Plenary Talks
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Dr. Tariq Samad (IEEE CSS President, USA)
An Industry Perspective on Process Automation and Control: Architecture, Algorithms, ApplicationsAbstract:
Research in automation and control has had a profound impact on the process industries through the development of process automation systems and advanced control solutions. This presentation will discuss selected highlights of past achievements and today's state of the art in both these areas. Specific topics covered include the first distributed control systems (DCSs), recent developments in industrial wireless and cybersecurity for control systems, mega-scale automation enterprises, and advances in nonlinear model predictive control. Clean energy, especially clean coal technology and energy efficiency for industrial processes, will be highlighted as an application domain that the controls research community can contribute to and have an impact on. Examples of relevant developments in Honeywell will be reviewed.
Brief-biography:
Tariq Samad is a Corporate Fellow with Honeywell Automation and Control Solutions and the 2009 President of the IEEE Control Systems Society. His career with Honeywell has spanned 23 years, during which time he has contributed to automation and control technology developments for applications in unmanned aircraft, electric power systems, the process industries, building management, automotive engines, and clean energy. His research interests relate broadly to automation, intelligence, and autonomy for complex engineering systems. Dr. Samad holds 15 patents and has authored or coauthored over 100 publications. He was editor-in-chief of IEEE Control Systems Magazine from 1998 to 2003. Dr. Samad is a Fellow of the IEEE and the recipient of several awards including the 2008 IEEE CSS Control Systems Technology Award. He received a B.S. degree in Engineering and Applied Science from Yale University and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University.
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Prof. Hyungsuck Cho (KAIST, Korea)Optomechatronics: Challenges to Smart Integration of Optical and
Mechatronic Technologies with Controllable and Observable ElementsAbstract:
Optical elements enhance the functionality of mechatronics and in many cases introduce entirely new capabilities. Likewise, mechatronic elements bring the same synergistic effects to optical systems. This technology is termed "Optomechatronics" or "Optomechatronic Technology." This talk, with emphasis on importance of multi-disciplinary and multi-technology fusion, addresses the underlying concepts and features of the technology by analyzing a variety of practical optomechatronic systems such as optical storage systems, microscopes including AFM, micro-nano manipulation systems, MOEMS, adaptive imaging systems, laser printing systems, optical sensing and measurement systems, etc. The analysis decomposes a system into different functional units and identifies their functionalities required to generate desirable system performance. This analyzing process shows how the signals of optical and mechatronic elements are interacting together to produce the necessary functionalities and how such interaction can be achieved with the aids of controllable and observable elements . As an illustrative field, the later part of this talk focuses on an adaptive/controllable optical imaging which comprises control of imaging view direction, image distortion correction, selective imaging, image stabilization, image tracking, sensing and measurement, noise reduction, and so on.
Brief-biography:
Professor Cho is with Department of Mechanical Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Korea since 1978 after receiving Ph.D. degree, University of California, Berkeley, USA,1977. Since then he has been actively involved in scholarly and academic activities on international level during his career. He founded the International Journal of Optomechatronics, 2007 (T&F Group), now serving as the founding Editor-in-Chief and has served a number of other international journals, including IEEE Tr. on Industrial Electronics and IFAC, Control Engineering Practice. He founded several International Conferences/Workshops including International Symposium on Optomechatronic Technologies in affiliation with SPIE 2000, and recently hosted, as General Chair, a number of International Conferences including 17th IFAC World Congress (2008), and cochaired a number of International Conferences such as International Symposium on Optomechatronic Technologies (2000-2008).
During his research career, he published more than 400 technical research papers in international journals and conferences, and authored and edited several books and conference proceedings. He authored Optomechatronics: Fusion of Optical and Mechatronic Engineering, 2005. (T&F Group). During his academic career, he has been invited to and stayed at eight different foreign universities and research organizations where he was actively involved in teaching courses, advising students and research stay. He delivered more than 30 plenary talks, invited talks and seminars in over 14 countries in recent years. In the past, he was a Humboldt Research Fellow (1984-85) and POSCO Chaired Professor (1995-2001). -
Prof. Toshio Fukuda (Nagoya Univ., Japan)Measurement and Control in Micro-Nano Robotics and Automation SystemAbstract:
There are many products available in micro and nano application markets and also research and development projects going around the world in the field of micro and nano robotics and automation systems. In this talk, some salient aspects from the macro to the micro and the nano world are first overviewed in the robotics and automation systems. Then it will be shown that the micro and nano manipulation technology plays important roles of measurement and control in the micro and nano robotics and automation systems for many fields. The basic technologies are fabrication, instrument and assembly in the micro and nano world, using MEMS and NEMS technologies with robotic manipulation technology. Some examples are the nano laboratory based on the nano robotic manipulation to deal with nano materials such as carbon nanotube and wire, nano sensor and actuator and others from the system viewpoint. The bio system and life science are also promising areas: There are many applications to the bio-medical areas, such as the medical robots and simulators, bio systems applications. Finally the concept of the "System Cell Engineering" is shown for an example of measurement and control in the micro and nano world.
Brief-biography:
Toshio Fukuda graduated from Waseda University in 1971 and received the Master of Engineering degree and Dr. Eng. from the University of Tokyo in 1973 and 1977, respectively. Meanwhile, he studied at the graduate school of Yale University from 1973 to 1975. In 1977, he joined the National Mechanical Engineering Laboratory and became Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Stuttgart from 1979 to 1980. He joined the Science University of Tokyo in 1982, and then joined Nagoya University in 1989. Currently, he is Professor of Department of Micro-Nano System Engineering and Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering, Nagoya University, Japan, mainly engaging in the research fields of intelligent robotic system, cellular robotic system, mechatronics and micro-nano robotics. He has published over 1,000 technical papers in micro system, robotics, mechatronics and automation areas. He was awarded, IEEE Eugene Mittlemann Award (1997), IEEE Millennium Medal (2000), Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Research Award (2002), Fanuc FA and Robot Foundation Best Paper Award (2004), Pioneer in Robotics and Automation Award (2004), Best paper award from RSJ (2004), Distinguished Service Award in Robotics and Automation Society (2005) and Research Award from Ministry of Education, Science and Technology (2005). Achievement award from SICE-SI (2005), ROBOMEC Best Paper Award from JSME Robotics and Mechatronics Division (2006), Good Design Special Award from Ministry of Economic, Trade and Industry (2006)., 2007 IEEE Nanotechnology Council Distinguished Service Award (2007), IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering 2006 Googol Best New Application Paper Award (2007), SPIE Nano Engineering Award (2008), JSME Funai Award (2008), and others He was the Vice President of IEEE IES (1990-1999), IEEE Neural Network Council Secretary (1992-1993), IFSA Vice President (1997-2001), IEEE Robotics and Automation Society President (1998-1999), Editor-in-Chief, IEEE / ASME Transactions on Mechatronics (2000-2002), IEEE Division X Director (2001-2002), IEEE Nanotechnology Council President (2002-2005), and President of SOFT (Japan Society for Fuzzy Theory and Intelligent Informatics)(2003-2005). IEEE Fellow (1995), SICE Fellow (1995), JSME Fellow (2001), RSJ Fellow (2004), Science Council of Japan Member (2008- )