Prof. Ren-Quan LUO

Schedule

July 8th,2016

Topic

Intelligent Robots Encompassing Human Society: Are You Ready？

Abstract

Bill Gates has written an article back on 2007 at “Scientific American” which stated that “the next hot field will be Robotics”. It is emphasized that intelligent robots will enter into human societies and families for providing assistances to the human beings. As the time pass by, we all evidence the dream slowly become true. There are so many progresses have been revealed that the service robots, such as Nao, Pepper, Buddy, Jibo, etc. have made very interesting applications. In this talk, the state of the art technological development, such as machine learning, cognitive systems and robotics, industry 4.0 key spirits on intelligent robots, such as human- robot collaboration and its global market trends will be discussed. The recent research results in the international center of excellence on intelligent robotics and automation research at National Taiwan University including video demonstration will be presented. Future challenges and perspectives on this subject will also be included.

Resume

• Dr. Ren C. Luo received Dipl.-Ing. and Dr.-Ing. Degrees in EE from the Technische Universitaet Berlin, Germany.
• He is currently a CTO of ASUS Computer Inc. and an Irving T. Ho Chair Professor in National Taiwan University; He is a member of EU Echord Industrial Advisory Board.
• Dr. Luo served two terms as President of National Chung Cheng University and Founding President of Robotics Society of Taiwan. He served as an Assistant, Associate and tenure Full Professor of Department of ECE at North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA and Toshiba Chair Professor in the University of Tokyo, Japan.
• His research interests include robotic sensing and control systems, multi-sensor fusion and integration, 3D printing additive manufacturing, mechatronics and computer vision. He has authored more than 450 papers on these topics, which have been published in refereed international transactions/ journals and refereed conference proceedings. He also holds more than 25 international patents.
• Dr. Luo received IEEE Eugean Mittlemann Outstanding Research Achievement Award, IEEE IROS Harashima Innovative Technologies Award; ALCOA Company Foundation Outstanding Engineering Research Award, USA; Ministry of Science and Technology Outstanding Research Awards; TECO Company Foundation Outstanding Science and Technology Research Achievement Award.
• Dr. Luo served 5 years as Editor-in-Chief of IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, Co-Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics.
• Dr. Luo was President of IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (2000-2001); Program Director of Automation Technology Division at Ministry of Science and Technology; Dr. Luo served as Adviser of Ministry of Economics Affairs and Science and Technology Adviser to the Prime Minister in Taiwan.
• In addition to the contributions to various academic, industrial and governmental professional services in Taiwan, Dr. Luo also served as referee and final review panel member for the evaluation and assessment of national competitive grants program in major cross-disciplinary research project for numerous international organizations and countries, such as USA, Japan, Canada, Australia, European Union, Austria, Swiss, Singapore, Hong Kong etc.
• Dr. Luo contributes regularly to IEEE sponsored international conferences by serving as conference General Chairs, such as IEEE/RSJ IROS 1992, IEEE/RSJ IROS 2010, IEEE ICRA 2003, IEEE IECON 2007). Dr. Luo is a Fellow of IEEE and a Fellow of IET.