IEEE - Dayton Section Computer Society Meeting
Robotics - Software and Hardware Challenges at the UD
Motoman Robotics Laboratory
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Robotics - Software and Hardware Challenges at the UD Motoman
Robotics Laboratory
Dr. Raul Ordonez Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer
Engineering, Director of the Motoman Robotics Lab and the Nonlinear
Controls Lab, University of Dayton
Wednesday, October 22, 2014 (note change to Wednesday instead of
Tuesday this month!!
11:30-12:30 PM
InfoSciTex, 4027 Colonel Glenn Hwy, Suite 210, Dayton, OH 45431-1672
Just West of intersection with National Rd/Grange Hall Rd, in Signal Hill
TechneCenter (building 4027 is the left-most of the 3 buildings)
A tour of the Motoman Robotics Lab will be offered to those
interested at a different time.
DaytonComputerSociety@gmail.com or Dave Perez (937)904-5486. Pizza
and water provided for recommended donation of $3/person – RSVP
(name, email, phone, IEEE member? Computer Society member? pizza?)
required. Meeting open to all.
The Motoman Robotics Lab (MRL) was established in 2008 at the
University of Dayton. It was kick started by a donation from Yaskawa
Motoman Inc. of six state-of-the-art industrial robotic manipulators,
including a 7 DOF and a 15 DOF robot. Since then, other companies and
further donations have brought the total value of this lab to more than
$1.2M. The research conducted includes the study and design of hyperredundant robots (also known as “snake-bots,” this type of robot poses
significant hardware and software challenges, among which solving its
inverse kinematics in real-time and performing nonlinear torque control
will be addressed), robot calibration (where an algorithm that combines
different types of optimization methods is shown to match or outperform
the state-of-the-art commercial system), and robot-human interaction
(where teleoperation and the software challenges of achieving smooth
real-time operation will be discussed). This talk will provide an overview of
the research being carried out at the UD MRL, including relevant
algorithmic and computational aspects of the various research efforts.
Raul Ordonez received his M.S. and Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the
Ohio State University in 1996 and 1999, respectively. He spent two years
as an assistant professor in the department of electrical and computer
engineering at Rowan University, and then joined the ECE department at
the University of Dayton, where he has been since 2001 and is now a full
professor. He has worked with the IEEE Control Systems Society as a
member of the Conference Editorial Board of the IEEE Control Systems
Society since 1999; Publicity Chair for the 2001 International Symposium
on Intelligent Control; member of the Program Committee and Program
Chair for the 2001 Conference on Decision and Control; Publications Chair
for the 2008 IEEE Multi-conference on Systems and Control. Dr. Ordonez is
also serving since 2006 as Associate Editor for the international control
journal Automatica. He is a coauthor of the textbook Stable Adaptive
Control and Estimation for Nonlinear Systems: Neural and Fuzzy
Approximator Techniques, (Wiley, 2002); he is also co-author of the
research monograph Extremum Seeking Control and Applications - A
Numerical Optimization Based Approach, (Springer, 2011). He worked
between 2001 and 2007 in the research team of the Collaborative Center
for Control Science (CCCS), funded by AFRL, AFOSR and DAGSI at the Ohio
State University. Dr. Ordóñez received a Boeing Welliver faculty fellowship
in 2008, and an AFRL Summer Faculty Fellowship in 2014.