2007 IEEE International Conference on Integration Technology

China is turning into a manufacturing center of the world in the process of relocation of manufacturing industry to developing countries. However, developing countries' proportion of the total manufacturing value added has not seen a notable increase along past 20 years according to statistics. Substantial increase of such proportion and upgrading of competitiveness hinges on predominating core te... View full abstract»

Our project to develop arm-equipped mobile robot GRYPHON for humanitarian demining operation will be introduced. The mobile base of the GRYPHON is the off-the-self buggy vehicle and it is modified to be tele-operated by wireless control system. The GRYPHON is mounted specially designed robot arm of about 4m long with counterweight at the rear side of the arm. The arm is equipped with 2 dof wrist m... View full abstract»

With ever increased needs for an improved product quality, production efficiency, and cost in today's globalized world market, advanced process control should not only realize the accuracy of each control loops, but also has the ability to achieve an optimization control of global production indices that are closely related to the improved product quality, enhanced production efficiency and reduce... View full abstract»

Biorobotics is an emerging and deeply interdisciplinary field. The main focus of Biorobotics is to analyze biological systems according to a biomechatronic approach. Biorobotics aims at developing biomimetic robots usable as scientific tools to generate new scientific knowledge on the functioning of biological systems. Biorobotics also aims at developing new robots that are designed to have high p... View full abstract»

Industry in Taiwan inherently dominated by small and medium size enterprises mostly are engaged in OEM/ODM works, leading to the second mover approach, which is advantageous, because companies reduce their risk by entering the markets while the related technologies and manufacturing processes are in mature. Companies tend to acquire licenses from first movers, as well as purchasing, learning, and ... View full abstract»

Since the 1950's, under the pulling of the requirements of various applications and the pushing of the evolution of associated technologies, Modeling and Simulation (M&S) technology has developed to come into being synthesized specialized technology, and rapidly becomes a common and strategic technology. At present, the tendency of modern modeling and simulation technology is developing towards ne... View full abstract»

The genesis of a large variety of technologies in Mechatronics can be traced back to projects in university laboratories with industrial collaboration. Collaboration among multiple groups is particularly relevant in Mechatronics since the associated technologies belong to multiple domains (e.g., mechanical, electrical, electronic, thermal, fluid, control, computing) and mechatronic systems themsel... View full abstract»

The past decade has experienced the flourishing of the cyber infrastructure and its revolutionary effect on industry, commerce and everyday life. Beginning with email, such words as e-business, e-commerce, e-technology, e-manufacturing, e-service, e-diagnosis and a lot of more words with an e-version are being created and becoming part of everyday life. The Internet has become not only a text and ... View full abstract»

After the successful implementation of thousands of industrial robots in a large variety of production plants during the last three decades, robots are gradually appearing in our daily environment, offering their services and interacting with us. These new robots and intelligent systems are getting closer and closer to humans and are thus facing much more complex and dynamic situations. Thus they ... View full abstract»

A classical problem in biomedical imaging is the so-called limited data problem, which occurs when physical and temporal constraints prevent sufficient coverage of the data space. Traditionally, image reconstruction is formulated as a linear inverse problem, which is usually solved using Fourier transform-based methods. This approach often leads to a significant loss of spatial/temporal resolution... View full abstract»

Adaptiveness is one of the target functions of research on autonomous robotic systems. However, the adaptiveness realized in the robotic research so far is quite limited and specific to sample problems and systems configurations. On the other hand, all the animals from primitive ones to insects or mammals have commonly the adaptiveness to behave in an unexpected environment. Such adaptive behavior... View full abstract»

Robots are systems which consist of sensors, actuators and mechanisms, and, computers and their software. The software running on a computer(s) integrates sensors, actuators, and mechanisms into a robot to create desired functions. More than 45 years have passed, since robots have been introduced for industrial applications as industrial robots where teach-in and playback concept plays an importan... View full abstract»

Models of ventricular mechanics have been developed over the last 20 years to include finite deformation theory, anisotropic and inhomogeneous material properties and an accurate representation of ventricular geometry using finite element methods. The sequence of electrical activation in the myocardium is also modeled using ionic current based cellular models and reaction-diffusion equations at th... View full abstract»

This talk focuses on our recent research in developing image segmentation algorithms for identifying and measuring the sizes of objects in static images or a video sequence. Such a capability is essential in a variety of applications including medical imaging, remote sensing and, in our case, monitoring the industrial process of ore-crushing. Specifically, this talk will overview our novel solutio... View full abstract»

The diverse locomotion modes and physiology of biological snakes make them supremely adapted for their environment. The special structure of snakes and their unique movement offer them peculiar ability of climbing and moving even in some ill-conditioned environments such as on the marshland or in narrow tubes. In this talk, I first give several designs of snake-like robots that can perform more ef... View full abstract»

The Korean Brain Neuroinformatics Research Program got into the 3rd phase from July 2004 for 4 years, which is regarded as the final phase of Korean brain national research program started from November 1998 for 10 years. It is a joint effort of researchers from many different disciplines including neuroscience, cognitive science, electrical engineering, and computer science, and currently about 3... View full abstract»