[GREAT Smart Cities Friday Seminar Series] - Perception System - from Autonomous Driving to Autonomous Logistic
We deal with robotic perception, and our mission and dedication are to create intelligent systems that can autonomously operate in a complex and diverse environment, with multiple perception approaches. We are fascinated by novel robot concepts that are best adapted for acting with large-scale and dynamic environments and different terrains. We are further more keen to give them the intelligence to autonomously navigate in challenging environments. This includes novel methods and tools for human-robot interaction, perception, cognition, knowledge abstraction, mapping, learning, representation, planning, and execution. In this talk, I will introduce the recent development of the robotic perception systems from autonomous driving to delivery robots.
Prof Ming Liu graduated his Ph.D. in Robotics from ETH Zürich. He is the director of the Intelligent Autonomous Driving Center of HKUST. He received various IEEE awards, including the IEEE IROS Young Professional Award in 2018 and 15 best paper awards or finalist awards, such as the Best Paper Award in Information for IEEE International Conference on Information and Automation 2013, the Best RoboCup Paper Award for IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and System 2013, the Best Conference Paper Award for IEEE-CYBER 2015, and the Best Paper in Automation Award for IEEE-ICIA 2017, the Best Paper Awards for IEEE-ROBIO 2019 and IPIN2019. He was the Program Chair of IEEE-RCAR 2016 and the Conference General Chair of ICVS 2017 and ICVS2019. He published over 240 papers with h-index 46 and citation 7500+. His research interests include dynamic environment modeling, 3D mapping, machine learning, and visual control. He is particularly interested in the investigation of novel, real-time online approaches in solving autonomous driving, mobile robot mapping, and navigation. His team developed the first autonomous vehicle in Hong Kong in 2017. During COVID-19, his autonomous vehicles served several cities and were reported by 100+ media, including IEEE Spectrum and Xinhua.