Project Staff
YU Mengying YolandaM.Eng. (Optics Engineering, Harbin University of Science and Technology), B.Eng. (Harbin University of Science and Technology)
Research Associate
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Nanyang Technological University
Robotics Research Centre
Nanyang Technological University
50 Nanyang Avenue
Blk N3, B4a-02A
Singapore 639798
Research Interests
digital image processing methods, vision measurement and pattern recognition technology, optics instrumentation design.
Projects
Medical/Surgical Robotics
INTELLIGENT HANDHELD INSTRUMENT FOR MICROSURGERY & BIOTECH MICROMANIPULATION
To enhance human positioning tasks requiring micro level accuracy (e.g. microsurgery and cell micromanipulation). The intelligent instrument will detect motion, distinguish undesired and intended motion and provide real-time active error compensation by deflecting its tip to compensate physiological tremor and other erroneous movement components. [read more ...]
Vision Guided Cell Micromanipulation
A vision-guided robotic approach is proposed to replace human intervention. A 3 degree-of-freedom piezoelectric-driven robotic manipulator is used to hold a micropipette. A high speed camera with a embedded processor captures images of the cells and the micropipette tip under a conventional microscope, processes the images, and controls the robotic manipulator in real-time to perform the intended task. [read more ...]
Publications
Refereed Journal:
- B. Liu, and M. Y. Yu, “The measuring instrument of plumb coaxial error for long distance orifices based on laser collimation,” Journal of Physics: Conference Series, vol. 48 pp. 550–554, 2006.