Prof Kaspar Althoefer
PhD
Research Group Members
Research Assistants
 SADATI, Seyedmohammadhadi |  DAWOOD, Abu Bakar | KOMNINOS, Charalampos |
Current PhD Projects
| Thesis Title |
|---|
| A Soft Hand Exoskeleton for Haptic Feedback |
| ARQ |
| From Bees to Robots: A Statistical Mechanics Framework for Modelling Shimmering Dynamics and Control of Swarm Systems |
| Inflatable legs for walking robots |
| Inflatable legs for walking robots |
| Modeling and control of a robotic retractor for minimally invasive colorectal surgery |
| Sensing and navigation for eversion robots operating pipe networks on nuclear sites |
| Soft eversion robotic mechanism for the inspection of inaccessible spaces in the nuclear sector |
| Using control and machine learning techniques to optimise the motion performance of a soft eversion robots for underwater applications |
Past PhD Projects
| Thesis Title | Year |
|---|---|
| Pneumatic Soft-Rigid Hybrid Actuators and Evolved Legged-Robots: Design, Modelling and Control | 2024 |
| Robust non-causal model predictive control applications in marine engineering | 2024 |
| Design, fabrication and stiffness control of soft fluidic robots | 2023 |
| Fabric-based eversion type soft actuators for robotic grasping applications | 2023 |
| Modelling and Control of a Robotic Active Capsule Endoscope | 2023 |
| Multimode optical waveguide shape sensing based on specklegram classification | 2023 |
| Soft Capacitive and Optical Tomography-based Sensor Skins | 2023 |
| Soft Optical-Based Sensors Fabrication and Evaluation for Curvature and Shape Estimation of Soft Actuators | 2023 |
| Deep learning for information transmission through a multimode fibre | 2022 |
| Particle based reconfigurable robot for deployment in inaccessible spaces | 2022 |
| Virtual Reality Training Simulator for Physical Diagnosis | 2022 |
| Creases modelling in meshless methods | 2021 |
| Integrated Hydraulic Steering And Signal Transmission Technlologies Applied to Novel MRI-Compatible Intravascular Catheters | 2020 |