Research

1. Main Research Topics

1. Visual Servoing

• Active visual servo control employing multi-cameras

• Autonomous visual servoing with tele-supervision

• High performance visually-guided motion control

2. Intelligent Transportation System (ITS)

• Preceding vehicle following system

• Autonomous vehicle driving system

• Obstacle detection and warning system

3. Robotics

• Precise pose control of manipulators using stereo vision

• Intelligent control of robots using uncalibrated cameras

• Hybrid vision and force control of robotic manipulators

4. Intelligent Home Supervision System

• Face tracking and identification system

• Intelligent remote surveillance system

• Intelligent security system

5. Systems Theory and Control

• Adaptive control systems

• Supervisory control systems

• PC-based real-time control of dynamical systems

2. Research Equipment

1.Six axis robotic arm

• Manufacturer/Model:

Mitsubishi/RV-1a

• Specifications:
  Degree of freedom: 6 DOF
  Maximum speed: 2200 mm/s
  Arm length: 250+160mm
  Honeywell force sensor
  ATI/Gamma 6-axis force sensor
  

2.Mobile robots

• Manufacturer/Model:

Dr. Robot x80

• Specifications:
  Sensor: PTZ camera
  Load: 10 kg
  Battery life span: over 3 hours
  Communication: Wireless LAN 802.11g
  

3.Visual sensing devices

• Manufacturer/Model:

Dynacolor/D7722B-K
Sony/MTC-807HB-p.36
AVT/Guppy F-080C
PointGrey/Bumblebee2

4.Video capture system

• Manufacturer/Model:

ADLINK/RTV-24
ACTi/ACD-2000Q

• Specifications:
  Channels: 4
  Image frame rate: 30 FPS
  Network: RJ-45/Ethernet (10/100 Base-T)
  

5.Medical servo-driven table

• Manufacturer/Model:

HIWIN/LAS3-1-1-100-24GE

• Specifications:
  Degree of freedom: 5-DOF
  Optical sensor

3. University-Industry Cooperative Research

1.Industrial automated assembly

2.Medical precision positioning