Smart Robots and Applications: From Macro to Micro Scale
The past decades have witnessed spurred development of robots for various applications ranging from industry and service. Smart robots are demanding devices to realize automated manipulation of objects in multi-scale. Flexible robot manipulators based on compliant mechanisms provide precise and dexterous manipulation in macro/micro scales.
This talk will report our recent development of smart robots for multi-scale applications. It ranges from compliant/soft robot end-effectors for industrial manufacturing, multi-legged climbing robot for high-rise building maintenance, robotic micromanipulators for biological cell micromanipulation, and micro/nano robots for precision therapy. These human-centered inventions will enable many new applications to better serve human life and enhance human health via precision medicine treatment. The challenging problems will be addressed and future work will be discussed.
Qingsong XU is a Professor with the Department of Electromechanical Engineering, Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Macau, and Director of Smart and Micro/Nano Systems Laboratory. He was a Visiting Scholar at Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich), Switzerland, National University of Singapore, Singapore, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia, and University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), USA.
His current research area involves robotics and mechatronics, control and automation, smart and micro/nano systems, precision robots and applications. He has published 4 monographs and over 350 papers in international journals and conferences, which have been cited over 10000 times in Google Scholar with H-index of 59.
He currently serves as an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Robotics (T-RO) and IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering (T-ASE). He was a Technical Editor of IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics (T-MECH) and Associate Editor of IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L).
Prof. Xu is the recipient of 10 best paper awards from international conferences. He has received multiple times of Macao Science and Technology Awards from Macao SAR, China. He has been selected into the top 2% of the world's top scientists released by Stanford University since 2019. He is a Fellow of ASME.