Manufacturing Robotics Challenge
Posted on 16 July 2019
As part of UK Robotics Week 2019, the RAS Manufacturing Robotics Challenge was to create a program to control a Kuka industrial robot.
The program was written in ROS - Robot Operating System, an open source system to control a wide range of robots. Ben's team, which consisted of members from a wide range of backgrounds, was the only team to successfully control the robot with voice recognised commands.
As a result the winning team was invited to receive their award of a Nvidia Jetson Nano at the RAS Robotics symposium.
The winning team members were : Cuebong Wong, Edwin L Anarcaya, Leo Xuanang Liu, Sam Harper and Narcisa C Pinzariu.
Ben's PhD research is based around building computer controlled acoustic instruments. These include drums and string based instruments that explore different possibilities of acoustic instrumentation.
