Mobile robots research for innovative industrial applications: A new research trend happening in Luxembourg
Mobile robots such as service robots, highly automated cars, drones or space robots are expected to become a huge market in the coming years. In contrast to the stationary and automatic robots arms, mobile service robots will be able to move in an unstructured environment, to perform complex tasks with a higher degree of autonomy and also to closely interact with humans users. While considerable progress has been made in recent years in single areas such as mechatronics, sensors, control, computer vision or artificial intelligence, a still remaining problem is the efficient overall and systematic design and engineering of autonomous mobile robots and how to efficiently transfer the research results into innovative, safe and reliable but also cost-efficient mobile robotic products. This issue has to be solved in both sides, the research and the industry.
This connection is called to be more direct and efficient than has been done during the last decade. Innovative companies were, in most of the times, willing to have this cooperation but in most of the cases the ecosystem to collaborate were not efficiently created. Nowadays, some countries are trying to push this cooperation harder, and one of this countries is Luxembourg. After beat successfully the steel crisis of the 1970s and the financial crisis happen in last decade, this country is used to reinvent itself many times. They are convinced since some years that the future is on research and create this kind of ecosystem based on successful models such as Silicon Valley. One of the selected research topics is Robotics for the uses in ground, aerial and space robotics. One of the examples is the national initiative for spaceresources.lu. In this talk I will speak about the research situation in Luxembourg and some on the more challenging projects in robotics that we, at the Automation and Robotics Research Group, are leading nowadays in collaboration with innovative industrial companies and thanks to the ecosystem created by the country.
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- Date: 28 May 2018
- Time: 04:00 PM to 05:30 PM
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- Queensland University of Technology
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- Brisbane, Queensland
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- Building: S Block, Level 11
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- Starts 21 May 2018 03:54 PM
- Ends 28 May 2018 06:54 PM
- All times are (UTC+10:00) Brisbane
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Miguel Olivares of Automation & Robotics Research Group. Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust. University of Luxembourg
Mobile robots research for innovative industrial applications: A new research trend happening in Luxembourg
Biography:
Dr. Miguel Olivares-Mendez is a Research Scientist and major responsible of the research activities on mobiles robotics in the Automation & Robotics Research Group at the SnT-University of Luxembourg, under the leading supervision of Prof. Holger Voos, head of the mentioned research group.
Dr. Olivares Mendez received the Diploma in Computer Science Engineering in 2006 from the University of Malaga (UMA), Spain, and received the M.Sc. degree in Robotics and Automation and PhD degree in Robotics and Automation from the Industrial Engineering Faculty at the Technical University of Madrid (UPM), Spain, in 2009 and 2013, respectively. In 2011 he was working at the QUT-ARCAA during six months., and in 2012 he worked at the EPFL in Switzerland for three months. He got the Best PhD Thesis award of 2013 by the European Society for Fuzzy Logic and Technology (EUSFLAT). In May 2013 he joined the Interdisciplinary Center for Security Reliability and Trust (SnT) at the University of Luxembourg (Uni.Lu).
Since 2013, Dr. Olivares Mendez is acting as Associate Editor for Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems (JINT). In 2015, he was selected to be Reviewer Editor for the Robotic Control Systems, part of the journal(s) Frontiers in Robotics and AI. He has been a member of the organizing committee of the Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems (BICS) 2010 conference in Madrid, Spain, serving as Local Arrangement Chair. He was the Financial Chair of the IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation 2015 in Luxembourg and participated as member of the program committee in numerous renowned international scientific conferences in robotics and control. The main research interests of Dr. Olivares Mendez are on unmanned aerial systems, computer vision, sensor fusion, vision-based control, soft-computing control techniques and robotics and automation. He has published over 70 book chapters and papers in scientific journals and conferences. Furthermore, he was the project lead or main supervisor of 7 research projects.
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