Academic Report：Mutli-Scale Robotics
Speaker：Prof. Toshio Fukuda
Time：2015.12.24 16:00
Location：Conference Room, 4th Floor, Hydraulic Old Building, Yuquan Campus
Abstract：
This talk presents an overview of the multi-scale robotics, based on the Cellular Robotics System, which is the basic concept of the emergence of intelligence in the multi-scale way from Cell Level to the Organizational Level, proposed more than 30 years ago. It consists of many elements how the system can be structured from the individual to the group/society levels in analogy with the biological system. It covers with the wide range of challenging topics:
1.Individual robot level, Brachiation robots and multi-locomotion robots, medical robotics and simulator,
2.Cooperation and competition of the multiple robotics system
3.Distributed autonomous robotic system
4.Micro and nano robotics system
5.Bio analysis and synthesis: bio-robotics system
Brief Bio：
Toshio Fukuda graduated from Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan in 1971 and received theMaster of Engineering degree and the Doctor of Engineering degree both from the University of Tokyo, in 1973 and 1977, respectively. He joined the National Mechanical Engineering Laboratory in Japan in 1977, the Science University of Tokyo in 1981, and then joined Department of Mechanical Engineering, Nagoya University, Japan in 1989.
He is Professor Emeritus of Nagoya University, having worked as Professor of Dept. of Micro and Nano System Engineering and Dept. of Mechano-Informatics and Systems, Nagoya University, Japan and asDirector of Center for Micro and Nano Mechatronics. He has worked as Russell Springer Chaired Professor at UC Berkeley and Professor of Shenyang University of Technology, Suzhou University, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Science, Seoul National University, and Advisory Professor of Industrial Technological Research Institute in Taiwan etc.He is mainly engaging in the research fields of intelligent robotic system, micro and nano robotics, bio-robotic system, and technical diagnosis and error recovery system.
He was the President of IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (1998-1999), Director of the IEEE Division X, Systems and Control (2001-2002), the Founding President of IEEE Nanotechnology Council (2002-2005), and Region 10 Director (2013-2014). He was Editor-in-Chief of IEEE/ASME Trans. Mechatronics (2000-2002). He is currently vice-Chair of MGA Strategic Management and Analysis (2015). He was the Founding General Chairman of IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) held in Tokyo (1988). He was Founding Chair of the IEEE Workshop on Advanced Robotics Technology and Social Impacts (ARSO, 2005), Founding Chair of the IEEE Workshop on System Integration International (SII, 2008), Founding Chair of the International Symposium on Micro-Nano Mechatronics and Human Science (MHS, 1990-2012).
He has received many awards such as IEEE Eugene Mittelmann Achievement Award (1997), IEEE Third Millennium Medal (2000) , IEEE Robotics and Automation Pioneer Award (2004), IEEE Transaction Automation Science and Engineering Googol Best New Application Paper Award (2007), George Saridis Leadership Award in Robotics and Automation (2009), IEEE Robotics and Automation Technical Field Award (2010). He received the IROS Harashima Award for Innovative Technologies (2011), Friendship Award of Liaoning Province PR China (2012) and Friendship Award from Chinese Government (2014).
IEEE Fellow (1995). SICE Fellow (1995). JSME Fellow (2002), RSJ Fellow (2004), VRSJ Fellow (2011) and member of Science Council of Japan (2008-2014), and Academy of Engineering of Japan (2013-).