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  • 1.  Systems Analytics Global Leaders' Seminars: Online Seminar by Professor Lihui Wang (Nov 18, Wed)

    Posted 11-16-2020 22:37
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    Dear colleagues and friends,

    We wish to express our gratitude to Professor Stefan Minner for his insightful seminar delivered for the "Systems Analytics Global Leaders' Seminars." The recorded seminar has been posted to the website of this online seminar series: https://www.saleaders.hku.hk/.

    It is our great honor to have Professor Lihui Wang to deliver the next seminar (Nov 18, Wed). The details of the seminar follow this message and are presented on the attached poster.

    For the upcoming seminars, please visit the website: https://www.saleaders.hku.hk/. For news and announcements, you are welcome to subscribe to the seminar series through the web link.

    We are looking forward to seeing you. 

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    Speaker:
    Professor Lihui Wang
    Professor and Chair of Sustainable Manufacturing
    Department of Production Engineering, KTH Royal Institute of Technology

    Editor-in-Chief,
    International Journal of Manufacturing Research
    Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing
    Journal of Manufacturing Systems


    Date and time:
    Nov 18 (Wed), 2020, 22:00 HKT (GMT+8)  [Local time]
    Zoom link: https://hku.zoom.us/j/93965533071       Zoom meeting ID: 939 6553 3071


    Seminar title:

    Brain Robotics for Human-Robot Collaboration

    Abstract:
    During the past decades, electroencephalography (EEG) has been used to analyse and understand the behaviours of human brains. Despite the challenges in capturing EEG signals accurately and consistently, recent developments in analysing brain EEG signals show the potential in using the signals for communication with different manufacturing equipment such as robots for human-robot collaboration (HRC). Using human brainwaves for communication with a robot offers two major advantages: (1) it allows an operator to control a robot while performing a related task to co-work with the robot, which will have a positive impact on the productivity at the robotic cell level; and (2) it provides an auxiliary channel for multimodal collaborations with the robot in addition to voice, gesture and haptic commands. For example, using mental commands to control the robot can overcome the difficulties that often accompany the usage of voice commands in a relatively noisy robotic environment. This seminar will first present a snapshot of AI history and the latest advancement on brain robotics and HRC. In order to understand the new technology and its future potential in HRC assembly, examples of brainwave-driven robot control will be explained. This seminar will then project the future growth enabled by brain robotics, with the challenges to be identified.

    Speaker bio:
    Lihui Wang is a Professor and Chair of Sustainable Manufacturing at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden. His research interests are presently focused on brain robotics, cyber-physical systems, real-time monitoring and control, predictive maintenance, human-robot collaborations, and adaptive manufacturing systems. Professor Wang is actively engaged in various professional activities. He is the Editor-in-Chief of International Journal of Manufacturing Research, Editor-in-Chief of Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing, and Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Manufacturing Systems. He has published 9 books and authored in excess of 500 scientific publications. Professor Wang is a Fellow of Canadian Academy of Engineering, CIRP, SME and ASME. He is also a Professional Engineer in Canada, the President of North American Manufacturing Research Institution of SME, and the Chairman of Swedish Production Academy.



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    Yong-Hong Kuo
    Assistant Professor
    The University of Hong Kong
    Pokfulam Road
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  • 2.  RE: Systems Analytics Global Leaders' Seminars: Online Seminar by Professor Lihui Wang (Nov 18, Wed)

    Posted 11-17-2020 06:53
    There are some members of 

    ASTM Committee F48 on Exoskeletons and Exosuits

    who might have an interest in this upcoming Seminar:

    Contact directly via:
    https://www.astm.org/COMMITTEE/F48.htm

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    Klaus Peter Finke Harkonen
    Principal
    Finke Harkonen Oy
    Esooo
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  • 3.  RE: Systems Analytics Global Leaders' Seminars: Online Seminar by Professor Lihui Wang (Nov 18, Wed)

    Posted 11-17-2020 07:54
    Thank you for your suggestion! We have passed the information to them.

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    Yong-Hong Kuo
    Assistant Professor
    The University of Hong Kong
    Pokfulam Road
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