Jianda Han and Yuqing He
State Key Laboratory of Robotics
Shenyang Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences
jdhan@sia.cn

Abstract

With the great development of robotics in recent years, many field robots have been expected to carry out tasks in outdoor surroundings, where the robots may suffer from complex terrains, dynamic obstacles/dangerous, bad weather conditions, and so on. Thus, one of the challenging topics is: how a field robot can survive the environment while handling the assigned tasks in an optimal/intelligent approach. The autonomy, which enables robots working on those complicated circumstances with reduced human intervention, has been becoming one of the main goals of mobile robotics. In this talk, I will introduce a feasible control scheme that has been implemented on and experimentally tested on ground mobile and flying robots. The scheme includes four aspects: 1) modeling and understanding the behavior environment; 2) behavior optimization; 3) autonomous learning; and 4) cooperation and coordination of multiple robots. By this scheme, we have realized the autonomous flight of the 100kg-level flying robots and the long-distance autonomous navigation of polar robots. Some of the experimental tests and the applications will be also demonstrated in this talk. 

Short Bio

Han Jianda received his PhD degree in Electrical Engineering from the Harbin Institute of Technology in 1998. Currently he is a professor and deputy director of the State Key Laboratory of Robotics, Shenyang Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences. His research interests include nonlinear estimation and robust control, control for the autonomy of robots, and robotic system integrations and applications such as medical and assistant robots, ground mobile robots, as well as flying robots. His team developed the first polar robot of China, which was tested in Antarctica in 2008 and 2011; and also the 100kg flying robot, which has realized its applications such as rescue, precision agriculture, power cable construction, etc. Dr. Han currently also serves as a member of the 5-person Expert Panel of the Intelligent Robot Division, the National High Technology Research and Development (863) Program of China.