Teleoperation and Aerial Manipulation using Quadrotors（セミナー・シンポジウム）

March 1 (Friday), IS Lecture Room I-3&4, 14:00-15:30
 
Teleoperation and Aerial Manipulation using Quadrotors.

Not being grounded like most other conventional robotic systems (e.g., wheeled robots), quadrotor robots are promising to truly expand the current robots' capability to 3D environments.  Some applications include: aerial surveillance/reconnaissance, remote movie shooting, search/rescue, evaluation/repair of infrastructure, and operation on high-rise buildings, to name just few.  In such applications, quadrotors are typically required to operate in unknown, uncertain and unstructured environments, for which their fully-autonomous control is often infeasible and some form of their teleoperation is desirable if not absolutely necessary.  On the other hand, for quadrotors to be a truly useful robotic platform, they should not only be able to "fly" but also to perform "manipulation" while interacting with external environments.
 
In this talk, I will present some recent results in my lab relevant to these challenges: 1) semi-autonomous teleoperation of multiple distributed quadrotors with unreliable communication; 2) vision-based teleoperation of a team of quadrotor and ground mobile robots; and 3) aerial manipulation control using a tool attached on the quadrotor.  Some other research activities in my lab will also be introduced if time permits.
 
 
Dongjun Lee received the B.S. degree in mechanical engineering from Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Taejon, Korea, in 1995, the M.S. degree in automation and design from KAIST, Seoul, Korea, in 1997, and the Ph.D. degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Minnesota at Twin Cities, in 2004.
 
Since 2011, he has been an Assistant Professor with the School of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering at the Seoul National University (SNU).  Prior to joining SNU, he was an Assistant Professor with the Department of Mechanical, Aerospace and Biomedical Engineering at the University of Tennessee - Knoxville from 2006 to 2011, a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the Coordinated Science Laboratory at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign from 2004 to 2006, and an Engine Development Engineer at Kia Motors Corporation, Korea, from 1997 to 1999.  His main research interests are dynamics and control of robotic and mechatronic systems with particular emphasis on teleoperation/haptics, multirobot systems, aerial/mobile robotic systems, and automotive systems control.
 
Dr. Lee is a recipient of US NSF CAREER Award in 2009, Best Paper Award from IAS 2012, Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship of the University of Minnesota 2002-2003, and is currently serving as an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Robotics.
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Assistant Professor                    School of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering
Seoul National University            301 Engineering Bldg., Room #1517
(phone) +82-2-880-1724            Gwanak-ro 599, Gwanak-gu,
(fax) +82-2-883-1513                 Seoul, Republic of Korea, 151-744
(email) djlee@snu.ac.kr             (web) http://inrol.snu.ac.kr
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