Author Archives: Almas Shintemirov

ALARIS team member visited Kazan Federal University, Russia

Mr. Nurdos Omarkulov, an ALARIS researcher at Nazarbayev University has visited Kazan Federal University  in Kazan, Tatarstan Republic, Russia. This trip is aimed at improving the competence of the researcher, to develop communication skills and to adapt to the modern practice of education and research.

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A Brief History of the University

Kazan Federal University – one of the oldest universities in Russia. November 5, 1804 Alexander I signed the affirmative diplomas of Kazan Imperial University and its Charter. During the life and work of the University of Kazan in it formed scientific schools that have received international recognition. Here, non-Euclidean geometry was born, the founder of a mathematician N.I. Lobachevsky played a prominent role in the development of the University, heading it for two decades. The University is the center not only for science and science education, but culture and education, it is linked to the appearance of the book business in the region, the appearance of the first provincial newspaper, the development of theatrical life and much more. In different years the university learned founder of the Soviet state V.I. Ulyanov-Lenin, writers S.T. Aksakov, L.N. Tolstoy, P.I. Melnikov Crypt, V.V. Khlebnikov, composer M.A. Balakirev, the artist V.I. Jacobi and others.

The internship schedule has had the visit to university library.

Kazan University Library is considered to be a treasure trove of books. From the value of its assets is included in the ten largest libraries in the country, including university libraries ranked third, and in ancient times, and the value of individual book and manuscript collections second only to multiple repositories. The Foundation for Scientific Library. N.I. Lobachevsky of the Kazan State University for the 200-year history, has developed a collection of five million, of which more than 150 thousand units. They are literary monuments.

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The brightest moment during internship was a visit to the robotics lab and see with your own eyes the application of the theory of mechanics in life. This is a very young laboratory of anthropomorphic robotics , which does research on human-like robots.

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Internship has contributed to birth of new ideas for further research, as well as the establishment of scientific contacts for joint research between the Nazarbayev University and the Kazan Federal University.

ALARIS team participated in 37th annual IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology conference (Milan, Italy)

Alaris team participated in annual IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology conference, held in Milan, Italy in the period August 24th -29th, 2015. The theme of the Conference remarks the central role of Biomedical Engineering in the improvement and innovation of health care (with direct impact on the quality of life) but also focuses on how to reach and maintain a “wellness” through proper and advanced technologies and protocols.

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It was remarkable event that united Society in Biomedical Engineering.

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Biomedical Engineering: a Bridge to improve the Quality of Health Care and the Quality of Life

The authors successfully presented their ideas about Upper Limb Hand Prosthesis, which was modeled in SolidWokrs and entirely built using 3D printer. The presentation received positive comments, as well as suggestions on further improvements. Furthermore, conference was important platform to meet different people in the same field of research from all over the world. Additionally, opportunities of further collaboration were discussed.
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The authors successfully presented their ideas about Upper Limb Hand Prosthesis, which was modeled in SolidWokrs and entirely built using 3D printer. The presentation received positive comments, as well as suggestions on further improvements. Furthermore, conference was important platform to meet different people in the same field of research from all over the world. Additionally, opportunities of further collaboration were discussed.

Conference took place in MiCo – Milano Congressi located in downtown Milan. It is one of the largest conference facilities in Europe and worldwide, catering for up to 18,000 people in 70 or so fully appointed conference rooms.

Team is now working on fully actuated bionic hand prosthesis, which has five fingers actuated with five motors. Subsequently, it is planned to implement myoelectric control. Read further about the hand prosthesis here.

ALARIS team member has participated in the GKmM Summer School on Cooperation of Robots and Sensor Networks for Emergency Response

ALARIS team member Ainur Begalinova has participated in the GKmM Summer School on Cooperation of Robots and Sensor Networks for Emergency Response held on September 28 – October 3 in Ebernburg, Germany. GkmM Summer School is a fourth summer school devoted to the application to emergency response scenarios. This is tackled by an array of devices tanging from inexpensive, tiny, low power sensor nodes, through high-end data gathering visual sensors and unmanned autonomous vehicles to resource rich and powerful command stations. Such a heterogeneity in communication mechanisms, processing capabilities, and inherent mobility of the different devices constitutes a so-called mixed-mode environment.

 The most excellent projects was presented to the audience during summer school to identify novel opportunities and research directions. Ainur Begalinova had presented research project on which she is currently working, it is “Design and Control of Gyro Stabilized Pan-tilt Sensor for Mobile Applications”. The novelty of the project was reviewed and estimated as promising and novel in the field. Meanwhile participants surveyed research areas in the domain of mixed-mode environments and their application for emergency response.

 Program of summer school included talks from renowned scientists from the Robotics field, tutorials on wireless sensor networks, autonomous search and rescue robots building. Among invited speakers were highly successful researchers in their field such as: Ulf Blanke, ETH Zutich, Switzerlan; Daniel Cremers, Technische Universität München, Germany; Xavier Defago, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology; Davide Scaramuzza, University of Zurich, Switzerland; Alfred Schöttl, Munich University of Applied Sciences, Germany; Matt Johnson, Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, FL, USA  and others.

 The summer school provided an excellent opportunity to get in contact with known researchers working in the field of Robotics, to meet distinguished scholars, and to establish contacts for potential research collaborations in the future. Ainur Begalinova had an opportunity to gain hands-on experience involving mobile rescue robots and wireless sensor networking.

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ALARIS team member has participated in the Second Orebro Winter School on Artificial Intelligence and Robotics

ALARIS team member Nazgul Tazhigaliyeva has participated in the Second Orebro Winter School on Artificial Intelligence and Robotics held in Orebro, Sweden, December 2014. The Orebro Winter Schools on AI and Robotics, also known as the “Lucia Schools”, are organised every year in the week of St. Lucia day – December 13th. This marks an important celebration in the Nordic Countries: the end of the period of shortening days and return of daylight. The Lucia schools aim at bringing more light in AI and Robotics fields by filling the educational gap between them, as today they are regarded as separate fields with separate communities and scientific traditions. Lucia schools also aim at creating the next generation of researchers who will realize integrated intelligent robots. These researchers should be familiar with the methods in the two fields, and should be able to work across their traditional boundaries. Next generation researchers should combine theoretical insights from both areas with practical understanding of physical robotics systems.

The school has invited professionals from Aldebaran Robotics, University of Bremen, University of Leuven, Danish Technological Institute, University of Sapienza etc., which are well known for their research in AI and Robotics area.

At the school Nazgul has gained a unique training in ROS (Robotics Operating System) programming, Linux programming, Gazebo simulators, AI planning algorithms and interfaces, has been exposed to new technologies and applied some of them through exercises on real robots. Nazgul has also extended her networks and had an opportunity to discuss her research work with top level scholars, some of which has expressed an interest in our current project – industrial manipulator based intelligent assist system for human-robot cooperative assembly tasks – and have had used the design of our 3-fingered gripper in their research.

ALARIS Lab member participates in 10th France – Japan Congress, 8th Europe – Asia Congress on Mecatronics Conference (Tokyo, Japan)

ALARIS group member Kuat Telegenov presented a paper at the 10th France – Japan Congress,  8th Europe – Asia Congress on Mecatronics Conference which was held on November 27-30, 2014 in Tokyo, Japan. MECATRONICS2014-Tokyo is the 10th anniversary of France-Japan and 8th Europe-Asia Congress on Mechatronics that brings together researchers (active) in the field of advanced mechatronics to discuss current developments of mechatronics, either in the research or in the educational field, mainly from Europe and Asia, but also from other continents.

The oral presentation was given by Kuat Telegenov in the “Robots systems” section. Title of the presented work “An Underactuated Adaptive 3D Printed Robotic Gripper“. This paper presents the preliminary work on prototype design and analysis of a 3D printed three-fingered underactuated robotic gripper with a breakaway clutch mechanism. An underactuated mechanical design, kinematics of gripper’s finger and a breakaway clutch mechanism are described in details. These elements provide passive adaptive object grasping and relatively high load carrying capacity of the gripper. The robotic gripper was prototyped using 3D printing technology and off-the-shelf components. Simulation and experimental results of grasping performance characterization of the robotic gripper are also presented.

The paper can be found on Publications page.

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Dr. Almas Shintemirov presented a paper at The 10th IEEE/ASME MESA 2014 Conference (Senigallia, Italy)

ALARIS member Dr. Almas Shintemirov presented a paper at The 10th IEEE/ASME International Conference on Mechatronic and Embedded Systems and Applications (MESA’14), Senigallia, Italy, September 2014 was held in Senigallia, Ancona, Italy from September 10th to 12th, 2014.  The objective of the conference was to bring together experts from the fields of mechatronic and embedded systems, disseminate the recent advances made in the area, discuss future research directions, and exchange application experience.

At the conference Dr. Almas Shintemirov presented the research paper titled “An Open-Source 3D Printed Underactuated Robotic Gripper” which was written by ALARIS group members Mr.Yedige Tlegenov, Mr. Kuat Telegenov and Dr. A. Shintemirov.

In addition, Dr. Shintemirov established contacts with Professor J. Angeles from McGill University, Canada, who is the very famous for his work in the field of parallel robotics and novel robotic system design and analysis. 

The paper can be found on Publications page.

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ALARIS Lab participates in IEEE/ASME AIM 2014 Conference (Besançon, France)

ALARIS group members consisting of Dr. Almas Shintemirov, and researcher Aibek Niyetkaliyev presented a paper at the 2014 IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics (AIM 2014) which was held on July 8-11, 2014 in Besançon, France. The AIM 2014 conference brought together an international community of experts to discuss the state-of-the-art, new research results, perspectives of future developments, and innovative applications relevant to mechatronics, robotics, control, automation, and related areas. Our NU members developed valuable connections for future collaborations.

The oral presentation of the paper “An Aproach for Obtaining Unique Kinematic Solutions of a Spherical Parallel Manipulator” given by Aibek Niyetkaliyev was well received by the audience of “Kinematics” session, where Dr. Shintemirov was also present as a session Chair.

The paper presents an approach for obtaining unique solutions to forward and inverse kinematics of a spherical parallel manipulator (SPM) system with revolute joints. Kinematic analysis of a general SPM with revolute joints is revisited and the proposed approach is formulated in the form of easy-to-follow algorithms that are described in detail. A graphical verification method using SPM computer-aided design (CAD) models is presented together with numerical and experimental examples that confirm the correctness of the proposed approach. It is expected that this approach can be applied to SPMs with different geometries and can be useful in designing real-time control systems of SPMs.

After the AIM conference, our ALARIS group members also visited the Institute of Intelligent Systems and Robotics at University of Pierre and Marie Curie in Paris, where one of our alumni Zhanat Kappassov is currently doing his PhD studies. During the visit our NU members developed valuable connections with Zhanat’s supervisor for future collaborations.

The paper can be found on Publications page.

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Paper acceptance to MESA2014 conference

Congratulations to ALARIS group members, their paper was submitted to MESA2014 Conference.

The 10th IEEE/ASME International Conference on Mechatronic and Embedded Systems and Applications will be held in Senigallia – Ancona – Italy from September 10th to 12th 2014.

Authors present an open source low-cost basic robotic end effector platform for facilitating research on robotic grasping. The 3D design model of a three fingered underactuated robotic gripper is presented and manufactured with minimal number of 3D printed components and an off-the shelf servomotor actuator. An underactuated finger, gear train mechanisms and an overall gripper assembly design are described in details followed by illustration and discussion of grasping of objects with various geometries. The presented open source gripper design will be released for downloading on the website in Research section and can be useful for robotic researchers as a platform to build their own robotic end effector solutions for research and educational purposes.

The demo of related work is presented in the video below.

ALARIS paper presented at 2014 IEEE/ASME AIM Conference

ALARIS group members presented a paper at the 2014 IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics (AIM 2014) which was held on July 8-11, 2014 in Besançon, France. The AIM 2014 conference brought together an international community of experts to discuss the state-of-the-art, new research results, perspectives of future developments, and innovative applications relevant to mechatronics, robotics, control, automation, and related areas.

The paper presented work on a 3D printed prototype of spherical parallel manipulator (SPM).

The demo of related work can be found in the link below.

ALARIS presented research project posters at the First NU Research Week

ALARIS members presented two ongoing research projects at the First Nazarbayev University Research Week held on Novermber 25 – 29, 2013.  The NU Research Week was praised by participants, visitors and senior management as a great success.  The ALARIS project posters demonstrated during the event can be viewed below.

Project: Design and Control of a Gyro Stabilized Pan-Tilt Sensor System for Mobile Applications

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Project: Industrial Manipulator Based Intelligent Assist System for Human-Robot Cooperative Assembly Tasks

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