主讲人：马书根 教授 海外兼职博导 日本立命馆大学

时间：2008年6月26日 星期四  上午9：00

地点：格物楼 201 （原新教学楼）

承办：机电学院

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Title:  Design and Biological Control of Snake-like Robots

Abstract:

The diverse locomotion modes and physiology of biological snakes make

them supremely adapted for their environment. The special structure of

snakes and their unique movement offer them peculiar ability of climbing

and moving even in some ill-conditioned environments such as on the

marshland or in narrow tubes. In this talk, I first give several designs

of snake-like robots that can perform more efficient motions and then

present control methods for these robots, mainly on the biological

control method. Moreover, I would like to introduce some of our

snake-related robots, including a shape-shifting mobile robot, a tracked

reconfigurable modular robot, and a 3D snake-like robot with active

crawlers.

Biography:

Shugen MA was born in China in 1963. He received his Ph.D. degrees in

Mechanical Engineering Science from Tokyo Institute of Technology

(Tokyo, Japan) in 1991. From 1991 to 1992 he worked for Komatsu Ltd. as

a Research Engineer, and from 1992 to 1993 he was at University of

California (Riverside, USA) as a Visiting Scholar. Since July 1993 he

had been with Ibaraki University (Japan) as an Associate Professor of

Department of Systems Engineering. From October 2005, he joined to

Ritsumeikan University and now as a Professor of Department of Robotics.

He also serves as director of the international center at Biwako-Kusatsu

Campus, Ritsumeikan Unoversity, from April 2006. He is also holding the

Professor position in the Shenyang Institute of Automation, Chinese

Academy of Sciences, and Oversea's Partner of the China 111 Project,

Harbin Institute of Technology. His research interest is in the design

and control theory of new types of robots, rescue robotics, and

Bio-robotics.

He was awarded the outstanding paper prize from the Society of

Instrument and Control Engineers of Japan in 1992, the outstanding paper

award from Counselor of Education of the Embassy of PRC in 1997, the T.

J. Tarn best robotics paper award at 2005 IEEE International Conference

on Robotics and Biomimetics, the outstanding paper award of China

Association for Science and Technology (CAST) in 2007, and the best

paper award of the Chinese Journal of Mechanical Engineering in 2007. He

was also awarded the "Overseas Distinguished Professor" of the Chinese

Academy of Sciences in 2001, the " Pioneer Researcher" of the Shenyang

Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2005, and the

"Excellent Ph.D. Supervisor Award" of the Shenyang Institute of

Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2007.

He is a member of the IEEE, JSME, SICE, and the Robotics Society of

Japan. He was an associate editor of IEEE Transaction of Robotics, is an

editor of Advanced Robotics, and serves many societies and conferences

as committee members and chairs.