Mecharithm - Robotics and Mechatronics

We wrapped up the Modern Robotics I class at Saint Louis University with the last project of the semester, where students used numerical screw-theory-based inverse kinematics with camera feedback and ROS2 to control a robot arm to pick and place different clusters with different colors. The implementation I attach here is Michael and Joshua's work. They deserve extra credit for their sense of humor and their video-making skills. Bloopers are also at the end. Also, shout out to Guangping and Jake for writing code to do camera topic remappings to fix the bugs in the perception package, which saved me a ton of time to do it myself. Also for those students who want to repeat the project for their own learning, here is your guide: https://lnkd.in/g6rg2z_p #screwtheory #numericalinversekinematics #ros2 #visionbasedcontrol #SLU #saintlouisuniversity

When robotics meets art 1 (note the tempo of dance is designed to the tempo of the music). Jake and Guangping's implementation of Project 1 of the modern robotics course: https://lnkd.in/gqA-p7_E #velocities #twists #jacobianmatrix #jacobian #screwtheoryinrobotics #slu

Research paper ("Improving Robotic Arms through Natural Language Processing, Computer Vision, and Edge Computing") accepted as an oral presentation at the International Conference on Mechatronics, Control and Robotics (ICMCR). This research is carried out by three undergraduate students, Pascal Sikorski, Kaleb Yu, and Lucy Billadeau led by me, Flavio, and Hadi. Thanks to a seed grant from Saint Louis University School of Science and Engineering's FIRE program, Pascal will be presenting this work in person. #NLPinrobotics #undergraduateresearch

Pascal Sikorski (undergraduate researcher and project lead), along with several other undergraduate researchers at my lab (names are in the video below), recently had their paper accepted for oral presentation at the 2025 3rd International Conference on Mechatronics, Control, and Robotics (ICMCR 2025), which will be held at NUS in Feb. Thanks to generous funding from Saint Louis University's FIRE program for undergraduate research, Pascal will be attending this conference in person to present the work. See the video of the work at the link below: https://lnkd.in/gWVfqG4T Other faculty advisors in the project: Flavio Esposito and Hadi Ali Akbarpour. I am so proud of the quality of the research that these hard-working undergraduate researchers have produced. #mobilerobots #humanrobotinteraction

New lesson in ML in robotics series is just published. The title of this lesson is "CNNs Case Study on a Robotic Assistive Device". In this tutorial, we will apply CNN on a gait mode recognition problem for a robotic assistive device and see for ourselves how powerful CNNs can get. This lesson is the conclusion to ML in robotics course series. The code for this lesson is shared at the link below: https://lnkd.in/g99bE2Gz https://lnkd.in/gCe4-V2f #cnn #convolutionalneuralnetworks #convolutionalneuralnetwork #deeplearning #machinelearning #gaitmoderecognition #assistiverobot