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ID: NEWS2019-No.8

Time: September 25, 2019

Place: Harbin, China

Event: Three experts Khmelev, Barsukov, and Golykh from the Center of ultrasonic technologies, Ltd. Altay State Technical University, Russia, visited Research Center for Aerospace Mechanism and Control from September 25th to 28th, 2019. The experts were warmly received by Professor Zongquan Deng, who is an Academician of China Academy of Engineering, and Professor Hong Liu, who is a Vice-President of Harbin Institute of Technology. Dr. Qiquan Quan and Professor Dewei Tang led Russian experts to visit our laboratory and introduced the significant achievements in the field of moon, Mars and deep space exploration. The Ultrasonic Drilling Research Group of Aerospace Mechanism Testing laboratory and the Russian experts summarized the cooperation results of the ultrasonic drill research and conducted practical tests. In addition, both sides conducted in-depth discussions and reached consensus on the future cooperation in the field of ultrasonic drilling. Russian experts sincerely invite our researchers to go to Biysk for academic exchange in 2020.

ID: NEWS2019-No.7

Time: August 19, 2019

Place: Harbin, China

Event: AMT laboratory obtained two research funds from National Natural Science Foundation of China in August 2019. The first one is a Key Program titled “Research on Design Theory and Control Technology for Mars Rotorcraft” (Grant No. 51935005), which is in the charge of Prof. Dewei Tang. The second one is a General Program titled “Research on Actuating Mechanism of an Ultrasonic Driller Driven by Dual Energy Flows for Asteroid Anchoring” (Grant No. 51975139), which is in the charge of Dr. Qiquan Quan. In 2019, our university Harbin Institute of Technology only obtained a total of five Key Programs from National Natural Science Foundation of China. Obtaining the funding of the Key Program indicates that the preliminary research of Mars rotorcraft has been highly recognized by domestic counterparts. Thus, this success can greatly enhance the influence of our team. These two funds provide adequate funding for our research on Mars rotorcraft and asteroid anchoring and sampling.

ID: NEWS2019-No.6

Time: August 19, 2019

Place: Harbin, China

Event: Invited by Prof. Zongquan Deng, Prof. Shugen Ma from Ritsumeikan University paid a visit to Research Center for Aerospace Mechanism and Control in August 16 to 19, 2019. Prof. Shugen Ma gave us an academic lecture on “Design and control of environment-adaptive robots” in the afternoon of August 19, which is presided over by Prof. Dewei Tang. The faculty members attending this report include Prof. Dewei Tang, Prof. Jianguo Tao, Prof. Yingxiang Liu, A/Prof. Qiquan Quan and A/Prof. Gangfeng Liu. Prof. Shugen Ma will serve the IROS 2022 as the general chair. IROS is an influential international conference in robotics research field and IROS 2022 will be held in Kyoto, Japan. Professor Ma invited the professors and graduate students to attend the international conference in 2022.

Biography of Prof. Shugen Ma:

Prof. Shugen Ma received his Ph.D. degrees in Mechanical Engineering Science from Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo, Japan) in 1991. From 1991 to 1992 he was a Research Engineer with Komatsu Ltd and from 1992 to 1993 he was a Visiting Scholar at the University of California, Riverside (USA). He joined the Department of Systems Engineering, Ibaraki University, Japan, as an Assistant Professor in July 1993. In October 2005, he moved to Ritsumeikan University, where he is currently a professor in the Department of Robotics. He was awarded by the “Hundred Talent Program” of the Chinese Academy of Sciences for 2001 and the national “Thousand Talents Plan” in 2014. He also stayed in Johns Hopkins University (USA) as a Visiting Professor in 2014. His current research interests include the design and control of environment-adaptive robots, field robotics, and Bio-robotics. He has published over 400 papers in refereed professional journal and international conference proceedings with around 4500 citations. He has also developed more than 30 novel robot systems, filed 60 patents, and supervised 38 doctoral students to graduation. He is a fellow of the IEEE, a fellow of the JSME, and a member of the SICE and the Robotics Society of Japan. He was an associate Editor of the IEEE Transaction on Robotics from December 2003 to November 2007, an Editor of Advanced Robotics from April 2007, and serves many societies and conferences.

ID: NEWS2019-No.5

Time: July 06, 2019

Place: Harbin, China

Event: Yinchao Wang, Deen Bai, Shuitian Chen, Guoqing Wang, Jiongfeng Hu and Zheng Yang, the undergraduates of Aerospace Mechanism Testing Laboratory (AMT), worked hard and managed to pass their thesis defenses. Yinchao Wang finished his  thesis titled “Research on rotary percussive ultrasonic drill driven by single piezoelectric stack” and will join Shenyang Aerospace University, Deen Bai finished his thesis titled “Research on rotary percussive ultrasonic drill with bidirectional drive and its performance” and will join Wuxi Pilot Intelligent Equipment Co., Ltd., Shuitian Chen finished his thesis titled “Lift-drag characteristics and experimental study on rotorcraft for Mars exploration” and joined SZ DJI Technology Co.,Ltd., Guoqing Wang finished his thesis titled “Development of an anchoring device for asteroid probe based on ultrasonic drilling” and joined China University of Mining and Technology, Jiongfeng Hu finished his thesis titled “Gas-driven Asteroid Regolith Sampling Device Base on Disk-shaped Cutter” and joined HUAWEI Technologies Co., Ltd., and Zheng Yang finished his thesis titled “Design and experimental study of an ultrasonic/sonic driller using single crystal piezoelectric ceramics” and will join CSIC 701 in July 2019. On 6th July, AMT held a celebration party at Shangju Dumpling cafeteria for their graduation.

ID: NEWS2019-No.4

Time: June 5, 2019

Place: Harbin, China

Event: Aerospace Mechanism Testing laboratory (AMT) has moved into Technology Innovation Building (TIB) in the Science Park of Harbin Institute of Technology. Prof. Tang works in the K523 and A/Prof. Quan works in the 513-A, the other staff works in the K513-B, and the students in the K513-C and K523. The experiments are conducted in the K211 and K208. AMT hopes that a comfortable environment will enable everyone to do their job better.

ID: NEWS2019-No.3

Time: May 25, 2019

Place: Harbin, China

Event: Dr. Xiaodong Wu, who is holding a position of associate professor in Shanghai Jiao Tong University, paid a visit to AMT laboratory of Research Center for Aerospace Mechanism and Control at Harbin Institute of Technology, China and exchanged on the issue of scientific cooperation with Prof. Yingxiang Liu and Dr. Qiquan Quan. He gave a talk on “Intelligent Vehicle Control”, and the students of the AMT laboratory had a warm exchange with Dr. Wu.

ID: NEWS2019-No.2

Time: April 25, 2019

Place: Harbin, China

Event: On April 24, 2019, Dr. Qiquan Quan smoothly passed the doctoral supervisor defense organized by Harbin Institute of Technology and became a Ph.D. supervisor in the faculty of Manufacture Engineering of Aerospace Vehicle. This success may accelerate the development of the AMT team.

ID: NEWS2019-No.1

Time: March 1, 2019

Place: Harbin, China

Event: Invited by Prof. Shugen Ma, Dr. Quan will serve as an associate editor for the IROS 2019, which will be held in Macau, China. He will handle the manuscripts with the keywords such as Biologically-Inspired Robots, Compliant Joint/Mechanism, and Underactuated Robots.

The information about the conference is listed as follows, cited from the official website of the IROS 2019.

The 2019 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2019) will be held on November 3 – 8, 2019 in The Venetian Macao, Macau, China. IROS is one of the largest and most impacting robotics research conferences worldwide. It brings an international community of researchers, educators and practitioners to explore the frontier of science and technology in intelligent robots and systems, and discuss the latest advancements in this fast growing and exciting field.

With the theme of “Robots Connecting People”, the program of IROS 2019 will consist of technical sessions and multi-media presentations, as well as panel discussions, workshops, tutorials and exhibits to enhance technical communications among the attendees.

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More info: https://iros2019.org/

ID: NEWS2018-No.5

Time: December 30, 2018

Place: Harbin, China

Event: At one o’clock in the afternoon, Aerospace Mechanism Testing (AMT) laboratory held the 2018 year-end party on time. Firstly everyone reviewed and summed up his or her achievements in 2018, and talked about his or her plan of 2019. Then Prof. Dewei Tang summarized the achievements of the AMT laboratory in 2018 on behalf of Dr. Quan. Subsequently, the 2018 Photography Contest was held by secret ballot, and Mr. Hui Zhu won the best photo award and a bonus of ￥1000. The photo—Venice—will be set as a cover photo of the AMT laboratory homepage forever. AMT will hold the annual photography contest at every end of the year. Then Mr. Pengyue Zhao read AMT’s annual summary report of 2018. We have a fruitful and pleasant 2018. Finally, Prof. Dewei Tang prospected for AMT laboratory development in 2019. At night, all members of AMT laboratory gathered together in Shangju Dumpling cafeteria to greet the arrival of the new year 2019.

ID: NEWS2018-No.4

Time: September 4–11, 2018

Place: Oxford, UK

Event: The 7th International Meeting on Origami in Science, Mathematics and Education (7OSME) took place in Oxford, the United Kingdom between 5th and 7th September 2018. The meeting was held in conjunction with the Autumn Convention of the British Origami Society, who have just reached their 50-year anniversary this year. Prof. Deng, Dr. Quan, and Dr. Guo went to Oxford to attend this conference. Prof. Sergio Pellegrino from Caltech gave a very impressive keynote speech on ultralight deployable spacecraft.