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SUMMARY:Innovative Robotic Systems and Applications to Surgery and Agile L
 ocomotion
DTSTART:20191009T100000
DTEND:20191009T104500
DTSTAMP:20260604T030703Z
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:Prof. Kwok Wai Samuel Au\nDepartment of Mechanical and Automat
 ion Engineering\nCo-Director\, Chow Yuk Ho Technology Centre for Innovati
 ve Medicine\nThe Chinese University of Hong Kong  \nBioinspired Robotic
 s and Medical Technology (BMT) group is a newly established research grou
 p at CUHK\, focusing on the development of innovative robotic systems for
  medical application and agile locomotion.  In this talk\, we will pro
 vide the overview of the robotic system development at BMT group in these
  two areas over the past 2.5 years.  In the first part of the talk\, we 
 will present our efforts on the development of innovative legged robots 
 with greater mobility/efficiency/robustness\, comparable to its biologica
 l counterpart.  We will discuss the fundamental challenges of this prob
 lem and show our initial analytical\, simulation\, and experimental resul
 ts to demonstrate the feasibility of developing such systems through the 
 use of external appendages and Null Space Avoidance Control Framework. 
  We believe the proposed solutions could lead to new mechanical designs 
 and control frameworks of under-actuated or non-holonomic robotic systems 
 as well as more understanding on how animals move.\nIn the second part\,
  we will talk about various medical robotics development in our group to 
 improve the safety\, accessibility to confined spaces\, and efficacy for
  robotic-assisted surgery including the development of the innovative rob
 otic articulated retractor and drilling instrument for abdominal and orth
 opedic surgeries and their corresponding control systems.  We will pr
 esent the results of some advanced control system technology development\
 , where some of them have been published and adopted in the dVRK medical 
 robotic community for open-source research and development.  We will als
 o discuss our plan to advance the medical robotics in the next few years.
   \n\nBiography\nProfessor Kwok Wai Samuel Au received the B.Eng. and M
 .Phil degrees in Mechanical and Automation Engineering from the Chinese U
 niversity of Hong Kong(CUHK)\, Hong Kong in 1997 and 1999\, respectively
 . He completed his Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering at MIT in 2007\
 , where he invented (with Prof. Hugh Herr) the MIT Robotic Ankle-foot Pr
 osthesis.  This invention was named one of the Best Inventions of Year
  by TIME magazine in 2007 and was later commercialized by iWalk\, Inc.\nD
 r. Au is an Associate Professor of the Department of Mechanical and Autom
 ation Engineering at CUHK since Sept\, 2016.  Before joining CUHK\, he
  was the manager of Systems Analysis of the New Product Development Depa
 rtment at Intuitive Surgical\, Inc.  At Intuitive Surgical\, he co-inven
 ted and was leading the software and control algorithm development for th
 e FDA cleared da Vinci Si Single-Site surgical platform (2012)\, Single-
 Site Wristed Needle Driver (2014)\, and da Vinci Xi Single-Site surgical 
 platform (2016).  Since the official launch at Dec 2012\, over 150K pa
 tients have received the single incision surgery through this platform. 
  He was also a founding team member for the early development of the rob
 otic-assisted catheter system for lung biopsy (FDA Cleared da Vinci ION)
  at Intuitive Surgical. Dr. Au is the author and co-author of over 18 pee
 r-reviewed manuscripts and conference journals. He currently holds 12 US
  patents (and over 8 pending US Patents/Provisional Patents). His inventi
 ons/works featured in numerous magazines such as New York Times and Techn
 ology Review. He has won numerous awards including the first prize in th
 e American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Student Mechanism Desig
 n Competition in 2007\, Intuitive Surgical Problem Solving Award in 2010\
 , and Intuitive Surgical Inventor Award in 2011.\n 
LOCATION:INM 11 https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==INM%2011
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