【海韵讲座第18场】

Cooperative Networked Robots: Challenges & Opportunities?

多网络机器人之间的协作：机遇？挑战？！

Professor Huosheng Hu

School of Computer Science & Electronic Engineering

University of Essex, Colchester CO4 3SQ, United Kingdom

http://dces.essex.ac.uk/staff/hhu

Abstract: Although wired or wireless networks provide a cheap and readily available communication channel for remote operation of robotic systems, there are still many problems that need to be solved before diversified real-world applications can be achieved robustly. These problems include its restricted bandwidth and arbitrarily large transmission delay, which influence the performance of the networked robotic systems. Therefore, it is necessary to remove human operators from the feedback control loop, and equip the robots with a high degree of local intelligence in order for them to autonomously handle the uncertainty in the real world and the arbitrary network delay and packet loss. An intuitive user interface is required for inexperienced people to control the robot remotely. The reliability of the system should be guaranteed so that network users can access the networked robotic system 24 hours a day with minimum human maintenance. This talk briefly overviews the key challenges and opportunities in multi-sensor based networked robotic systems towards real-world applications such as tele-rehabilitation, tele-healthcare, remote surveillance, etc. In particular the recent development of algorithms for rehabilitation and pollution at Essex is introduced, and some preliminary results are demonstrated via video.

Brief CV:

Huosheng Hu is a Professor in the School of Computer Science & Electronic Engineering at the University of Essex, leading the Human-Centred Robotics research. His research interests include behaviour-based robotics, human-robot interaction, service robots, embedded systems, data fusion, learning algorithms, mechatronics, and pervasive computing. He has published around 350 papers in journals, books and conferences in these areas, and received a number of best paper awards. Prof. Hu is a Fellow of IET and InstMC, a senior member of IEEE and ACM, a founding member of IEEE Robotics & Automation Society Technical committee on Networked Robots. He has been a Program Chair or a member of Advisory/Organising Committee for many international conferences such as IEEE IROS, ICRA, ICMA, ROBIO, and IASTED RA and CA conferences. He currently serves as Editor-in-Chief for International Journal of Automation and Computing and Executive Editor for International Journal of Mechatronics and Automation.

 时间：7月3日（周二）下午15：30

地点：海韵教学楼206