating in the roundtable
Project Description
Many secrets are hidden in how people and animals walk. However, recent advances in artificial intelligence have uncovered useful patterns in our locomotion-- specifically patterns that can be potentially used to help categorize and diagnose movement disorders. Our laboratory has been asked by biologists to provide data for these methods, not from animals, but from robots. Research assistants will use software developed by our laboratory that creates control code for quadrupedal robots -- a robot dog. The assistant will apply this code to a computer simulation of a robot dog and provide data to the biology/robotics collaboration. Further, after sufficient training, we will implement the control code on our real robot dog to collect physical motion data for the biologists to analyze, giving us a baseline for how to use robotics as a tool for investigating and diagnosing movement disorders.Research Tasks: Running and editing computer software. Collecting computer simulation data. Training to use our quadruped robot. Data collection with the quadrupedal robot.
Skills that research assistant(s) may need: Aptitude for and/or fervor for coding. Persistent technical debugger.