HKUST-HKPC Joint Research Lab 
for Industrial AI and Robotic
香港科技大學 - 香港生產力促進局
工業人工智能與機器人聯合研究中心

The HKUST-HKPC Joint Research Lab  for Industrial AI and Robotic (INAIR) aims to develop innovative industrial technologies that can address the technical challenges being faced by the manufacturers and provide practical solutions with the adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics technology.
本聯合研究中心旨在研發創新工業科技，解決製造商面臨的技術挑戰，並提供應用了人工智能和機器人技術的實用解決方案，協助香港工業界提升生產力和推動培育智能及先進製造工業的創科人才。 

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Key Research Topics

Industrial AI

Developing novel big data-driven AI solutions that can simulate and analyze the complicated production systems

Big data

Developing versatile sensors with edge-computing capability supported by stream data acquisition and analysis power for smart manufacturing applications, with the adoption of Internet of Things

Data science

Equipping software systems and robotics agents with effective visual interfaces to improve information understandability, feedback control and human-in-the-loop decision making with the smart use of Human-Computer Interfaces

Robotics

Developing grippers for the food industry, autonomous systems for grinding and spraying for the hardware and plastics industry, and intelligent equipment for cleaning and inspection of facilities

Lab Management Team

Prof. ZHOU Xiaofang

Director

Otto Poon Professor of Engineering and Chair Professor, HKUST

Prof. GE Ming

Co-director

General Manager of Robotics and Artificial Intelligence Division of HKPC
Chief Operating Officer of Hong Kong Industrial Artificial Intelligence & Robotics Centre (FLAIR)
Prof.  TSUNG Fugee

Associate Director

Chair Professor and Acting Dean of Information Hub of HKUST (GZ)
Dr. ZHANG Ruiyuan

Lab Manager

Postdoc Fellow of HKUST

Research Projects

2023-2024

The research projects to be carried out in the Joint Lab

2022-2023

The research projects done by the Joint Lab

Joint Lab Collaborators

People

The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
  • Automatic Surface Defect Detection with Machine Learning:
    Assistant Prof. Chen Qifeng, Yuenfui Lau, Junming Chen
  • Small Defect Inspection for Product Quality Control:
    Prof. TSUNG Fugee
  • Identification and Root Cause Analysis of Congestions in the Large-scale Cargo Handling System:
    Prof. ZHOU Xiaofang, Dr. ZHANG Ruiyuan
  • Robot Task Learning through Virtual Human Demonstration:
    Associate Prof. MA Xiaojuan, Hanfang Lyu
  • Large Scale AGV Path Planning System:
    Assistant Prof. LI Lei, Ruizhong Wu, Zizhuo Xu, Xinjie Zhou 
  • Optimizing Next Best View Algorithm for Anomaly Detection:
    Prof. CHEN Lei
  • Real-time Semantic Segmentation and 3D Motion Planning for Navigation:
    Assistant Prof. Lei Zhu, Assistant Prof. Zeyu Wang, Prof. Fugee Tsung
  • Optimal Grasping of Multiple Vacuum Grippers for Unknown Mass Distribution Objects:
    Associate Prof. Hongyu Yu
  • Category Level Object Pose Estimation with Diffusion Features:
    Prof. Ping Tan
  • Adaptive Learning Deburring System:
    Assistant Prof. Jing Tang, Prof. Lei Chen
  • Real-Time Traffic Forecasting for Optimized Large-Scale Cargo Handling:
     Prof. Xiaofang Zhou, Prof. Jiheng Zhang
  • AI-based Ultra Flexible AGV System:
     Assistant Prof. Lei Li



HKPC/FLAIR
  • Automatic Surface Defect Detection with Machine Learning:
    Ivy Law (FLAIR), Freeman Hui (HKPC), Bonny Lu (FLAIR), Frodo Chan (FLAIR), Jim Liu (FlAIR)
  • Small Defect Inspection for Product Quality Control:
    Ivy Law (FLAIR), Freeman Hui (HKPC), Alvis Lee (HKPC),  Bonny Lu (FLAIR), Frodo Chan (FLAIR), Jim Liu (FlAIR)
  • Identification and Root Cause Analysis of Congestions in the Large-scale Cargo Handling System:
    Dora He (FLAIR), Freeman Hui (HKPC), Nicholas Tam (FLAIR) , Sean Lau (FLAIR) , Gavin Huang (FLAIR) , Yu Xin Cheng (FLAIR) , Ivy Law (FLAIR)
  • Robot Task Learning through Virtual Human Demonstration:
    Dr. Leiliang Gong (HKPC), Freeman Hui (HKPC), Terence Li (FLAIR), Ivy Law (FLAIR) 
  • Large Scale AGV Path Planning System:
    Frodo Chan (FLAIR), Wilson Leung (HKPC) , Hazel Cheung (HKPC) , Brian Wang (HKPC) , Freeman Hui (HKPC) , Michael Fong (FLAIR),  Bonny Lu (FLAIR), Ivy Law (FLAIR) 
  • Optimizing Next Best View Algorithm for Anomaly Detection:
    Ivy Law (FLAIR), Freeman Hui (HKPC), Alvis Lee (HKPC), Xiaodong Chen (HKPC), Bonny Lu (FLAIR)
  • Real-time Semantic Segmentation and 3D Motion Planning for Navigation:
    Ivy Law (FLAIR), Frodo Chan (FLAIR), Andy Wu (FLAIR), Dickson Zhang (FLAIR), Joanna Chen (FLAIR)
  • Optimal Grasping of Multiple Vacuum Grippers for Unknown Mass Distribution Objects:
    Terence Li (FLAIR), Ryan Yan (HKPC), Marco Leung (FLAIR), Alan Cheng (FLAIR), Saxon Wang (FLAIR), Paul Cheung(HKPC), Joanna Chen (FLAIR)
  • Category Level Object Pose Estimation with Diffusion Features:
    Dr. Leiliang Gong (HKPC), Terence Li (FLAIR), Zoe Qu (FLAIR), Jacqueline Zhang (FLAIR), Alan Cheng (FLAIR), Ivy Law (FLAIR), Joanna Chen (FLAIR)
  • Adaptive Learning Deburring System:
    Terence Li (FLAIR), Ryan Yan (HKPC), Paul Cheung (HKPC), Marco Leung (FLAIR), Frodo Chan (FLAIR), Saxon Wang (FLAIR), Ivy Law (FLAIR), Joanna Chen (FLAIR)
  • Real-Time Traffic Forecasting for Optimized Large-Scale Cargo Handling:
    Sean Lau (FLAIR), Dora He (FLAIR), Nicholas Tam (FLAIR), Morgan Hiew (FLAIR), Ivy Law (FLAIR), Joanna Chen (FLAIR)
  • AI-based Ultra Flexible AGV System:
    Frodo Chan (FLAIR), Hazel Cheung (HKPC), Ivy Law (FLAIR), Saxon Wang (FLAIR), ZeKai Wu (FLAIR), Dora He (FLAIR), Joanna Chen (FLAIR)




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