Biography: AProf Matthew A. Joordens (Member -IEEE, Fellow - The Institution of Engineers Australia, Mensa) began his career with Industrial Control Technology designing control systems to automate various different industrial processes. For 5 years he designed microprocessor based control systems for companies such as Ford, Pilkington Glass, Webtek and Blue Circle Southern Cement. He then moved to Deakin University in 1992 and wrote their first electronics units. Using his industrial experience he designed one of the first Australian Engineering degrees in Mechatronics that still runs at Deakin University. He currently lectures units in Robotics and Artificial Intelligence. His research in robotics is centred on the control of a system of systems of underwater robots. His general research areas of interest are; macro, nano and swarm robotics, surface and underwater robotics, industrial control and haptics.

Speech Title: The Challenges of An underwater Swarm of Robots

Abstract: An underwater System (Swarm) of Systems (mobile robots) have a unique set of challenges compared to any other robotic swarm. The watery medium creates a large problem with communications and location detection. With only low frequency radio and sonar available, which both have a low bandwidth, sharing even small amounts of information between many robots is very slow. Without GPS each robots location determination is difficult. This presentation will explore these issues and possible solutions.

Biography: Yogesh Vijay Hote is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee. He received B. E. degree in Electrical Engineering from Government College of Engg., Amravati, Amravati University in 1998 and M.E. degree in Electrical Engineering with specialization in Control Systems from Government College of Engg., Pune, Pune University in 2000. He also received Ph.D degree in Instrumentation and Control Engineering., Faculty of Technology, University of Delhi, in 2009.

Dr. Hote has nearly 17 years of teaching and research experience in Electrical Engineering. His main fields of expertise include robust controller design, model order reduction techniques and their applications in load frequency control, dc-dc converters. He has guided 5 Ph.D students and 20 M.Tech students. He has published 80 articles in reputed journals and conference. He has also published a monograph related to stability analysis of uncertain systems. He is also involved in sponsored and consultancy projects.

He was a part of committee for meter testing drive conducted by Govt. of National capital territory Delhi, India in 2003. He is a member of IEEE and ISTE. He is also a member of board of studies for various institutes, in India. He has been invited as Keynote speakers in International conference and in national workshops. He has also delivered expert lecture in various universities. He has been part of technical programme committee of various national and international conferences.

Speech Title: Robust Pid For Load Frequency Control: Applications and Challenges

Biography: Luheng Wang received the Ph.D. degree from the Department of Precision Instruments and Mechanology, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. He is a full professor and doctoral supervisor with the School of Information Science and Engineering, Central South University, Changsha, China. 

He is currently the Shenghua scholar distinguished professor, and the leader of the CSU flexible sensor lab. His current research interests are to study the key mechanical/electrical properties and mechanisms for the novel flexible sensitive materials which possess multi-sensing-functions (e.g. pressure sensitive function, temperature sensitive function, magnetic sensitive function, and gas sensitive function, etc.), and to develop the multi-functional flexible sensor system based on the aforementioned sensitive materials.

Recent years, as the first author and the corresponding author, he has published series papers in the top journals in the fields of Sensor, Instrumentation, Micro Electrical Mechanical System, and Electron Device, etc. (e.g. “IEEE Trans. Ind. Electron.”, “IEEE-ASME Trans. Mecharonics”, “IEEE Trans. Electron Dev.”, “IEEE Electron Dev. Lett.”, “IEEE Trans. Instrum. Measur.”, “J. Microelectromech. S.”, “Carbon”, “Compos. Sci. Technol.”, “Compos. Part-A”, “Sens. Actuat. B-Chem.”, “Sens. Actuat. A-Phys.”, “IEEE Sens. J.”, “Smart Mater. Struct.”, “J. Polym. Sci. Part-B: Polym. Phys.”, etc.). As the first inventor, he has been granted more than ten invention patents. 

He has been invited as the reviewer for many SCI journals, such as “IEEE Transactions Series Journals”, “Compos. Part-A”, “Nanotechnol.”, “IEEE Sens. J.”, “J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys.”, “Sens. Actuat. A-Phys.”, “J. Appl. Polym. Sci.”, etc. He has also been invited as the chair and the keynote speaker to give plenary presentations in many international conferences. He has won many scientific researching and teaching awards. Many of his postgraduates have also won the national scholarships and the top-level school scholarships. 

As the Principal Investigator, he has undertaken many scientific projects, such as “the National Nature Science Foundation of China”, “Specialized Research Fund for the Doctoral Program of Higher Education”, “the Program for Excellent Talents in University”, “the Provincial Natural Science Foundation”, “the Shenghua Scholar Program of Central South University”, and “the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities”, etc. The flexible piezoresistive sensor system he developed has solved the key difficult problem of the interlayer pressure measurement between the curved surfaces with small space in the modern industry equipment.