Keynote Speeches

In this paper, an optimum design of an injection molding pantograph mechanism is discussed. This mechanism will be used to the miniature surface mount system in one room factory. First, a reduction of force acting at hinge caused by the movement of the mechanism is discussed. And the injection molding pantograph mechanism is synthesized based on the result of a numeric calculation of the algorithm. Moreover, the force acting at hinge of this mechanism is analyzed, and the algorithm that reduces force acting at hinge by changing the shape and dimension of links considering the influence of the movement of the mechanism is proposed. In addition, the shape and dimension of links to which force acting at hinge of this mechanism is reduced from the result of a numeric calculation of this algorithm is designed

I was graduated at the Tokyo Institute of Technology in 1976. I am a professor of Tokyo Institute of Technology(Precision and Intelligent Laboratory). My research fields are Kinematics of Machinery, Robotics, and Design and Manufacturing Methodologies of Micro Motion Systems (Micromachines, MEMS/MOEMS). In 1994, Visiting Researcher of Karlsruhe University[Karlsruhe Institute of Technology(KIT) South; Germany] and Stanford University(USA). In 1996, Visiting Researcher of IMT(Institute of Microstructure Technique) of FZK(Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe; KIT North), and TUM(Technical University of Munich)(Germany). In 2004, Division Head of Mechanical Design and Tribology(MD&T) in the Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers (JSME), In 2005, Director of the Japan Society for Precision Engineering (JSPE), In 2007, Editor of Journal of Advanced Mechanical Design, Systems, and Manufacturing in JSME, In 2007, Director of the Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers (JSME), In 2002, IFToMM-DIPLOMA, Awarded to Professor Mikio HORIE on the occasion of 30th Permanent Commission anniversary. In 2002, Best Paper Award, The 6th. International Conference on Mechatronics Technology 2002. In 2003, FELLOW of the Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers; JSME FELLOW ). In 2003, Meritorious Deed Awards, Machine Design and Tribology Division, JSME(The Japan Society of Mechnical Engineers). In 2004, Best Organizer Award, Japan Society for Precision Engineering(JSPE), In 2005, FUNAI Award for Excellent Researcher, The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers(JSME). In 2008, Awards for contribution, 10th International Conference on Electric Materials and Packaging (EMAP), In 2009, Meritorious Deed Awards for JSPE(Japan Society of Precision Engineering) 75 th Anniversary of Foundation.

With ever increased needs for an improved product quality, production efficiency, and cost in today¡¦s globalized world market, advanced process control should not only realize the accuracy of each control loops, but also has the ability to achieve an optimization control of production indices that are closely related to the improved product quality, enhanced production efficiency and reduced consumption. As a result, the optimal control of complex industrial process has attracted an increased attention of various process industries.
This talk firstly introduces the research stare-of-art and existing problems for optimal operation of industrial processes, and then presents the meanings for optimal operation control. In view of the characteristics of complex industrial processes, a hybrid intelligent control method for optimal operation is proposed, which is composed of a control loop pre-setting model, a feed-forward and feedback compensators, a production index prediction model, and a fault working-condition diagnosis unit plus a fault-tolerant control model.
When production condition and working condition changes, this method can adjust the set points of control loops adaptively so that production index can be controlled in its target range. An application case study of this method in the roasting process of a shaft furnace for the ore concentration industry is also presented. Shaft furnace is a facility which is used widely in the ore concentration industry to turn the weak-magnetic low-grade hematite ore into strong-magnetic one. The target of optimal operation control for the roasting process of shaft furnace is to control the production indices, namely the magnetic tube recovery ratio (MTRR) that represents the quality, the efficiency, and the consumption of the product processing, close to its target value within limited ranges, and to make it as high as possible. The proposed optimal operation control method in this paper has been applied to the roasting process undertaken by 22 shaft furnace in Jiugang Ore Concentration plant of China. It has been shown that the MTRR is controlled to the rational range around the target value, with a result of 2% increase; the equipment¡¦s operation ratio is enhanced by 2.98%, resulting in a raise of 0.57% in concentrated grade and 2% in metal recovery rate.
Such an industrial application has successfully demonstrated the performance of the proposed optimal control method which will therefore has a high potential for further and much wider applications.

Tianyou Chai received the Ph.D. degree in control theory and engineering from Northeastern University, Shenyang, China, in 1985.
He has been with the Research Center of Automation, Northeastern University since 1985, where he became a Professor in 1988 and a Chair Professor in 2004. He is the founder and Director of the Center of Automation, which became a National Engineering and Technology Research Center in 1997.
He has made a number of important contributions in control technologies and applications. He has published two monographs¡A84 peer reviewed international journal papers and around 219 international conference papers. He has been invited to deliver more than 20 plenary speeches in international conferences of IFAC and IEEE.
His current research interests include adaptive control, intelligent decoupling control, integrated plant control and system, and the development of control technologies with applications to various industrial processes. Prof. Chai is a member of Chinese Academy of Engineering, an academician of International Eurasian Academy of Sciences, IEEE Fellow and IFAC Fellow. He is a distinguished visiting fellow of The Royal Academy of Engineering (UK) and an invitation fellow of Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS).
For his contributions, he has won three prestigious awards of National Science and Technology Progress, the 2002 Technological Science Progress Award from Ho Leung Ho Lee Foundation, the 2007 Industry Award for Excellence in Transitional Control Research from IEEE Control Systems Society and the 2010 Yang Jia-Chi Science and Technology Award from Chinese Association of Automation.

The complex tasks in the modern manufacturing workshops are various, real-time, precise and cooperative, which require rigorous demands for the precise positioning, smooth dynamics, and effective manipulation of industrial robots. This report emphasizes on the layout design and manipulative performance simulation of industrial robots for the complex workshop tasks, and discusses the following technical problems:
(1) Robotic path planning of the constraint motion process based on feature mapping. The approach of feature mapping from workpiece design features to welding process features and to robotic motion features is proposed. The feature mapping from design domain to manufacturing domain is performed based on rule reasoning, and the path planning of the constraint motion process is implemented based on feature mapping.
(2) Manipulative performance analysis of robots with clearances based on dynamic response spectrums. An improved detachment criterion of motion pairs is proposed. The joint forces are expressed as functions of the motion parameters of robotic active joints. By taking the time span of each trajectory segment as the design parameter, the dynamic response spectrums of joint forces are obtained, which can be used to facilitate the selection of the adjustable design parameters so as to avoid the detachment between joint elements, and hence the manipulative performance of robots with clearances is improved.
(3) Robotic layout design based on the coordinate optimization of the task topology and the robotic base position. In order to shorten the robotic work cycle time, the feasible space of the robotic base is split into many discrete spatial grids, and the ant colony algorithm is adopted to optimize the task topology sequence for each grid. In the grids with the same task topology sequence, the pattern search algorithm is applied to find the optimum position and orientation of the robotic base. This approach solves the robotic layout problem that couples the task topology and the base position together.
(4) Engineering applications. Several engineering applications for the layout design and manipulative performance simulation of industrial robots are given.

Prof. Jianrong Tan is an academician of Chinese Academy of Engineering and a professor of Zhejiang University. He obtained his master¡¦s degree from Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China and his Ph.D. from Zhejiang University, China, respectively. He is currently the dean of Department of Mechanical Engineering at Zhejiang University and a vice director of State Key Laboratory of CAD&CG, China.
His research interests mainly include Mechanical Design Theory, Digital Design and Manufacture, Robotics, and Virtual Reality. He received the support of National Outstanding Young Scientists Foundation of NSFC in 1995 and has completed 25 important research projects, published 142 academic papers and 8 research monographs. He Won 2 items of second prizes of National Award for Science and Technology Progress of China in 2004 and 2006, respectively.

Video analysis is a vital technology widely applied in fields including surveillance, industrial automation, object recognition, entertainment and so on. As the mature hardware and software developments of video capture, processing and featuring, lots of various typical applications are in development. In this keynote, a paradigm shift of video analysis to novel healthcare services is presented. As known, the aging of population is a worldwide problem in countries. According to the statistics of WHO, the 65+ population will grow to 19% in 2030. In contrast, the healthcare resource will not increase as fast as the population aging. How to develop new technologies benefits the quality and functionality of healthcare services is a significant issue worth to be explored.

Pau-Choo (Julia) Chung received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from National Cheng Kung University (NCKU), Taiwan, in 1981 and 1983, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Texas Tech University, USA, in 1991. She then joined the Department of Electrical Engineering, National Cheng Kung University (NCKU), Taiwan, and has become a full professor since 1996. She served as the Vice Director, and then the Director, of the Center for Research of E-life Digital Technology, NCKU during 2001-2008. She was also the Director of Electrical Laboratory, NCKU in 2005-2008. She was selected as Distinguished Professor of NCKU. Currently she is the Director of Institute of Computer and Communication Engineering, NCKU, Taiwan.
Dr. Chung¡¦s research interests include image/signal analysis and pattern recognition, computational intelligence, and telemedicine. Particularly she applies most of her research results on medical and healthcare applications. She received many awards, such as the annual best paper award in Chinese Journal Radiology 2001, the best paper awards from World Multiconference on Systemics, Cybernetics, and Informatics (SCI) 2001 and International Computer Symposium (ICS) 1998, Acer¡¦s Best Research Award in 1994 and 1995, the best paper awards from the Conference of Computer Vision, Graphics, and Image Processing (CVGIP), in 1993, 1996, 1997, 1999, and 2001, Best Research Young Innovator Award of National Science Council, Taiwan, in 1999. Dr. Chung has served as the program committee member in many international conferences. She is the chair of the IEEE Life Science Systems and Applications Technical Committee (2008 and 2009) of CASS, and the vice chair of Neural Network TC of CIS. Currently she is also serving as the Associate Editor of Journal of Information Science and Engineering, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, and Multidimensional Systems and Signal Processing. She served as the Guest Editor of IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems-I, a Member on IEEE International Steering Committee, IEEE Asian Pacific Conference on Circuits and Systems. She was the Chair of IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, Tainan Chapter (2005-2006), and the Secretary General of Biomedical Engineering Society of the Republic of China (2005-2006). She was an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer of CASS (2006-2007). She is currently a member in BoG (Board of Governor) of IEEE CAS Society (2007-2009, 2010-2012) and an ADCOM administrative committee member in IEEE CIS Society (2009-2011).
She is a member of Phi Tau Phi honor society and an IEEE Fellow.

To realize future communications interactively with a high sense-of-presence, it is important to recall that we humans are active creatures, moving through the environment to acquire accurate spatial information. For instance, in terms of spatial hearing, humans usually make slight head and body movements unconsciously, even when trying to keep still while listening.
Actually, such movement is known to be effective for improving the precision of auditory spatial recognition. We designate this style of listening as active listening. Therefore, it is particularly important that sound systems to sense and synthesize sound fields be responsive to a listener's movement. In this presentation, I first introduce our auditory display, which is responsive to a listener's movement based on binaural reproduction architecture.
Secondly, I introduce a high-definition auditory display based on high-order Ambisonics (HOA) architecture with the fifth order: the highest order realized to date. This system is implemented with a surrounding loudspeaker array of 157 loudspeakers. Finally I introduce our high-definition small spherical microphone arrays, which sense 3D sound information comprehensively and suitably for auditory displays that are responsive to a listener's movement.

SUZUKI, Yoiti is Professor, Acoustic Information Systems Laboratory in Human Information Systems Division, Research Institute of Electrical Communication, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan. His standpoint is that human beings are regarded as the extreme source and recipient of information in any communication systems. With this standpoint, he has been devoting into developing advanced acoustic communication systems based on good knowledge of human auditory system as well as multimodal perception relating to hearing.