报告题目：Applications & Future Trends of Robotics
报告时间：2018年4月4日上午10:00-12:00
报告地点：机械工程学院楼211室
报 告 人：于洪年 教授
报告摘要：
As the fast development of Artificial Intelligence and robotics, robots are not only applied in the manufacturing factories, but also are gradually applied in medical and service industry and search and rescue tasks in the emergency environment. This talk has two parts. The first part concentrates on the history of robotics and its classifications. In particular HAM (Human Adaptive Mechatronics) developed from one of my network projects is introduced and discussed. Then the challenges and future researches of robotics in disaster rescues (in particular fire-fighting) are revealed. The second part of the talk covers some research conducted by my team in the past few years.
Professor Hongnian Yu has held academic positions at the Universities of Sussex, Liverpool John Moor, Exeter, Bradford, Staffordshire and now Bournemouth in the UK. He has successfully supervised 20 PhD theses and 18 Master by Research theses, and has examined over 30 PhD/MPhil students’ theses as both internal and external examiner. He has trained 12 post-doctoral research fellows. He has published over 200 journal and conference research papers. He has held several research grants worth about eight million pounds from the UK EPSRC, the Royal Society, and the European, AWM, as well as from industry. He has managed several international large consortiums as a coordinator. Examples are
1) coordinator (PI) of an EPSRC funded £158K international network project on Human Adaptive Mechatronics which includes 7 Japanese partners and 7 UK partners;
2) coordinator of the EU funded 3.05 million Euro Erasmus Mundus FUSION project which has 20 international partners;
3) coordinator of the EU funded one million Euro Marie Curie project, etc.
Prof Yu has strong research collaboration with partners from over 30 countries, such as China, France, Germany, Hungary, India, Italy, Japan, Romania, Thailand, and UK. He was awarded the F.C. William Premium for his paper on adaptive and robust control of robot manipulators by the IEE Council, and has received two best conference paper awards, seven best (student) conference paper awards with his research students. He has won the Gold Medal on The World Exhibition on Inventions, Research and New Technologies, INNOVA 2009, Brussels, and International Exhibition of Inventions, Geneva, Switzerland, 2010, for invention “Method and device for driving mobile inertial robots”; and the 43rd International Exhibition of inventions, New Techniques and Products, in Geneva, 2015. He is serving on 3 editorial boards and has served on numerous international conference organization committees, e.g. IPC co-chair of the UKACC, Cardiff, 3-5/09/2012; General Chair of the International Conference on SKIMA, China, 9-11/09/2012; 15-17/12/2016; General co-chair of the International Conference on Advanced Mechatronic Systems, China, 25-27/09/2013; Japan 10-12/08/2014; China 22-24/08/2015 etc. He is a member of the EPSRC Peer Review College and the IeT Fellow.
