报告人：盛卫华 博士（美国）

时间：2015.1.5(周一)下午15:30
地点：健A105

报告题目：Title: Human-centered Robotics and its Applications

Abstract:

As robots are getting closer to humans, one important issue that has attracted muchattention recently is howto develop co-robots that can live or work with humans in the same environment. It is highly desired that robots have a capability tointeract with humans in a natural, human-like way, which calls for a human-centered approach to developing co-robots. On the other hand, the rapid progresses in sensors, wireless communication and computing technologies have made human-centered computing possible. In this talk, Dr. Sheng will present his recent research in human-centered robotics.His talk will discuss the use of state-of-the-art wearable sensors, environmental sensors and computers, along with machine learning algorithms to understand human motion, activities, gestures and intentions, which can help develop better human-robot coexistence.

报告人简介：

Weihua Sheng is currently an associate professor at the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Oklahoma State University (OSU), USA. He is the Director of the Laboratory for Advanced Sensing, Computation and Control (ASCC Lab, http://ascc.okstate.edu) at OSU.  Dr. Sheng received his Ph.D degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Michigan State University in May 2002. He obtained his M.S and B.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Zhejiang University, China in 1997 and 1994, respectively. During 2002-2006, he taught in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Kettering University (formerly General Motor Institute). He was promoted to associate professor there before he joined Oklahoma State University.  He is the author of more than 140 papers in major journals and international conferences. Seven of them have won best paper or best student paper awards in major international conferences. His current research interests include mobile robotics, wearable computing, human robot interaction andintelligent transportation systems. His research has been supported by US National Science Foundation (NSF), Department of Defense (DoD), Oklahoma Transportation Center (OTC) /Department of Transportation (DoT), National Natural Science Foundation of China, etc. Dr. Sheng is a senior member of IEEE and served as an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering.