
Speakers
Professor Dr. Subhas Mukhopadhyay,
IEEE Fellow
School of Engineering, Macquarie
University, Australia
Subhas holds a B.E.E. (gold
medalist), M.E.E., Ph.D. (India) and
Doctor of Engineering (Japan). He has
over 31 years of teaching, industrial
and research experience.
Currently he is working as a Professor
of Mechanical/Electronics Engineering,
Macquarie University, Australia and is
the Discipline Leader of the
Mechatronics Engineering Degree
Programme. His fields of interest
include Smart Sensors and sensing
technology, instrumentation techniques,
wireless sensors and network (WSN),
Internet of Things (IoT), Mechatronics
etc. He has supervised over 55
postgraduate students and over 150
Honours students. He has examined over
75 postgraduate theses.
He has published over 450 papers in
different international journals and
conference proceedings, written ten
books and sixty two book chapters and
edited eighteen conference proceedings.
He has also edited thirty five books
with Springer-Verlag and thirty two
journal special issues. He has organized
over 20 international conferences as
either General Chairs/co-chairs or
Technical Programme Chair. He has
delivered 415 presentations including
keynote, invited, tutorial and special
lectures.
He is a Fellow of IEEE (USA), a Fellow
of IET (UK), a Fellow of IETE (India).
He is a Topical Editor of IEEE Sensors
journal. He is also an associate editor
of IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation
and Measurements and IEEE Reviews in
Biomedical Engineering (RBME). He is a
Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE
Sensors Council from 2017 to 2023. He
chairs the IEEE Sensors Council NSW
chapter.
Prof.dr.ir. J.L. (Just) Herder,
ASME fellow
Delft University of Technology, The
Netherlands
Professor, Interactive Mechanisms and
Mechatronics
Founding member of IEEE RAS Technical
Committee on Mechanisms and Design
Just Herder is a full professor of
Interactive Mechanisms and Mechatronics,
Chair of the Mechatronic System Design
group and Head of Department of
Precision and Microsystems Engineering
at Delft University of Technology.
He has widely published in international
peer-reviewed journals and conferences
and has received several international
awards. He is an ASME fellow, board
member of several international
conferences, associate editor of
Mechanism and Machine Theory, and
co-founder of Mechanical Sciences. Seven
start-up companies have emerged from his
research and he holds over a dozen
international patents in different areas
of mechanism design. He held visiting
positions at Laval University, Canada,
and at MIT, USA, as a Fulbright Visiting
Scholar.
Research Interests
“His research interest is in mechatronic
systems with remarkable behavior and
their applications. In particular I am
interested in those mechanisms that
effect or are affected in a special way
by interaction with their environment,
called Interactive Mechanisms. A long
term goal is to establish Distributed
Mechatronics, where motion, actuation
and sensing are distributed along a
compliant structure, with a high level
of function integration, trending
towards small length scales. To reach
this goal, we focus on the development
of new technology, methods and
techniques, such as static balancing,
dynamic balancing, compliant mechanisms,
parallel kinematics, self-adaptability,
distributed actuation and sensing.
Applications fields include precision
engineering and mechatronics, robotics,
rehabilitation engineering, high-tech
industry, MEMS”.
◆ Chair, Editorial Board, Mikroniek,
ISSN: 0026-3699, 2014-present.
◆ Associate Editor, Mechanism and
Machine Theory, ISSN: 0094-114X,
2011-present.
◆ Editor-in-Chief, co-founder,
Mechanical Sciences, ISSN: 2191-9151,
eISSN: 2191-916X (ISI indexed 2014),
2010-present.
◆ Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on
Neural Systems and Rehabilitation
Engineering, ISSN: 1534-4320, 2009-2012.
◆ Associate Editor, ASME Journal of
Medical Devices, ISSN 1932-6181,
2006-2013.
For more bio information, you can visit
Prof. Herder's personal
page.
Prof. YangQuan Chen
MESA Lab of University of California,
Merced, USA
Members of IEEE, ASME, AIAA, ASPRS,
AUVSI and AMA
YangQuan Chen earned his Ph.D. from
Nanyang Technological University,
Singapore, in 1998. He had been a
faculty of Electrical Engineering at
Utah State University from 2000-12. He
joined the School of Engineering,
University of California, Merced in
summer 2012 teaching “Mechatronics”,
“Engineering Service Learning” and
“Unmanned Aerial Systems” for
undergraduates; “Fractional Order
Mechanics”, “Nonlinear Controls” and
“Advanced Controls: Optimality and
Robustness” for graduates. His research
interests include mechatronics for
sustainability, cognitive process
control, small multi-UAV based
cooperative multi-spectral “personal
remote sensing”, applied fractional
calculus in controls, modeling and
complex signal processing; distributed
measurement and control of distributed
parameter systems with mobile actuator
and sensor networks.
Dr. Chen serves as a Co-Chair for IEEE
Robotics and Automation Society
Technical Committee (TC) on Unmanned
Aerial Vehicle and Aerial Robotics
(12-18). He recently served the TC Chair
for the ASME DED Mechatronics Embedded
Systems Applications (2009-10);
Associated Editor (AE) for IEEE Trans.
on Control Systems Technology (00-16),
ISA Trans. (12-17), IFAC Control
Engineering Practice (12-17), IET
Control Theory and Applications (15-18)
and Journal of Dynamics Systems,
Measurements and Control (09-15). He now
serves as Topic Editor-in-Chief of
International Journal of Advanced
Robotic Systems (Field Robotics),
Section AE (Remote Sensors) for Sensors,
Senior Editor for International Journal
of Intelligent Robotic Systems, Topical
AE for Nonlinear Dynamics (18-) and AE
for IFAC Mechatronics, Intelligent
Service Robotics, Energy Sources (Part
A) (18-) and Fractional Calculus and
Applied Analysis. He is a member of
IEEE, ASME, AIAA, ASPRS, AUVSI and AMA.
He relies on Google citation page to
keep track of his publications at
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=RDEIRbcAAAAJ
Dr. Chen started some new
investigations, published some papers
and books, graduated some students,
hosted some visiting scholars and also
received some awards including the IFAC
World Congress Best Journal Paper Award
(Control Engineering Practice, 2011),
First Place Awards for 2009 and 2011
AUVSI SUAS competitions, and most
importantly, the “Relationship
Counselor” award from IEEE Utah State
University Student Branch for
“explaining human relationship using
control theory.” His is listed in Highly
Cited Researchers by Clarivate in 2018.
Prof. Jing Zhou
University of Agder,
Norway
Jing Zhou is a professor of mechatronics, research director of the Top Research Center in Mechatronics, and leader of the group robotics and automation at the University of Agder. She holds a Ph.D. (2006) in Technical Cybernetics at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.She has previously worked as a senior researcher at the International Research Institute of Stavanger (NORCE) and Postdoc. in the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). Her research is in modeling, simulation and control of mechanical systems with applications in automated production, robotics, offshore mechatronics, drilling and well technology, and subsea technology.
Prof. Itsuro Kajiwara,
Hokkaido
University,Japan
ITSURO KAJIWARA received the B.S. degree in engineering from Tokyo Metropolitan University, in 1986, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in engineering from Tokyo Institute of Technology, in 1988 and 1993, respectively. From 1990 to 2000, he was an Assistant Professor with the School of Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology. From 2000 to 2008, he was an Associate Professor with the Graduate school of Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology. Since 2009, he has been a Professor with the Graduate school of Engineering, Hokkaido University. His research interest includes vibration, control, structural health monitoring and laser application.
Prof. Kurt Stockman,ersity, Belgium
Prof. Kurt Stockman holds a master degree in Industrial Engineering in Electrotechnics at PIH Kortrijk in 1994 and the PhD degree from KU Leuven in 2003. He is a full professor at Ghent University, Belgium. His research focusses on the design, control and energy efficiency of electromechanical drive trains and mechatronic systems both in industrial context, automotive and renewable energy applications. A state-of-the-art laboratory is used for the validation the electromechanical drive trains research results and for characterization testing services for industry. He is author or co-author of over 130 publications in journals or conference proceedings and has a long tradition in collaboration with industry. He is a partner of Flanders Make, the strategic research centre for the manufacturing industry in Flanders, Belgium. Within Flanders Make he is active in the Motion Products cluster. He is also an active member at IEC level.
Assoc. Prof. Patrick Lanusse,
Bordeaux
Institute of Technology, France
Patrick Lanusse was born in Bordeaux, France, on January 12, 1966. Since 1990, he has been part of the CRONE team of the IMS laboratory (Bordeaux Institute of Technology, CNRS and University of Bordeaux) where he works on Robust Control, Fractional Order Controllers and more specifically on CRONE Control. He got his PhD degree in 1994 on the use of a complex order fractional operator to design robust control systems. Since 1995, he has been an associate professor of control theory and obtained his Habilitation in 2018. His research focuses on CRONE control to increase performance without decreasing robustness. He developed the CRONE control system design toolbox for Matlab which has been free to download since 2010. Through the supervision of PhD students, he has collaborated with many industrial companies. Today, he works particularly on the development of methodologies to design preview and optimal control systems. Currently, his focus is on combining robust feedback systems and model predictive algorithms. He is the author or co-author of more than 25 journal articles, 10 international patents, 100 international conference papers, he has collaborated on 15 books and has also organized several special sessions on fractional systems in international conferences.
Assoc. Prof. Jongrae Kim,
University of
leeds, UK
Dr Jongrae Kim is an Associate Professor in the School of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Leeds. Since obtaining his PhD in 2002 from Texas A&M University at College Station, TX, the USA, he has been working on dynamics and control areas covering broad applications in engineering, biology and neuroscience. He developed a mission-planning algorithm for unmanned aerial vehicles funded by DARPA, USA. Dr Kim participated in the UKube-1 and satellite systems engineering project through the Royal Academy of Engineering. He developed an optimal design procedure for the attitude controller. Successfully completed over £792k in research projects as PI or Co-I in robustness analysis, autonomous system control design and optimal uncertainty estimation, and satellite control systems. Published 85 journal and conference papers. Current research is focused on the robustness of autonomous systems and real-time uncertainty modelling & identification.
Assoc. Prof. Maciej Marcin Michalek,
Poznan University of Technology (PUT),
Poland
Maciej M. Michałek received the Ph.D. and D.Sc. (habilitation) degrees in the field of automatic control and robotics from the Poznan University of Technology (PUT), Poland, in years 2006 and 2015, respectively. He is currently an Academic Professor of PUT in the Institute of Automatic Control and Robotics, where he serves as a deputy director for scientific affairs. His current research interests concern modelling, control design, and control applications in the area of dynamical systems, nonholonomic systems, mobile robots, articulated vehicles, N-trailer structures, and intelligent/automated vehicles. He is a Senior Member of IEEE and the Chair of the Polish Chapter of IEEE Robotics & Automation Society (in cadence 2023-2023). Currently he is a member of the Conference Editorial Board for IEEE Control Systems Society, an Editorial Board Member of the Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems, and an Associate Editor for the Journal of the Franklin Institute.
Assoc. Prof. Hossein Rouhani,
University
Of Alberta, Canada
Dr. Hossein Rouhani is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Alberta and the director of the Neuromuscular Control & Biomechanical Laboratory. He received an MSc degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Tehran, Iran, and a PhD degree in Biotechnology and Bioengineering from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL). Dr. Rouhani was then a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Institute of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering at the University of Toronto. Dr. Rouhani’s fields of research are in-field health monitoring using innovative wearable technologies and rehabilitative and assistive technology development. Within his translational research program, Dr. Rouhani has had several collaborative research projects with university hospitals to implement his developed wearable technologies in clinical research at these hospitals. Dr. Rouhani was the Congress Chair of the 2023 Canadian Society of Mechanical Engineering (CSME) International Congress and is Chair of the CSME Technical Committee for Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering.
Dr. Qiang Li,
Bielefeld University, Germany
Dr. Qiang Li is a Principal Investigator
at the Center for Cognitive Interaction
Technology (CITEC) in Bielefeld
University, with research interests
covering multimodality interaction and
learning, robotic dexterous manipulation
and Collaborated Robots R&D. He is also
the President of Association of Chinese
Computer Scientists in Germany.
From 2019 to 2020, Dr Qiang Li was a
Principal Researcher and Project Leader
at Tencent Robotics X Lab. From 2012 to
2018, he was a Senior scientific
researcher at Neuroinformatik group,
Bielefeld University. From 2009 to 2012,
he was a postdoc at CorLab, Bielefeld
University. he held his PhD from
Shenyang Institute of Automation,
Chinese Academy of Sciences (2010).
He was awarded Scholarship from Honda
Research Institute, EU in 2009, and DFG
grant in 2019. Dr. Li co-authored over
40 peer-reviewed publications in the
field of robotic control, grasping and
manipulation area and 1 edited book. He
was leading many workshops in IEEE ICRA,
IROS and Humanoids and special issues in
IJHR, Frontiers in Neurorobotics,
Indutrial Robot and Complex &
Intelligent systems. Currently he serves
as Associate Editor in International
Journal of Humanoid Robotics (Robotics)
and Complex & Intelligent Systems (AI)
and Associated Editor for top level
robotics conference—ICRA, IROS,
Humanoids.
Dr. Li is leading the Association of
Chinese Computer Scientists in Germany
and developed its whole scientific
organization structure and construct the
Experts Committees of intelligent
robots, big data and AI, Industrial IoT,
autonomous driving and Brain
Neurorecognition. In 2016, he founded
the Sino-Germany Symposium on
Intelligent Robots and developed it as a
serial robotics conference
(2016,2019,2020,2021) for the
researchers and engineers in the whole
Europe. In 2018, he was awarded “10
leading Chinese Talents on Science and
Technology in Europe” by Federation of
Chinese Professional Associations in
Europe.