报 告 人：张丹(Dan Zhang)

报告名称：Innovation Design and Applications of Robotic Manipulators in Intelligent Manufacturing System

报告时间：2023年5月4日下午16:00

报告地点：机电工程学院B110报告厅

报告人简介：

Dr. Dan Zhang is a Kaneff Professor and Tier 1 York Research Chair in Advanced Robotics and Mechatronics in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at York University. Dr. Zhang was a Canada Research Chair in Advanced Robotics and Automation, was a founding Chair of the Department of Automotive, Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering with the Faculty of Engineering & Applied Science at Ontario Tech University. He received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Laval University, Canada, in June 2000. Dr. Zhang's research interests include: synthesis and optimization of parallel and hybrid mechanisms; generalized parallel mechanisms research; reconfigurable robots; micro/nano manipulation and mems devices (e.g., sensors); rescue robots; smart biomedical instruments (e.g., exoskeleton robots and rehabilitation robotics); AI/robotics/autonomous systems; Aerial and Underwater Robotics and Artificial Intelligence for Robotics.Dr. Zhang has published 244 journal papers and 187 conference papers, 12 books, 9 book chapters and numerous other technical publications. Dr. Zhang has served as a General Chair for 67 International Conferences and delivered 117 keynote speeches. Dr. Zhang is listed as the World’s Top Two Percent Researchers by Stanford’s Standardized Citation Indicators in 2020 and 2021.Dr. Zhang is a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering (CAE), a Fellow of the Engineering Institute of Canada (EIC), a Fellow of American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), and a Fellow of Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering (CSME), a Senior Member of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), and a Senior Member of SME.

报告内容简介：Due to the potential high rigidity, high accuracy, and high loading capacities of parallel manipulators, research and development of various parallel mechanism applications in engineering are now being performed more and more actively in every industrial field, and it is considered a key technology of robot applications in industry in the future. However, the parallel manipulators haven’t widely been adopted by industry due to the limitations of their existing performance capabilities, including (1) the small orientation workspaces; (2) the singular configurations in kinematic chains; (3) the change of the overall stiffness.

In this presentation, the rational of using parallel robots for parallel robotic machines will be discussed and explained. A comparative study will be carried out on some successful parallel robotic machines and conventional machine tools. The research activities on parallel manipulator and its innovative design in the Laboratory of Advanced Robotics and Mechatronics at York University will be introduced, they are: Innovation Design for Parallel Robots; Performance Improvement of Parallel Robots by Structure Construction; Reconfigurable Robotic Systems; and the applications of parallel manipulators.

The new design methodologies and technologies for next-generation high performance Generalized Parallel Manipulators (GPMs) will be introduced. These new GPMs will effectively overcome the limitations of conventional parallel manipulators and be used for manufacturing applications including high precision assembly, fast product handling, milling and surface finishing as well as applications in other industries. This will enable technology transfer of these techniques to industry applications by focusing on the critical technology gaps and rigorous experiments.