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Nicholas Gialias
PhD Student, RI/Bio Med

No longer a member of RI.

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Research interests

My research is focused on developing control strategies based on neurological control structure and implementing them in engineered systems. Presently, our group is designing and constructing an Anatomically Accurate Testbed (ACT) of the hand with similar kinematic and dynamic properties of the human hand. The goal is to use this device as a testbed for further studies in dexterous end effectors, human motor coordination, control structure and biomechanics. This research is being conducted in the Neurobotics Lab at Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute under the advisement of Dr. Yoky Matsuoka.

Research interest keywords

control, humanoid robotics, medical robotics, and motion planning

Past Labs & Groups

Neurobotics Laboratory - Investigating neural control of movement, brain-machine interface, and devices for rehabilitation, motor enhancement, and entertainment.

Past Projects

Anatomically Correct Testbed (ACT) Hand - We are building a dynamic model of the human hand that is anatomically correct.

Publications

Note: This list may not be comprehensive. It contains only those publications in the RI publications database. Entries are listed in reverse chronological order.

• Muscle Actuator Design for the ACT Hand
  N. Gialias and Y. Matsuoka
  Proceedings of the 2004 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA '04), May, 2004. [Abstract]
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