Keynote Speakers & Invited Speakers 专家报告
Keynote Speaker
Prof. Beom Hee Lee (IEEE & ICROS Fellow)
Seoul National University, South Korea
Professor Beom Hee Lee received his B.S. and M.S.
degrees in Electronics Engineering from Seoul National University,
Seoul, Korea in 1978 and 1980, respectively, and his Ph.D. degree in
Computer, Information, and Control Engineering from the University of
Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA in 1985. From 1985 to 1987, he was
with the School of Electrical Engineering at Purdue University, West
Lafayette, IN, USA, as an Assistant Professor. He joined Seoul National
University (SNU) in 1987, where he is currently a Professor at the
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Director of
the Robotics and Intelligent Systems Lab at SNU. In 2001, he was the
Program Chairman of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and
Automation (ICRA) in Seoul, Korea. Since 2004, he has been a Fellow of
the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society, and he was in charge of IEEE
Robotics and Automation Korea Chapter as the chairman until 2015. He was
the President of the Automation and Systems Research Institute (ASRI) in
SNU during 2004-2006, and the Dean of Information Technology in SNU. He
has served the Korea Robotics Society (KROS) as the president in 2009.
He was also in charge of the Board of Directors of the Korea Institute
of Patent Information (KIPI) as the chairman. He has published over 670
technical journal and conference papers mainly in the field of Robotics
and Automation. His current interest includes multi-robot systems and
applications, Multi-robot collision avoidance, Multi-robot SLAM problems
and Underwater robotics.
Speech Title--Issues in
Multi-Robot Applications
Speech Abstract--Nowadays, multi-robot operations
are acknowledged as a common practice in industry for various tasks.
State of the Art of Multi-Robot Systems are described in the first
statement. Multi-robot research issues are then discussed in terms of
the operational strategies: centralized, distributed, and mixed
operational schemes. Next, we show that one of the main issues in
multi-robot operation is the problem of collision avoidance. We also
show the importance of the collision avoidance problem in multi-robot
operations. For multi-robot collision avoidance, a special tool, called
the collision map, is introduced and applied to the problem of
multi-robot collision avoidance.
More deep analysis and investigation are presented for an application of
the collision map. Various types of collision maps are then introduced
with several possible applications. Also, robot path modification is
viewed in terms of collision avoidance using the concept of collision
map. Various applications using the collision map are presented for a
problem of 100 multi-robot operations, a stealth intruder intercept
scheme, and efficient multiple cleaning robots operation. Especially,
the load balancing in multiple cleaning robots are realized using the
collision map. Finally, future applications using multi-robot systems
are briefly discussed.
Keynote Speaker
Prof. Chun-Yi Su
Concordia University, Canada
Dr. Chun-Yi Su received his Ph.D. degrees in control
engineering from South China
University of Technology in 1990. After a seven-year stint at the
University of Victoria, he joined the Concordia University in 1998,
where he is currently a Professor of Mechanical and Industrial
Engineering and holds the Concordia Research Chair in Control. He has
also held several short-time visiting positions including a Chang Jiang
Chair Professorship by China's Ministry of Education and JSPS Invitation
Fellowship from Japan, and Qian Ren Talents Professor from China. His
research covers control theory and its applications to various
mechanical systems, with a focus on control of systems involving
hysteresis nonlinearities. He is the author or co-author of over 400
publications, which have appeared in journals, as book chapters and in
conference proceedings. In addition to his academic activities, he has
worked extensively with industrial organizations on various projects.
Dr. Su has been an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Automatic
Control, IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, Mechatronics,
Control Engineering Practice, and several other journals. He has served
as Chair/Co-Chair for numerous international conferences.
Speech Title
--Modeling
and Control of Hysteretic Nonlinear Systems
Speech Abstract
--Hysteresis
nonlinearities are very common in magnetic materials, smart materials
and industrial systems. For decades, the existence of such
nonlinearities has provided one of the most difficult challenges to
control design engineers since the entire Laplace domain and most state
space control design techniques were developed exclusively for
differentiable linear or nonlinear systems. Hence, the controllers were
designed where the existence of hysteresis nonlinearities in practical
systems were neglected. When the systems are considered with Hysteresis
(non-differentiable) nonlinearities, these methods encountered
substantial difficulties in the analysis, model fitting and control
design stages. It was extremely difficult, if not impossible, to design
or prove stability of such systems. The development of techniques for
the identification of such nonlinearities in realistic industrial plants
has emerged as a significant problem in itself.
This talk is intended to raise awareness of modeling and control
techniques and to provide an opportunity to discuss state-of-the-art
solutions for the problems. The presentation and discussion will range
from modeling of hysteresis, to the design of corresponding control
schemes, especially in the absence of complete information concerning
the system model and state. The talk is designed to appeal to an
audience from different backgrounds. People working in the area of
control will have a chance to interchange ideas and to view problems
from different perspectives. People working in other areas will also
benefit by understanding the new methods and technologies developed for
control’s point of view.
Invited Speaker
Prof. Toyomi Fujita,
Tohoku Institute of Technology, Japan
Toyomi Fujita have
received his Ph.D. in Robotics from the Tohoku University, Japan, in
1997. From 1997 to 2001 he has been a Research Associate at the Graduate
School of Information Systems, the University of Electro-Communications,
Tokyo, Japan. He joined, in 2001, the Neurology and Telerobotics Units,
in the School of Optometry at the University of California, Berkeley,
USA. He has been with the Department of Electronics and Intelligent
Systems, Tohoku Institute of Technology, Japan. He is currently a
Professor of the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering,
Tohoku Institute of Technology. His research interests include robotics,
robot vision, and human interface.
Speech Title--Autonomous
Gripping and Carrying of Polyhedral Shaped Object Based on Plane
Detection for a Tracked Mobile Robot with Multiple Manipulation Arms
Speech Abstract--Recently,
it is highly expected that robots work in a dangerous site such as
disaster area instead of human. Working ability are required for such
robots as well as moving ability. For these abilities, the robot that
has both tracked mobile unit and multiple working arm units would be
effective. Our research group has developed tracked mobile robots with
multiple manipulation arms based on this consideration. This type of
robot can perform a variety of tasks with object handling such as
transportation.
To reduce burden of remote control on an operator for such
transportation tasks, a method for autonomous gripping and carrying of a
polyhedron shaped object has been considered based on plane detection.
In this method, the robot can calculate its gripping position of the
target object and the joint angles of working arms when gripping by
detecting the planar part of the object. The robot can also calculate
appropriate observation positions for the detection.
This talk will introduce the method and its application to a quadruped
tracked robot. Some experimental results for an autonomous gripping and
carrying will demonstrate the validity of presented method and high
working ability of this type of robot.
The accepted and registered ones will be published in the
conference proceedings to be published with
International Conference Proceedings Series by ACM (ISBN:
978-1-4503-7183-4), which are to be indexed by
Ei Compendex,
Scopus, IET etc. major
databases.
