SSE Weekly Colloquium | 理工学院系列研讨会邀请

The School of Science and Engineering is committed to creating a platform for students and faculty members to exchange ideas and explore cutting-edge research developments in various fields of science and engineering. Starting from 2021 fall, SSE will organize the "Weekly Colloquium" series of seminars every Friday. Each week, SSE will invite our faculty members and distinguished guest speakers from outside the University to conduct academic seminars.  

All students and faculty members are invited to join the weekly colloquium!

About the Colloquium

The speaker on September 22 is Prof. Jian ZHU of SSE. The following is detailed information about the colloquium.

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Topic

Soft Actuators and Soft Robots

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Time

10:30 - 11:30, September 22 (Friday)

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Venue

Room 119, University Library

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Speaker

Prof. Jian ZHU

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Abstract

Robots have been proposed to relieve humans from dangerous environments or tedious manufacturing processes or mimic humans or animals in appearance, behavior, and/or cognition to conduct service jobs. Most of the traditional robots use hard materials. Inspired by natural creatures, researchers recently have become more and more interested in soft robots, which are made of soft materials, such as polymers.

To exploit animal-like locomotion and behavior, it is essential to develop muscle-like actuators with properties close to biological systems. We recently have employed dielectric elastomers - one class of soft active materials - as artificial muscles. A dielectric elastomer actuator can deform in response to voltage and can exhibit unique attributes, including large voltage-induced deformation, fast response, low weight, quiet operation, etc.

In this seminar, I will discuss several soft bio-inspired robots that are developed based on dielectric elastomer actuators, such as a frog-inspired robot, an inchworm-like robot, artificial muscles for humanoid facial expressions, etc. I will also introduce our preliminary progress on modeling and control of soft actuators and soft robots.

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The Speaker

Dr. Jian ZHU is currently an associate professor at the School of Science and Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen. Before that, he worked as an assistant professor at the National University of Singapore. He received a Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Alberta, Canada in 2008, and then worked as a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University. His current research focuses on Soft Intelligent Robots, Bio-inspired Robots, and Smart Materials and Structures. Dr. Jian ZHU is an associate editor of IEEE Robotics Automation Letters, a guest editor of IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, and a committee member of the SPIE EAPAD (Electroactive Polymer Actuators and Devices) conference. Dr. Jian ZHU was a 2021 Global Top 2% Scientist (by Stanford, based on Elsevier data). His work on soft actuators was awarded “2021 High Impact Papers” by Science China - Technological Sciences.

School Profile

School of Science and Engineering is located in Shenzhen, a core city of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area. Adhering to the rich CUHK's academic tradition with high emphasis on humanity elements, the School is committed to nurturing innovative technology leaders embracing China and the world with global visions and social responsibility.

As one of the founding schools of the University, SSE has so far offered 7 Undergraduate Programmes: Mathematics and Applied Mathematics, Chemistry, Electrical and Computer Engineering, New Energy Science and Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering, Physics, Financial Engineering. 3 Taught Postgraduate Programmes: Communication Engineering, Artificial Intelligence and Robotics，Supply Chain and Logistics Management. 7 Research Postgraduate Programmes/PhD programmes: Computer and Information Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering, Energy Science and Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry (Approval Pending), Biomedical Engineering. Following the lofty educational philosophy and sound academic system of CUHK, SSE and its extraordinary faculty from all over the world have produced a succession of outstanding graduates. Even under the complex international situation of the global pandemic, SSE graduates still secured a high employment rate.

This series of seminars is open to all students and faculty members, and no pre-registration is required. Let's learn about the beauty of science and engineering together!

Interactive Multimedia Lab

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