Welcome to Farshid Alambeigi

Dr. Farshid Alambeigi is an Assistant Professor who joined the Walker Department of Mechanical Engineering in August 2019. Dr. Alambeigi directs the Advanced Robotic Technologies for Surgery (ARTS) Lab. Dr. Alambeigi’s research focuses on developing high dexterity and situationally aware continuum manipulators, soft robots, and appropriate instruments especially designed for less/minimally invasive treatment of various medical applications.

There are some recent results in human strength amplification control for semi-active multi-contact exoskeletons, using a 8-powered-4-passive-DOF lower body exoskeleton from Apptronik Systems. The system is designed for controls testing, and supports a modest payload of 25 lbs, with off-board power. Its low level actuators run a sophisticated disturbance observer based torque compensator, to deliver near zero impedance behavior (under some minimum output inertia requirements).

Dr. Mitch Pryor spoke and participated in the International Panel at  UK's Robotics week with Stephen Hart from TRACLabs and Ron Diftler who is the branch chief for robotics at NASA JSC. 

Dr. Mitch Pryor is speaking at the Austin Central Library's Austin Forum on Technology and Society on July 9th at 6:15 pm (refreshments start at 5:45 pm). The abstract: Robots have long fascinated humans for their amazing potential, but this is also a very real industry.