Basic Laboratory (AML): Motion Tracking for Soft Robotics

This laboratory explores the principles of soft robotics, emphasizing their application as innovative solutions to robotic challenges that demand flexibility, adaptability, and/or safe interaction with complex environments.

Students will dig in the design and functionality of soft pneumatic robots together with the understanding on motion tracking systems and its implementation process to gather motion information from objects.

In the experimental session, students will focus on using motion tracking technologies (OptiTrack). They will gain hands-on experience on the setup, calibration, data evaluation, and visualization processes when using these systems.

By the end of the course, students will be adept at using motion tracking to assess the performance of soft robotic systems.

• Soft robotics principles

• Motion tracking systems principles

• OptiTrack system calibration using motive software

• Matlab script familiarization

By the end of this course, you will be able to:

• Define applications and challenges of soft robotics

• Identify key properties of soft pneumatic actuators

• Understand optical tracking with multiview stereovision

• Calibrate OptiTrack systems

• Evaluate soft pneumatic actuators