After recent advancement of computing and robotics technologies, intelligent robots are soon ready to serve us in our home, hospital, office and everywhere. They are mobile, autonomous and interactive, inspired from behaviour demonstration of biological systems. A number of new application areas have currently received significant interests in the robotics community, including service robots, medical robots, education robots and entertainment robots, etc. However, these robots face a number of challenges. Firstly, they have to deal with uncertainties within the systems, such as sensor noise, actuator inaccuracy, and components failure. Secondly, they have to handle huge uncertainties in the real world, which is dynamically changing over time. To catch up these changes in real time is very difficult since no sensor is able to work in all the situations and circumstances. Thirdly, inspiration from biological systems is an important issue to be addressed in the design of intelligent robots since it could provide some guidance to solve the problem. Finally, human-robot interaction is a key for success, including communicating with and navigation around humans.
 
In this talk, Professor Huosheng Hu will briefly overview the current state of art robotics technologies, and present our current research work toward the development of advanced theory and technologies for intelligent robots, based on inspiration from biological systems. More specifically, bio-mimetic system modelling, head gesture based control of a wheelchair, and human motion tracking are discussed respectively, and some preliminary results are demonstrated.

Professor Hu led the development of the Robot Fish    For refreshment planning, please  let us know if you plan to attend. Buffet afterwards