Industrial Design and Mechanical Engineering student driven by a passion for designing products that combine thoughtful aesthetics with practical function.
Drawing on mechanical intuition, manufacturing knowledge, and user-centred design principles, he seeks to create products that work as well as they look.
- +61 416 984 667
- naruncheng@gmail.com
- Melbourne, Australia
Coursework Project
Robot Arm Teleoperation
2026
- — Engineering
- — Coursework Project
- — Concept to Delivery
Robot Arm Teleoperation was my final year project for my engineering degree at Monash University. The goal was to control an industrial robot arm (KUKA LBR iiwa 7 R800) using an intuitive leader-follower control concept, offering an easier-to-learn and generalisable alternative to conventional interfaces.
The leader is a custom designed passive 7-DoF mini-arm with rotary encoders at each joint. Joint positions are read by a Raspberry Pi, scaled to account for differences in linkage length and range of motion, and streamed to the KUKA arm over OPC UA and KUKA’s Fast Robot Interface for low-latency control.
A user study was conducted to compare the mini-arm against alternative control methods on target marking and pick-and-place tasks, assessing accuracy, completion time, workload and usability.
- +61 416 984 667
- naruncheng@gmail.com
- Melbourne, Australia
Industrial Design and Mechanical Engineering student driven by a passion for designing products that combine thoughtful aesthetics with practical function. Drawing on mechanical intuition, manufacturing knowledge, and user-centred design principles, he seeks to create products that work as well as they look.