Keynote Speakers
Prof. Dan Zhang
York University,
Canada
（加拿大约克大学）
Biography:
Dr. Dan Zhang is a
Kaneff Professor in
Advanced Robotics
and Mechatronics, as
well as the Chair of
the Department of
Mechanical
Engineering at York
University. Before
2016, Dr. Zhang was
a Professor and
Canada Research
Chair in Advanced
Robotics and
Automation, and was
a founding Chair of
the Department of
Automotive,
Mechanical, and
Manufacturing
Engineering at the
University of
Ontario Institute of
Technology. He
received his Ph.D.
in Mechanical
Engineering from
Laval University,
Canada, in June
2000.
Dr. Zhang's research
interests include
robotics and
mechatronics; high
performance parallel
robotic machine
development;
sustainable/green
manufacturing
systems;
rehabilitation robot
and rescue robot.
Dr. Zhang’s
contributions to and
leadership within
the field of robotic
and automation have
been recognized with
several prestigious
awards, within his
own university
(Research Excellence
Award both from
university level and
faculty level) and
Kaneff
Professorship, the
Province of Ontario
(Early Researcher
Award), the
professional
societies (Fellow of
the ASME, the CAE,
the EIC and the
CSME), and federal
funding agencies
(Canada Research
Chair in January
2009 and renewed in
January 2014). Dr.
Zhang is the
editor-in-chief for
International
Journal of
Mechanisms and
Robotic Systems, the
editor-in-chief for
International
Journal of Robotics
Applications and
Technologies. Dr.
Zhang served as a
member of Natural
Sciences and
Engineering Research
Council of Canada
(NSERC) Grant
Selection Committee.
Dr. Zhang is a
Fellow of the
Canadian Academy of
Engineering (CAE), a
Fellow of the
Engineering
Institute of Canada
(EIC), a Fellow of
American Society of
Mechanical Engineers
(ASME), and a Fellow
of Canadian Society
for Mechanical
Engineering (CSME),
a Senior Member
IEEE, and a Senior
Member of SME.
Prof. Makoto Iwasaki
Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan
Biography: Makoto Iwasaki received the B.S., M.S., and Dr. Eng. degrees in electrical and computer engineering from Nagoya Institute of Technology, Nagoya, Japan, in 1986, 1988, and 1991, respectively. Since 1991, he has been with the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Nagoya Institute of Technology, where he is currently a Professor at the Department of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering. As professional contributions of the IEEE, he has been an AdCom member of IES in term of 2010 to 2019, a Technical Editor for IEEE/ASME TMech from 2010 to 2014, an Associate Editor for IEEE TIE since 2014, a Management Committee member of IEEE/ASME TMech (Secretary in 2016 and Treasurer in 2017), and a Co-Editors-in-Chief for IEEE TIE since 2016, respectively. He is IEEE fellow class 2015 for "contributions to fast and precise positioning in motion controller design". He has received the Best Paper Award of Trans of IEE Japan in 2013, the Best Paper Award of Fanuc FA Robot Foundation in 2011, the Technical Development Award of IEE Japan in 2017, and The 3rd Nagamori Awards in 2017, respectively. His current research interests are the applications of control theories to linear/nonlinear modeling and precision positioning, through various collaborative research activities with industries.
Title of Speech: Fast and Precision Motion Control for Industrial Positioning Devices
Abstract: Fast-response and high-precision motion control is one of indispensable techniques in a wide variety of high performance mechatronic systems including micro and/or nano scale motion, such as data storage devices, machine tools, manufacturing tools for electronics components, and industrial robots, from the standpoints of high productivity, high quality of products, and total cost reduction. In those applications, the required specifications in the motion performance, e.g. response/settling time, trajectory/settling accuracy, etc., should be sufficiently achieved. In addition, the robustness against disturbances and/or uncertainties, the mechanical vibration suppression, and the adaptation capability against variations in mechanisms should be essential properties to be provided in the performance.
The keynote speech presents the fast and precision motion control techniques, where a 2-degrees-of-freedom (2-DoF) control framework is especially handled as one of practical and/or promising approaches to improve the motion performance. Actual issues and relevant solutions for each component in the 2-DoF control structure are clarified, and then, one of examples, a 2-DoF controller design for robust vibration suppression positioning, is presented as an application to industrial high precision positioning devices.
Prof. WEIDONG Chen (陈卫东 教授)
Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
（上海交通大学）
Biography: Weidong Chen received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Control Engineering in 1990 and 1993, and Ph.D. degree in Mechatronics in 1996, respectively, all from the Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China. Since 1996, he has been at the Shanghai Jiao Tong University where he is currently Chair and Professor of the Department of Automation, and Director of the Institute of Robotics and Intelligent Processing. He is the founder of the Autonomous Robot Laboratory. From August 2003 to February 2004, he was a visiting associate professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The Ohio State University. In July and August 2012, he was a visiting professor in the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at the University of Zurich in Switzerland. He is a visiting professor in the Brain Science Life Support Research Center at the University of Electro-Communications in Japan from 2016 to 2018.
Dr. Chen’s current research interests include autonomous robotics, collective robotics, assistive robotics, and medical robotics. His research has been supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), National High-tech R&D Program (863 Program), Ministry of Education (MOE), etc. Dr. Chen has served on numerous program and organizing committees of international conferences. Most recently, he was an Organizing co-Chairs of the 2015 International Symposium on InfoComm & Media Technology in Bio-Medical & Healthcare Application (2015 IS-3T-in-3A), Chiba, Japan, November 15-18, 2015, and is serving as the General Chair of the 14th International Conference on Intelligent Autonomous Systems (IAS-14), Shanghai, China, July 3-7, 2016.
Personal website: http://robotics.sjtu.edu.cn/
Prof. Juntao Fei (费俊涛教授)
Hohai University, China (中国河海大学)
Biography: Professor Juntao Fei received his B.S. degree from the Hefei University of Technology in 1991, M.S. degree from University of Science and Technology of China in 1998, M.S and Ph.D. degree from the University of Akron, USA in 2003 and 2007 respectively. He was a visiting scholar at University of Virginia, USA from 2002 to 2003, North Carolina State University, USA from 2003 to 2004 respectively. He served as an assistant professor at the University of Louisiana, USA from 2007 to 2009. Since May 2009, He has been a Professor at the College of IoT Engineering, Hohai University , Director of Institute of Electrical and Control Engineering. His research interests include adaptive control, intelligent control, sliding mode control, power electronics and control, mechatronics and robotics, smart material and structure. He is a Senior Member of IEEE. He has served as an associate editor for Transactions of the Institute of Measurement and Control, reviewers for numerous international journals, program committee members and chairs for numerous international conferences. He has published more than 200 journal and conference papers and 5 books and led more than 20 funded research projects to completion as Principal Investigator. He authorized 40 invention patents. He is an awardee of the Recruitment Program of Global Experts (China). His biography has been included in Who’s Who in the World, Who’s Who in Science and Engineering, Who’s Who in America.
Title of Speech: Adaptive Sliding Mode Control Using Double Loop Recurrent Neural Network for Dynamic Systems
Abstract: In this study, an adaptive sliding mode control system using a double loop recurrent neural network (DLRNN) structure is proposed for a class of nonlinear dynamic systems. A new three-layer recurrent neural network(RNN) is proposed to approximate unknown dynamics with two different kinds of feedback loops where the firing weights and output signal calculated in the last step are stored and used as the feedback signals in each feedback loop. Since the new structure has combined the advantages of internal feedback neural network(NN) and external feedback neural network, the new structure can acquire the internal state information while the output signal is also captured, thus the new designed DLRNN can achieve better approximation performance compared with the regular neural networks without feedback loops or the regular recurrent neural networks with a single feedback loop. The new proposed DLRNN structure is employed in the equivalent controller to approximate the unknown nonlinear system dynamics, and the parameters of the DLRNN are online updated by adaptive laws to get favorable approximation performance. To investigate the effectiveness of the adaptive neural sliding controller with DLRNN. Simulation results demonstrate that the proposed control system can achieve good tracking performance and the comparisons of approximation performance between Radial Basis Function(RBF) NN, RNN and DLRNN show that the DLRNN can accurately estimate the unknown dynamics with fast speed while the internal states of DLRNN are more stable.
Prof. Ghassan Beydoun
University of Technology Sydney, Australia
Biography: Professor Ghassan Beydoun is currently based at the Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology in University of Technology Sydney, where he is also deputy Head of School (Research) Systems, Management and Leadership at the University of Technology Sydney. He is also an adjunct senior research fellow at the School of Information Systems, Management and Technology at the University of New South Wales, an associate editor of the International Journal of Intelligent Information Technologies (IJIIT) and an Editorial member of the Journal of Software. He received a degree in computer science and a PhD degree in knowledge systems from the University of New South Wales in 2000. His research interests include multi agent systems applications, ontologies and their applications, and knowledge acquisition. He is currently working on a project sponsored by an Australian Research Council Discovery Grant to investigate the best uses of ontologies in developing methodologies for complex systems and another project with SES on exploring the use of ontologies for flood management decision support. He has authored more than 100 journal and conference papers in these areas over the past 15 years. His most recent publication appeared in IEEE Transactions of Software Engineering, Information Systems journal, Information and Management, International Journal of Human Computer Studies, Information Processing and management and others.
Title of Speech: Agent Based Models as a Disaster Management Decision Tool
Abstract: Over the past nine years, we have undertaken research to simplify decision making processes for Disaster Management processes. In this talk, I will describe our approach which faciltates context identification and complexity management of Disaster Management scenarios. An agent based modelling process in combination a metamodelling is used to support decision makers to develop a variety of domain solutions models based on mixing and matching solutions from prior experiences. In developed countries, for recurring disasters (e.g. floods), there are dedicated document repositories of Disaster Management Plans (DMP) that can be accessed as needs arise. I will describe an agent-based knowledge analysis method to convert DMPs into a collection of knowledge units that can be stored into a unified repository based. We use the flood management plans used by New South Wales State Emergency Services in Australia to illustrate the approach. I will also conclude by examining the challenges on the horizon of integrating real time constraints in the DSS output.