Keynote Speakers & Invited Speakers 专家报告
Keynote Speaker
Prof. Derong Liu (IEEE / IAPR / INNS / CAA Fellow)
University of Illinois at Chicago, USA / Guangdong University of Technology, China
Derong Liu received the Ph.D. degree in electrical
engineering from the University of Notre Dame in 1994. He was a Staff
Fellow with General Motors Research and Development Center, from 1993 to
1995. He was an Assistant Professor with the Department of Electrical
and Computer Engineering, Stevens Institute of Technology, from 1995 to
1999. He joined the University of Illinois at Chicago in 1999, and
became a Full Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and of
Computer Science in 2006. He was selected for the “100 Talents Program”
by the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2008, and now he serves as the
Associate Director of The State Key Laboratory of Management and Control
for Complex Systems at the Institute of Automation. He has published 15
books (six research monographs and nine edited volumes). He is an
elected AdCom member of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society and
he is the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks
and Learning Systems. He was the General Chair of 2014 IEEE World
Congress on Computational Intelligence and is the General Chair of 2016
World Congress on Intelligent Control and Automation. He received the
Faculty Early Career Development Award from the National Science
Foundation in 1999, the University Scholar Award from University of
Illinois from 2006 to 2009, and the Overseas Outstanding Young Scholar
Award from the National Natural Science Foundation of China in 2008. He
is a Fellow of the IEEE, the International Neural Network Society
(INNS), International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR), and
Chinese Association of Automation (CAA).
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.
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.
