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Plenary Sessions
“HOW CONTROL THEORIES WERE USED TO IMPROVE ENEREGY AND
SAFETY OF AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS”
MONDAY, OCTOBER 1
8:30AM – 9:30AM
INTERNATIONAL BALLROOM NORTH (LOWER LEVEL 1)
Session Chair: Anna Stefanopoulou, University of Michigan
Huei Peng,
University of Michigan
Abstract: Tomorrow’s vehicles will be more electrified, connected,
automated, and shared compared with vehicles today. Modeling and
control will continue to play a key role in making these vehicles safer, more settings. In such circumstances where the human and the robot work in
efficient, and less polluting. In this talk, I will present my personal
experience in applying advanced modeling and control techniques to
several automotive applications, to improve their safety and energy
consumption. The talk will end with future trend and remaining challenges.
Biography: Huei Peng received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from
the University of California, Berkeley in 1992. He is now a Professor at the
Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Michigan. His
research interests include adaptive control and optimal control, with
emphasis on their applications to vehicular and transportation systems.
His current research focuses include design and control of electrified
vehicles, and connected/automated vehicles. In the last 10 years, he was
involved in the design of several military and civilian concept vehicles,
including FTTS, FMTV, Eaton/Fedex, and Super-HUMMWV—for both
electric and hydraulic hybrid concepts. He served as the US Director of
the DOE sponsored Clean Energy Research Center—Clean Vehicle
Consortium, which supports more than 30 research projects related to the
development of clean vehicles in the US and in China. He currently serves
as the Director of Mcity, which studies connected and autonomous vehicle
technologies and promotes their deployment. He has served as the PI or
co-PI of more than 50 research projects, with a total funding of more than
50 million dollars. He has more than 250 technical publications, including
110 in referred journals and transactions and four books. His h-index is 69
according to the Google scholar analysis. The total number of citations to
his work is more than 18,000. He believes in setting high expectation and
helping students to exceed it by selecting innovative research topics with
real impact. One of his proudest achievements is that more than half of his
Ph.D. students have each published at least one paper cited more than
100 times. Huei Peng has been an active member of the Society of
Automotive Engineers (SAE) and the American Society of Mechanical
Engineers (ASME). He is both an SAE fellow and an ASME Fellow. He is a
ChangJiang Scholar at the Tsinghua University of China.
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“TOWARDS ROBOTS THAT TEACH AND LEARN THROUGH PHYSICAL
HUMAN-ROBOT INTERACTION”
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 2
8:30AM – 9:30AM
INTERNATIONAL BALLROOM NORTH (LOWER LEVEL 1)
Session Chair: George Zhu, Michigan State University
Marcia O’Malley,
Rice University
Abstract: Robots are increasingly transitioning from factories to human
environments: today we use robots in healthcare, households, and social
close proximity---physical interactions are almost inevitable. In the past,
these physical interactions have typically been treated as a disturbance,
which should be avoided or rejected. But physical interaction offers an
opportunity for the human and robot to implicitly communicate; when the
robot guides the human, or the human corrects the robot, the human and
robot are leveraging physical interactions to inform each other about
some aspect of the current task. This talk will explore how robots can both
teach and learn from humans through physical interaction.
Biography: Marcia O’Malley is the Stanley C. Moore Professor of
Mechanical Engineering, of Computer Science, and of Electrical and
Computer Engineering at Rice University. She received the Bachelor of
Science degree in mechanical engineering from Purdue University, and
her MS and PhD in mechanical engineering from Vanderbilt University.
She currently serves as Special Advisor to the Provost on Educational and
Research Initiatives in Collaborative Health. She is also the Director of
Rehabilitation Engineering at TIRR-Memorial Hermann Hospital. Her
research addresses issues that arise when humans physically interact with
robotic systems, with a focus on training and rehabilitation in virtual
environments. She has twice received the George R. Brown Award for
Superior Teaching at Rice University. She is a Fellow of the American
Society of Mechanical Engineers, and serves as an associate editor for the
IEEE Transactions on Robotics and as a senior associate editor for the
ACM Transactions on Human Robot Interaction.