“机构理论与装备设计”教育部重点实验室 现代机构学与机器人学中心 学术报告会

u 会议时间：7月31日（周五）下午15:00–17:00

u 会议地点：机械学院10号楼二层会议室

报告人简介:

l Dr. Shaoping Bai, Associate Professor

l Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering of Aalborg University , Denmark

Dr. Shaoping Bai received the Ph.D. degree in Mechanical and Production Engineering from The Nanyang Technological University, Singapore in 2001, the MEng degree from Tsinghuan University and B.S. degrees from Harbin Institute of Technology in 1993 and 1988, respectively. He is an Associate Professor at the department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, Aalborg University (AAU), Denmark, where he teaches courses on dynamics and mechatronics, etc. His research interests include medical and assistive robots, parallel manipulators, walking robots, dynamics and design. He is one of the founders of Centre for Robotics Research, AAU. He was the coordinator of the CRR for the year 2010-2012. He is on the board of directors of the university's programme 'Next Generation of Hybrid Andriod'. Dr. Bai participates in a number of national and international research projects, including EU AAL project AXO-SUIT.

报告摘要：

As the global ageing predictions become reality, assistive robots are being increasingly considered as future aids to help elderly persons staying active in their daily living tasks. By deploying such assistive aids, elderly persons are expected to be able to live independently with improved quality of life.

In the talk, design and development of assistive robots are described with considerations on the problems of novel mechanism design, biomechanics modeling for physical human-robot interaction, system development and end-use involvement etc. Two examples are presented. The first example presents an EU project called AXO-SUIT project (www.axo-suit.eu ) – funded by the European Commission under the Ambient Assisted Living Joint Programme Initiative Call 6. The project aims to develop the core technologies and prototype products of wearable exoskeletons to provide comprehensive physical assistance in mobility, object handling and grasping for the elderly. The second example is about the design and development of a 5-dof lightweight robot, addressing the problem of lightweight design optimization to minimize the robot weight. An optimization method by means of integrated drive-train and structural design to effectively reduce the robot weight is presented.