Ben is a PhD candidate in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Auckland (New Zealand) and member of the New Dexterity research group. Ben holds a ME in Mechanical Engineering, a Bachelor of Engineering in Mechatronics and a Bachelor of Science in Physics from the University of Auckland (NZ). His research focuses on modelling, design and development of a bioinspired, anthropomorphic, adaptive robot arm hand system.

Awards

[November 2019] The New Dexterity \ AI Data Innovations team (Gal Gorjup, Geng Gao, Anany Dwivedi, Ben Chang, Ruobing Yu, and Minas Liarokapis) got the 1st place of the Manufacturing track of the Robotic Grasping and Manipulation Competition of IEEE\RSJ International Conference on Robotics and Intelligent Systems (IROS) 2019 (Macau, China).

Publications

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Che-Ming Chang, Lucas Gerez, Nathan Elangovan, Agisilaos Zisimatos, and Minas Liarokapis, "On Alternative Uses of Structural Compliance for the Development of Adaptive Robot Grippers and Hands," Frontiers in Neurorobotics, 2019.

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Nathan Elangovan, Anany Dwivedi, Lucas Gerez, Che-Ming Chang, Minas Liarokapis, "Employing IMU and ArUco Marker Based Tracking to Decode the Contact Forces Exerted by Adaptive Hands," IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots, Toronto, Canada, 2019.

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Che-Ming Chang, Lucas Gerez, Nathan Elangovan, Agisilaos Zisimatos, and Minas Liarokapis, "Unconventional Uses of Structural Compliance in Adaptive Hands," IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (ROMAN), New Delhi, India, 2019.