Speaker: Prof. Hongnian Yu (于洪年教授)

Time: 12:10-13:10, 10 November 2022 (Thursday) (Beijing time)

Tencent Meeting ID: 555-190-897

Venue:C404, Lijiao Building

Abstract

An underactuated system is a system which has fewer independent actuators than the number of generalized coordinates (degrees of freedom). Underactuated systems have many applications such as inverted pendulums, robotics, bicycles, marine vessels, capsule robots, etc. This talk will present underactuated systems from history to the state-of-the-art research on modelling, classification, control, and to some extent, and provide some unique insights for bottleneck issues and future research directions.

About Prof. Yu

Professor Hongnian Yu has successfully supervised over 20 PhD theses and over 20  Master by Research theses, has examined over 30 PhD/MPhil students’ theses as both internal and external examiner, and has trained 12 post-doctoral research fellows. He has published over 300 journal and conference research papers and has held several research grants worth about ten million pounds from the UK EPSRC, the Royal Society, and the European, AWM, as well as from industry. He has managed several international large consortiums as a coordinator. Examples are 1) coordinator (PI) of an EPSRC funded £158K international network project on Human Adaptive Mechatronics which includes 7 Japanese partners and 7 UK partners; 2) coordinator of the EU funded 3.05 million Euro Erasmus Mundus FUSION project which has 20 international partners; 3) coordinator of the EU funded one million Euro Marie Curie SMOOTH project, etc. Prof Yu has strong research collaboration with partners from over 30 countries, such as China, France, Germany, Hungary, India, Italy, Japan, Romania, Thailand, and UK. He was awarded the F.C. William Premium for his paper on adaptive and robust control of robot manipulators by the IEE Council, and has received two best conference paper awards, seven best (student) conference paper awards with his research students. He has won the Gold Medal on The World Exhibition on Inventions, Research and New Technologies, INNOVA 2009, Brussels, and International Exhibition of Inventions, Geneva, Switzerland, 2010, for invention “Method and device for driving mobile inertial robots”; and the 43rd International Exhibition of inventions, New Techniques and Products, in Geneva, 2015.  He is serving on 3 editorial boards and has served on numerous international conference organization committees, e.g. IPC co-chair of the UKACC, Cardiff, 3-5/09/2012; General Chair of the International Conference on SKIMA, China, 9-11/09/2012; 15-17/12/2016; General co-chair of the International Conference on Advanced Mechatronic Systems, China, 25-27/09/2013; Japan 10-12/08/2014; China 22-24/08/2015 etc. He is a member of the EPSRC Peer Review College, Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology, Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce, Senior Member of IEEE.