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Remember that at least one of the supervisors have to be an employee of the University of Tartu. The supervisor can be a person with at least a Master´s degree or an education equivalent to it.
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Thesis topics in 2020/2021 academic year:
Egils Avots
(egils.avots2 [ät] gmail.com)
Kadir Aktas
(kadiraktass [ät] outlook.com)
The locomotion and object manipulation mechanisms in nature are much different from those commonly used in robots. Put in another way, the toolbox available for the today’s roboticists is limited to a rather narrow range of achievable actuation modes (typically combinations of rotary and linear actuations), resulting in the today’s robots being effectively only in modes that are easily achievable by the available techniques. In contrast, soft robotics offers a practically infinite range of achievable actuation modes, enabling mimicking most locomotion modes known from the nature.
More information here.
Karl Kruusamäe (karl.kruusamae [ät] ut.ee)
Arun Kumar Singh (arun.singh [ät] ut.ee)
*teach mode - robot can replicate user demonstrated trajectories *end-effector jogging *gripper control *gamepad integration - user can control the robot via gamepad *web integration - user can control the robot via internet browser
The thesis is suitable for both, master and bachelor levels, as the associated code can be scaled up to generic "user-friendly control" package.