Prof Kaspar Althoefer

Research

Robotics, Systems Engineering, Tactile Sensing, Soft Robotics, Human-Robot Interaction

Interests

Professor Althoefer's research focuses on robot autonomy, soft robotics, systems engineering, modelling of tool-environment interaction dynamics, tactile sensing and haptic perception with applications in robot-assisted minimally invasive surgery, rehabilitation, assistive technologies and human-robot interactions in the manufacturing environment.

Grants

Research Group

Research Staff

• Dr Abu Bakar Dawood
• Dr Cem Suulker

PhD Students

• Mohammed Al-Dubooni
  Soft Eversion Robotic Mechanism For The Inspection of Inaccessible Spaces in The Nuclear Sector
• Jue Chen
  Pet-Bot: Multisensory-Integrated Robot-Animal Interactions.
• Qingzheng Cong
  Soft Robot Sensing and Control Applied to Healthcare
• Chenhao Hong
  Physical Twins For Human-Robot Embodied Interactions
• Yuchuan Jia
  Metamorphic Robots For Extreme Reconfigurability
• Danyaal Kaleel
  Buoyancy Actuation Using Incompressible Fluids in Soft Robots For Deep Sea Operations
• Thomas Mack
  Sensing and Navigation For Eversion Robots Operating Pipe Networks on Nuclear Sites
• Arnab Majumder
  Exploring Machine Learning Techniques, Especially Deep Learning, to Generate Data-Driven Models For Soft Robot Arms and Hands.
• Saitarun Nadipineni
  Novel Multimodal Sensing Technologies For Remote Diagnosis, to Investigate New Human-in-Loop Communication Frameworks Between Local and Remote Sites, and Introduces Novel Multimodal Feedback Methods That Use Data-Driven/AI Approaches
• Yipeng Wang
  Haptic Sensing For Cancer Diagnosis During Mis

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