时间：2025年7月14日下午15：00

地点：D533学术报告厅

报告及报告人简介：

A Sample of Multi/Inter-Disciplinary Research: Soft Robotics for Prosthetic Devices

Professor Gursel ALICI^{1, 2}

¹Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences

¹School of Mechanical, Materials, Mechatronic and Biomedical Engineering

²Applied Mechatronics and Biomedical Engineering Research (AMBER) Group

University of Wollongong, 2522 NSW, Australia

Email: gursel@uow.edu.au

Soft robotics offers unprecedented solutions for applications involving safe interaction with humans and objects, and manipulating and grasping fragile objects, crops, and similar agricultural products. Progress in soft robotics will have a significant impact especially on medical applications such as wearable robots, prosthetic devices, assistive devices, and rehabilitation devices.

In this talk, we will describe what characteristics differentiate the field of soft robotics from the conventional hard robotics, and answer the question of where we are in soft robotics combined with progress in machine learning to establish physically assistive robotic devices (e.g. prosthetic hands) with user-acceptable features that will bring them one-step closer to their natural counterparts. The primary feature of such a prosthetic hand is to interpret and receive the hand user’s intention noninvasively, and equally importantly send sensory feedback about the state of a prosthetic hand to its user noninvasively to help “restore normality” for prosthetic hand users. We will also present the progress we have made in the research theme of soft robotics for prosthetic devices, exemplified with the establishment of a fully 3D printed transradial prosthetic hand, https://electromaterials.edu.au/2020/10/29/aces-technology-showcase-the-soft-robotic-hand/. We aim to establish an effectual bridge between robotics, upper-limb prosthetic devices, bionics and materials research to deliver the expected outcomes of soft robotics for prosthetic and rehabilitation devices in a timely manner.

Biography

Gursel Alici (Senior Member, IEEE) received the Ph.D. degree in robotics from the Department of Engineering Science, Oxford University, Oxford, U.K., in 1994.

    He is currently a Senior Professor with the University of Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW, Australia, where he holds the position of the Executive Dean of the Faculty of Engineering Information Sciences, and director of Applied Mechatronics and Biomedical Engineering Research (AMBER) Group. His research interests include soft robotics, system dynamics and control, robotic drug delivery systems, novel actuation concepts for biomechatronic applications, robotic mechanisms and manipulation systems, soft and smart actuators and sensors, wearable human-machine interface (HMI) systems, and medical robotics. He has generated more than 400-refereed publications and delivered numerous invited seminars and keynote/plenary talks on his areas of research.

    Dr. Alici was a Senior Editor and Technical Editor for the IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics during 2020–2024 and 2008–2012, respectively. From 2007 to 2017, he was a Member of the Mechatronics National Panel formed by the Institution of Engineers, Australia. He has served on the international program committee of numerous IEEE/ASME International Conferences on Robotics and Mechatronics. He was the General Chair of the 2013 IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics held in Wollongong, Australia. He was the recipient of the Outstanding Contributions to Teaching and Learning Award in 2010, the Vice-Chancellor’s Interdisciplinary Research Excellence Award in 2013, and Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Research Supervision in 2018 from the University of Wollongong. He was a Visiting Professor with Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne (2007, 2010), City University of Hong Kong (2014), University of Science and Technology of China (2015), and University of British Columbia, Canada (2019).