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Prime Minister of Kazakhstan Serik Akhmetov visited ARMS Laboratory

October 27, 2012: Prime Minister of Kazakhstan Serik Akhmetov visited ARMS Laboratory. Investigators and researchers introduced the research projects currently run in ARMS and demonstrated their latest achievements.

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ARMS Lab researcher leaves for PhD studies at the Pierre and Marie Curie University

ARMS lab members congratulate Zhanat Kappassov who departed this month to pursue his PhD degree at the prestigious Pierre and Marie Curie University (Paris, France). A graduate of Tomsk State University of Control Systems and Radioelectronics, Zhanat joined ARMS Lab early 2011 as one of the first researchers. ARMS Lab members wish Zhanat all the […]

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ARMS Lab welcomes new team member!

ARMS Laboratory is happy to introduce you its new member, Ilyas Tursynbek! Mr. Tursynbek obtained his BEE degree at University of Minnesota, and his research interests include control systems, mechanical systems and mathematics. ARMS Lab members welcome new researcher and wish all the best in his research!

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Dr. Atakan Varol receives IEEE TBME Outstanding Paper Award

ARMS Lab is proud to announce that along with his co-authors, Dr. Michael Goldfarb and Kevin Ha, Dr. Atakan Varol was selected to receive the prestigious IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society 2013 Outstanding Paper Award. The paper, entitled “Volitional Control of a Prosthetic Knee Using Surface Electromyography” was published in the IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering in 2011. The […]

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ARMS Lab Launches Matlab Toolset for the RRT*FN Algorithm

Sampling based motion planning algorithm, Rapidly Exploring Random Trees, has been a hot research topic in the last decade. Recently researchers introduced a probabilistically optimal version of the RRT algorithm called RRT*. ARMS Lab researchers, Olzhas Adiyatov and Atakan Varol, developed a memory efficient variant of RRT* motion planning algorithm. To allow the usage and benchmarking of […]

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ARMS Lab participates in IEEE ICMA 2013 Conference (Takamatsu, Japan)

Undergraduate researcher Olzhas Adiyatov, research assistants Zhanat Kappassov and Artur Saudabayev and the principal investigator of ARMS Lab Dr. Atakan Varol attended the IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics and Automation (ICMA) 2013. The conference took place in the lovely port city Takamatsu of the Kagawa Prefecture in Japan between 4th and 7th of August. Three […]

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10 Students Finished Their Summer Internships at ARMS Lab

2013 summer internship has ended at Advanced Robotics and Mechatronics (ARMS) Laboratory. During June and July, 10 first and second year students (Farabi Kungozhin, Almaskhan Baimyshev, Nursultan Imanberdiyev, Bauyrzhan Aubakir, Damir Nurseitov, Angelina Gerbolt, Denis Fadeyev, Tasbolat Taunyazov, Olzhas Adiyatov and Andrey Sakryukin) were actively involved to the development of projects being carried out at […]

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Military Officers attend ARMS laboratory

Number of officers of Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Kazaksthan attended ARMS Laboratory on Saturday, February 9. Officers were introduced to the research projects being carried out at the lab, and had an opportunity to see the latest developments on major works. Current iteration of a Robotic Arm (part of “Enhanced Object Manipulation Using […]

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Two more grants awarded to ARMS Laboratory

We are delighted to announce that ARMS Laboratory was recently awarded two research grants by the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan. Both of the applications were considered within the “Information and Telecommunication Technologies” priority, “Intelligent Robotic Systems” sub-priority of grant financing. Research topics: – “Generation of Dynamic Trajectories for Redundant Robot-Manipulator […]

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Nazarbayev Intellectual School Students Visit ARMS

October 12, 2012. Nazarbayev Intellectual School students visited Robotics and Mechatronics Laboratory in Nazarbayev University. They were introduced educational program in Robotics and Mechatronics faculty. Then they had a tour in Laboratory, where faculty members and undergraduate students presented current projects. Professor Almas Shintemirov introducing Robotics and Mechatronics Laboratory Olzhas explaining RRT to audience Farabi talking to […]