Research, Robotics and Allied Health: Professor Jenny Womack Works on Interdisciplinary Study

The project was awarded funding from the NSF Smart Health and Wellbeing program and is based on the concept of demonstration guided motion planning (DGMP), a focus of the computational robotics workgroup in Computer Science. For this particular grant the goal is to write software that will program a child-sized robot to be taught to assist persons with disabilities in carrying out basic ADL tasks, and to refine that assistance as it responds to the motions of the
human being. The group has also submitted a second grant to the National Robotics Initiative hoping to secure funding for an adult-size robot to continue working toward ADL assistance on a larger scale.