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                        **Joint Seminar**

                Department and Computer Science
                           and
                Department of Mechanical Engineering
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Speaker:        Prof. Zuoliang Cao
                Professor of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
                Vice President of Tianjin University of Technology, China

Topic:          "Omnidirectional Vision Navigation Technology for
                 Mobile Robots and AGVs"

Date:           Friday, 8 November 2002

Time:           4:00 pm - 5:00pm

Venue:          Lecture Theater H
                (Chen Kuan Cheng Forum, near lift nos. 27/28)
                HKUST


ABSTRACT:

Outline of the Presentation

1.      TUT-I Omini-vision based autonomous mobile Robotic platform


        a)      Introduction
        b)      Configuration of the omnidirectional vision navigation
                units
        c)      Teach/playback operation mode
        d)      Lens distortion and pixel correction
        e)      The motion control modules

2.      Omnidirectional Vision Understanding

3.      Technical Points on Omni-vision Navigation

4.      Movie Show


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Biography:

Professor Zuoliang Cao, Vice President of Tianjin University of Technology
(TUT), China., received his BS (1967) and MS (1969) degrees from
Harbin Military Engineering College, China. He, as an engineer, was
employed at Behai Manufacturing Engineering Company for ten years. Then he
joined the faculty groups of the TUT. He is currently a Professor of
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering. His research interests focus on
Mechatronics, Robotics, Intelligent Machines, Computer Vision and
Mechanical Control Engineering. He has received numerous awards including
the Excellent Contribution Expert Award issued by Chinese Government,
Machatronics Expert Award issued by Tianjin Scientific Committee. He spent
three years at University of Cincinnati as a visiting professor and worked
on the cooperation project of mobile robots. They cooperated with Tennant
Company to develop a Vision Guided AGV and even had a US patent awarded.
He also built an advanced prototype of an Omni-vision Guided Vehicle at
TUT on the project sponsored by 863 China National High-Tech Development
Program. More than 70 scientific papers have published. He also got the
grants and Awards on Tianjin Science and Technology Progress, The Second
Class Invention Award and so on.


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