Control System

Chun-Liang Lin was born in Tainan, Taiwan, R.O.C. in 1958. He received the Ph.D. degree in aeronautical and astronautical engineering from the National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan in 1991. He was an Associate Professor and Professor with the Department of Automatic Control Engineering, Feng Chia University, Taichung, Taiwan, from 1995 to 2003. He is currently a Chair Professor with the Department of Electrical Engineering, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan. His research interests include guidance and control, intelligent control, network control and systems biology. Dr. Lin received Distinguished Research Award three times from the National Science Council of Taiwan in 2000, 2003, and 2010, respectively. He also received the Academic Award from Ministry of Education of Taiwan in 2014.

Professor
National Cheng Kung University
Taiwan

Prof Virk is Professor of Robotics at University of Gävle, Gävle and KTH, Stockholm, Sweden. Prior to moving to Sweden in March 2011, he was at Massey University, Wellington, New Zealand and before that at University of Leeds, UK. He is a technical expert in control theory and its applications with particular experience in service robotics and the use of advanced model-based control to a variety of applications. His current interests are in physical assistant exoskeletons for elderly persons (medical and non-medical applications), olfactory navigation for mobile robots, CLAWAR robots as well as integration of ICT into the built environment. He has extensive experience of project management and leading international R&D and standardisation projects. He has held several grants from national and European sources (total value of over 18 M€), as well as industry. He has produced over 300 papers in these areas and 11 books, 16 PhDs successfully completed and he is currently supervising 3 PhD students. Prof Virk is a leading actor in robot standardisation; he Convenor of three international robot standardisation work groups, namely: • ISO TC184/SC2/WG7 Personal care robot safety, and • IEC TC62/SC62A & ISO TC184/SC2/ JWG9 Medical electrical equipment and systems using robotic technology (medical robots) • ISO TC184/SC2/WG10 Modularity for service robots which are developing the important standards for the new emerging robots. He is also Director of the euRobotics’ Topic Group in Standardisation for Europe’s Horizon 2020 programme and Chairman of UK’s National committee on Robot standardisation. He is Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (FIET) and Fellow of the Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers (FCIBSE) and a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (FIMA); he is a Chartered Engineer and a Chartered Mathematician. He is Chairman and Trustee of the UK charity CLAWAR whose mission is “the advancement of education and science for the public benefit in the field of robotics and associated technologies” (see www.clawar.org). He has been awarded, the Freedom of the City of London for his work in promoting Information Technology.

Professor
University of Gävle
Sweden

Prof. Dr. Hung-Yuan Chung (S’85-M’89-SM’11/FIET’11) was born in Taiwan, Republic of China. He received the Ph. D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the National Cheng Kung University (NCKU), Tainan, Taiwan, R. O. C., in 1987. In 1977, he was affiliated with the Chung Shang Institute of Science and Technology as a research assistant. During 1984-1987, he was a lecturer at the mechanical engineering of the NCKU. In August 1987, he joined the Department of Electrical Engineering at the National Central University (NCU). Since August 1992, he has been a professor. In addition, he is a registered professional Engineer in R. O. C. He is a permanent member of the Chinese Institute of Electrical Engineering (CIEE) and the Chinese Institute of Engineering (CIE), respectively. He received the research outstanding awards of the NCU five times in 2014, 2009, 2008, 2007, and 2005 years, respectively. He also received the outstanding Electrical Engineering Professor award and Electrical Engineer award of Kaoshiung branch of the CIEE in 2009 and 2003, respectively. In October of 2010, he was recognized by elevation to Distinguished Professor of the National Central University. In May 2011, he was elected a Fellow of the IET (U.K.).His research and teaching interests include Systems Theory and Control, Adaptive Control, Fuzzy Control, Neural Network Applications, Bio-informatics and Bio-control Applications. He has authored or co-authored over 280+ technical publications in refereed journals and conference proceedings.

• Communication network via fuzzy and neurocomputing •Wireless/green network via fuzzy and Neurocomputing •Control applications using fuzzy logic and neural network •Energy/ biomedical applications via fuzzy and neural network fuzzy •Power saving via neural network and fuzzy

John Billingsley graduated in mathematics and in electrical engineering from Cambridge University in 1960. After four years working in industry on autopilot design, he returned to Cambridge and gained a PhD in control theory. He led research in Cambridge University developing early 'mechatronic' systems including a laser phototypesetting system and the 'acoustic telescope'. He moved to Portsmouth Polytechnic in 1976, founding the Robotics Research Group. The results of the Walking Robot unit led to the foundation of Portech Ltd, which for many years supplied robotic systems to the nuclear industry. In April 1992 he took up a Chair of Engineering at the University of Southern Queensland in Toowoomba. His primary concern is Mechatronics and he supervises Technology Research in the National Centre for Engineering in Agriculture (NCEA). Three prototypes of novel wall-climbing robots were completed at USQ. A substantial NCEA project concerned the guidance of a tractor by machine vision for very accurate following of rows of crop. Other projects have included systems for discriminating between animal species for controlling access to water, precision counting and location of macadamia nuts for varietal trials and applications for assessing produce quality. He is the international chairman of an annual conference series on “Mechatronics and Machine Vision in Practice,” now in its twentieth year. He promoted and presented Micromouse robot maze contests around the world from 1980 to the mid nineties. He was awarded an Erskine Fellowship by the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. In December 2006 he received an achievement medal from the Institution of Engineering and Technology, London. His machines have been exhibited in the 'Palais de la Decouverte' in Paris, in the 'Exploratorium' at San Francisco and in the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London. Several of his robots are now on show in the Powerhouse Museum, Sydney.

Professor
University of Southern Queensland
Australia

Prof. Patrick Siarry was born on May 28, 1952, in Pertuis. His research area is relatively (since 1982) new “metaheuristic” optimization such as simulated annealing, which are indicated for the so-called problems of “hard optimization” because of their ability to avoid in principle, trapping in sub-optimal solutions. This topic is multidisciplinary in nature, both by the source of the methods studied (physics, biology, ethology). Much of his work is explicitly one or the other keywords – in particular, modeling, identification, learning rule bases (artificial intelligence), control, nondestructive testing and maintaining the biological and medical engineering.

Professor
Université Paris-Est Créteil Val-de-Marne
France

Prof. Dr. Chong Kok-Keong received B.Sc. (Hons) first class degree majoring in Physics from University of Malaya in 1998 and Ph.D. (Optical Engineering) degree from Universiti Teknologi Malaysia in 2002. He is Professor in Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman teaching the subjects of Research Methods in Science & Engineering for Master and Ph.D. programmes, Renewable Energy and Optoelectronic. Besides he is also holding a post as Head of Programmes for Master of Engineering Science and Ph.D. in engineering. For research achievement, he has been working in the field of solar energy for about 15 years and his research interest including Concentrating Solar Power, High Concentrator Photovoltaic System, Solar Cell Technology, Photovoltaic System, Non-Imaging Focusing Technology and Solar Thermal System. To date, he has published more than 51 journal and conference papers with h-index = 10 (scopus) & total citations of 360 as well as three patents were filed in Malaysia, China and US.

Professor
Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman
Malaysia