Soft Robotic Surface Manipulator

报告人：奥克兰大学徐卫良教授
报告时间：2018年1月18日星期四 15:00
报告地点：新主楼A座306  

报告人简介：
Prof Weiliang Peter Xu (徐卫良) received the B.E. degree in manufacturing engineering and the M.E. degree in mechanical engineering from Southeast University, Nanjing, China, in 1982 and 1985, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in mechatronics and robotics from Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Beijing, China, in 1988. He joined The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand, on February 1, 2011, as Chair in Mechatronics Engineering. Before this appointment, from 2007 to 2010, he was a Professor of mechatronics, from 2005 to 2006, was an Associate Professor, and from 1999 to 2004, was a Senior Lecturer in the School of Engineering and Advanced Technology, Massey University, New Zealand. Prior to coming to New Zealand, from 1993 to 1998, he was with the City University of Hong Kong, from 1990 to 1992, was with the University of Stuttgart, Germany, and from 1988 to 1989, was with Southeast University, China.
Dr. Xu is a Fellow of the Institution of Professional Engineers of New Zealand. Since 2003, he has been serving as an Associate Editor of the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INDUSTRIAL ELECTRONICS; from 2008 to 2009, was an Associate Editor of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine; and from 2005 to 2010, was an Editor for the International Journal of Intelligent Systems Technologies and Applications. He received the Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship (Germany) in 1990, the Fung Ying Tung Young Academics Research Award (China) in 1996, the Korean Federation of Science and Technology Research Fellowship (South Korea) in 2006, and the Japan Society of the Promotion of Science Research Fellowship (Japan) in 2010.
Prof Xu is the Chair Professor and Director of Mechatronics Engineering Program. He is also Principal Investigator of the New Zealand Medical Technologies Centre of Research Excellence (CoRE) and Associate Investigator of The Dodd-Walls Centre for Photonic and Quantum Technologies (CoRE) and Riddet Institute (CoRE).  

报告简介：
There exists industrial needs where a number of objects on a surface must be manipulated simultaneously. Different from using an industrial robot, which manipulates objects in 3D space and interferes with other facilities at work, we proposed and patented a surface manipulator that is soft, made of soft elastomer and has all pneumatically operated actuators embedded beneath the surface. Our first prototype is aimed to manipulate soft, delicate, fragile objects randomly placed on the surface. It surface manipulation’s principle follows the inverted locomotion of caterpillar and the manipulation surface is made of 2D array of inverted caterpillars. This talk will cover the modular concept, actuator design, modelling and FEA simulation; capability, actuation planning, motion planning and finite state automate; vision system and closed-loop of the manipulation surface; and experimental results. This lecture is supported by a number video footages.