On September 24 afternoon, the member of Chinese Academy of Sciences,Dean of the School of Mechanical Science and Engineering, HuazhongUniversity of Science and Technology, Dean of State Key Laboratory of digital Manufacturing and Equipment Technology, Prof. Ding Han visited the West Lake Machinery Forum of Zhejiang University and made a report named “Robotics and Intelligent ManufacturingTechnology - Basic Theory and Key Technologies of CommunicatingRobots”. The session was hosted by Prof. Yang Huayong from the school of Mechanical Engineering of Zhejiang University.
Prof.Ding pointed out that robots are playing an increasingly important role in solving the problems of manufacturing upgrading, social aging, health services, and resource development, and have risen to a national strategy which in turn promotes robotics. With continuous improvement and continuous improvement, robots will have the characteristics of rigid-flexible coupling or variable mechanism, high environmental adaptability, active sensing and autonomous control, natural human-computer interaction, and multi-robot coordination.
He also believes that it is foreseeable that the next generation of robot development will be the development of communicative robots, including the integration between robots and people, between robots and the environment, and between robots and robots. The commonality of the communicator in the three aspects of structure, control, and perception determines the research direction of future communicative robots, including multi-field coupling mechanism and integrated design of rigid-flexible-soft robots, robot's autonomous behavior, group intelligence, and operating system, automatic sensing and natural interaction of multi-sensor fusion. However, this also brings new challenges to the robotics discipline, including the rigid coupling design of robots, large deformation behavior, kinematics analysis and dynamics calculation, unstructured environment, high maneuvering autonomous control and group cooperation/gaming method,polymorphic distribution architecture and resource/behavior management, behavioral intent perception and understanding of multimodal information fusion.
Nowadays, robotics integrates mechanics, materials, mechanics, biology, information and many other disciplines. It is the research hotspot and frontier of multidisciplinary integration. Prof. Ding hopes to create robots with Chinese labels through the development of common basic theoretical research and characteristic application research, including robots capable of craftsmanship, flexible mobile special robots and smart and thoughtful rehabilitation robots in the international robotics community.
Ding also said that in the past ten years, the number of papers by Chinese scholars in the international authoritative journals of robotic subjects is still relatively small, and there is a big gap compared with the United States and Europe. The research on the high level of robotics theory and key technologies in China still needs to be advanced and reasonable and complete basic research planning as well as a long-term investment is needed.