A Wearable Haptic Hand Exoskeleton for Dexterous Teleoperation and Imitation Learning

  • Project Year: 2025-26
  • Departments Represented: MEng
  • Industry/Track: Health & Wellbeing

Driven by recent advances in machine learning, decreasing hardware costs, improving sensor quality and fidelity, and the growing demand for teleoperation systems in robotic research, surgical robotics, and high-precision manufacturing, this project addresses the limitations of current commercial solutions, which are often expensive, produce low-quality data, and are kinematically mismatched to the human hand. It aims to design a low-cost, PLA 3D-printed, human-centered exoskeleton interface featuring a dry-fit assembly and accurate kinematic alignment with the human hand. The system will capture high-fidelity finger motion data to enable intuitive teleoperation and support machine learning applications.

  • Advisor(s): Jianshu Zhou
  • Team: Zhenyu Hu(ME) Tibault Dary-Alabaster(ME)Eric Chuang(ME) Adam Selker(EECS) Chenhao Wang(ME)