The Cobot Makers

The University of Nottingham

Driving by the seat of your pants: Robot teleoperation using smart seat sensors

Join us to see a person expertly control a mobile robot to drive around an obstacle course by just shifting around in the seat of their chair. You’ll get the chance to see how we have configured the seat sensors to control and teleoperate a mobile robot and how we adapt their sensitivity to a personalised profile of the ‘driver’. You will see the data from the seat sensors, a camera view from the robot and data from its laser scanner, as well as the driver’s heart rate. We’ll explore some of the applications of these technologies in healthcare.

Meet the Team

We are an interdisciplinary team working on foundational and applied research in intelligent cyber-physical systems and assistive robotics to support personalised health and well-being. We design and work with assistive robots and smart sensors, using AI and machine learning. Praminda Caleb-Solly is Professor of Embodied Intelligence and leads the Cyber-physical Health and Assistive Robotics Technologies research group. Her research focuses on human-robot interaction, smart sensing and machine learning. Emily Crowe is a Research Fellow in the School of Psychology. Her research focuses on sensorimotor learning and control, and how we use visual information to guide our movements. Simon Castle-Green is a Technical Manager within the School of Computer Science and Cobot Maker Space, supporting robotic-related research activities. His research focuses on safety in mobile robotics. Dominic Price is a Research Fellow in the Trustworthy and Autonomous Systems Hub and his research is focused on software engineering development for human-robot interaction.