About Me
I am a PhD candidate in the Centre for Robotics Research at King’s College London under the supervision of Dr Matthew Howard and Dr Daniele Magazzeni. My interests span topics in soft/compliant robotics, variable impedance actuators (VIA), optimal control, and reinforcement learning.
Publications
Fan Wu and Matthew Howard, A Hybrid Dynamic-regenerative Damping Scheme for Energy Regeneration in Variable Impedance Actuators. International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2018.
Samuel Pitou, Fan Wu, Ali Shafti, Brendan Michael, Riaan Stopforth, Matthew Howard, Embroidered Electrodes for Control of Affordable Myographic Prostheses. International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2018.
Teaching Assistant
17/18 Term 1: 5CCS2ITR Introduction to Robotics (large group tutorial) and 6CCS3HCI Human-Comupter Interaction.
17/18 Term 2: 6CCS3ROS Robotic Systems, 7CCSMCFC Computer Forensics & Cybercrime.
Research Assistant
Low-cost prosthetics for developing world
This project consists in exploring the feasibility of integrating a low-cost sensing system based on textile technology to 3D-printed prosthetics to propose a limb replacement solution for amputees in the developing world. In the project, textile electrodes developed at King’s are used with an electromyography (EMG) signal acquisition system associated with the Touch Hand (an affordable robotic prosthesis) developed at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. The project aims at providing a solution suitable for the developing world market with a modular design.
REBoot
The REBoot project emphasises the needs of a rare disease group who live with Epidermolysis Bullosa (EB) and require life-long health care resources. EB is a group of genetic skin conditions which cause the skin to blister and tear at the slightest touch. The patients with EB suffer from skin blistering, webbing between toes, dystrophic nails, and ultimately gait imbalances. All of these are accompanied by significant pain.
The aim of this project is to help the EB patients preventing or delaying disease-related deformities and disabilities with medical devices and orthotics. It is a project spanning multiple Faculties at King’s, including Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery, Dental Institute, Department of Informatics, and in collaboration with clinical consultants, footwear designers and engineers from NHS Foundation Trust, OurOwnsKIN Ltd and Walk With Path, and also the patients.
The Robot learning lab is involved in this project to support the research and development of IT applications, sensing technologies and dynamic gait analysis tools to boost the medical devices design aiming at assisting patients with long-term and progressive conditions to avoid loss of function, and correct gaits through tailored footwears. In particular, we are interested in the sensing technologies which are robust, durable and suitable for footwear force mapping and real time data acquisition.
Activities
King’s GO (Weiqi) Club
I founded King’s Go Club, which is a student group for the game of Go(Weiqi). If you are interest in our group please follow the Facebook page www.facebook.com/kingsgoclub/ and/or join our wechat group if you use wechat.