11310E500100 College of Engineering Seminar

TOPIC
▸　VR-Assisted Digital Twin-Enabled Robot Collaborative System

Abstract
❝　The COVID-19 pandemic has heightened the need for remote medical services, allowing healthcare providers to reach patients without requiring in-person visits, thus reducing the risk of exposure to infectious diseases. Robots have become essential agents in delivering these services, enabling medical staff to provide timely assistance and patient care from remote locations, particularly in specialized environments like negative-pressure wards. This study focuses on intuitive control for daily dexterous operations through a virtual reality interface, which synchronizes hand gestures with robotic arm movements and offers semi-autonomous solutions for core and repetitive tasks.  Additionally, the system includes a free-viewpoint platform that enables the observation of complex operations from a first-person perspective. The system’s usability was validated through a comprehensive user study involving a large number of participants in both local and global settings. The results indicate that even operators without prior experience in robotics or telerobotic systems were able to perform virtual reality robot teleoperation tasks satisfactorily using our system.　❞

SPEAKER
▸　Prof. Ching-I HUANG
▸　Department of Power Mechanical Engineering, National Tsing Hua University

Short Bio
❝　Dr. Ching-I Huang received B.S. and M.S. degrees in the Department of Power Mechanical Engineering from National Tsing Hua University in Taiwan. She received her Ph.D. in Electrical and Control Engineering from National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University in 2024. Her research interests lie on robot-learning methodologies and virtual reality technologies aimed at enhancing human-robot cooperation. She actively participated in prestigious international competitions, such as the DARPA Subterranean (SubT) Challenge in 2020 and the RobotX Maritime Challenge in 2022.　❞

TIME
▸　2024/09/10 (TUE) 13:20 ~ 15:10

VENUE
▸　Classroom 212, Chemical Engineering Building