Conference Schedule


 
Monday 9th September


6:30-9:00pm
Welcome Reception and Pre-registration
Chiang-Mai Orchid Hotel



 
Tuesday 10th September 
9:30-10:00am 
Opening Ceremony
10:00am-10:30am
Plenary Session 1
Mechatronics and engineering research in Thailand
Dr. Djitt Laowattana
Institute of Field Robotics
King Mongkut's University of Technology, Thonburi, Thailand
10:30am-10.50 am 
Morning Tea/Coffee
10.50am-12:30pm
TuA1: Industrial Applications I 

10.50am:   Active Control of Internal Turning Operations Using a Boring Bar; Linus Pettersson; Sweden

11.15am: Fabric Defect Classification using Wavelet Frames and Minimum Classification Error Training; Grantham Pang;  Hong Kong

11.40am: Multi sensor fusion in a flexible workcell environment; Devendra P. Garg; USA

12.05pm: Automatic foundry brake disc inspection through different computer vision techniques, using a new 3D calibration method; Pedro Martín Lerones; Spain

10.50am-12:30pm
TuA2: Agriculture and Food I

10.50am: A Prototype Mechatronic System for Inspection of Date Fruits; Abdulrahman A. Al-janobi; Saudi Arabia

11.15am: Autonomous Agricultural Robot; Mark Pythian; Australia

11.40am: Visual counting of macadamia nuts; John Billingsley; Australia

12.05pm: Machine vision application to grading of white pepper berries; Mani Maran Ratnam; Malaysia

 

12:30pm-1.45pm
Lunch
Thai buffet
1.45pm-3.00pm
TuP1: Manufacturing Mechatronics Design I

1.45pm: The resolving of tasks of dynamics for control of the single-planimetric multimobile manipulator; Korgan Sholanov; Kazakhstan

2.10pm: Design and Control of A Parallel Robot Based on The Design For Control Approach; Cheryl Qing Li; Singapore

2.35pm: Development of Fibre Optical Switch Assembly Alignment Machine; Nitin V. Afzulpurkar, Thailand

1.45pm-3.00pm
TuP2: Vision I

1.45pm: Self-Calibration of An Active Vision System for 3D Robot Vision; Y. F. Li; Hong Kong

2.10pm: Silicon Retina Sensing guided by Omni-directional Vision; Vlatko Becanovic; Germany

2.35pm: Imaging through moving scattering media comparison between averaging and "or minimum" methods; E. Juliastuti Mustafa; Indonesia
 

3:00pm-3.20pm 
Afternoon Tea/Coffee
3.20pm-5.00pm
TuP3: Industrial applications II 

3.20pm: Force-guided Compliant Motion in Robotic Assembly: Notch-locked Assembly Task; Kong Suh Chin; Malaysia

3.45pm: Tool calibration of a robot by force and torque sensing; Nitin V. Afzulpurkar, Thailand

4.10pm: Mechatronic Strategies for automation of the ConformTM Extrusion Process; K. Khawaja; UK

4.35pm: The New Method for Thickness Measurement of Calendered Rubber Based on Non-Contact Laser Sensors and Geometrical Surface Characterization; Petar B. Petrovic; Yugoslavia
 

3.20pm-5.00pm
TuP4: Design of mechatronic systems

3.20pm: Development of a NOVEL multi-module manipulator system: dynamic model and prototype design; Clarence W. de Silva; Canada

3.45pm: Prediction of parameters to avoid vehicle roll over using artificial neural networks; V Karri; New Zealand

4.10pm: Intelligent Control of a Novel manipulator with Slewing and Deployable Links; V. J. Modi; Canada

4.35pm: Imitation Model of Mechatronical Modulus of Motion; Korgan Sholanov;  Kazakhstan

 

6.30pm-9.30pm
    Khun-Toke Dinner (Thai northern style+performance) at Old Chiang Mai
Culture Centre



 
Wednesday 11th September
9.30am-10.15am
Plenary Session II
The future of Mechatronics
John Billingsley
University of Southern Queensland, Australia
10.15am-10:35am 
Morning Tea/Coffee
10.35am-12.15pm
WeA1: Mobile Robotics II

10.35am: A new Beacon Navigation System; Eduardo Zalama; Spain

11.00am: Space and Time Sensor Fusion and Multi-Sensor Integration for Indoor Mobile Robot Navigation; Tae-Seok, Jin; Korea

11.25am: Model Based Automation for Tracked Ground Vehicles with Onboard Manipulators; Yahya H. Zweiri;  UK

11.50am:  Navigation and localisation devices and the concept for mobile robots;  Carsten Hillenbrand; Germany
 
 
 
 

10.35am-12.15pm
WeA2: Medical and telerobotic applications

10.35am: A Novel Mechatronic System for Minimally Invasive Lumpectomy of the Breast Tissue; Sunita Chauhan; Singapore

11.00am: Multi-purpose Autonomous Robust Carrier for Hospitals (MARCH): Principles, Design, and Implementation; P Sooraksa; Thailand

11.25am: Gesture recognition for commanding robots with the aid of mechatronic data-glove and hidden Markov model; K. P. Liu; Hong Kong

11.50am: Modelling semantics and development of a generic user-interactive client-server module for efficient two-way data communication between multiple devices in a wide-area network; Debanik Roy; India

12:15pm-1:30pm 
Lunch
Chinese Buffet
1:30pm-3.10pm
WeP1: Human Interaction

1.30pm: Development of Chinese Calligraphy Robot; Fenghui Yao; Japan

1.55pm: Automated People Counting Using Model Template Matching and Head Search; Grantham Pang; Hong Kong

2.20pm: Automatic Facial Expression Recognition for Human-Robot Interaction; A.Z. Kouzani; Australia

2.45pm: Development of an expressive social robot; Salvador Dominguez; Spain

1:30pm-3.10pm
WeP2: Mobile robotics I

1.30pm: Communication with an underwater ROV using ultrasonic transmission; T M Law; Hong Kong

1.55pm: Reactive Agent Architecture for Underwater Robotics Vehicles; J.H. Ho; Singapore

2.20pm: A Study on the Control of AUV’s Homing and Docking; Kyu-Hyun Oh; Korea

2.45pm: Autonomous Mobile Robot with Flexible Locomotive Mechanism; Maki K. Habib; Malaysia
 

3.10pm-3.30pm
Afternoon Tea/Coffee
3.30pm-5.10pm
WeP3: Manipulator and actuator design

3.30pm: Design of A Gravity Compensation System for A Flexible Structure Mounted Manipulator; Theeraphong Wongratanaphisan; Thailand

3.55pm: Design of a Sliding mode Model Following Control (SMFC) for DC Servomotor Drivers; Phongsak Phakamach; Thailand

4.20pm: On-line Evolution of Robot Arm Control Programs Using a Memorised Function; Worasait Suwannik; Thailand

4.45pm: Force passivity in fixturing and grasping; Michael Yu Wang; Hong Kong
 

3.30pm-5.10pm
WeP4: Mechatronics Education

3.30pm: Massey Mechatronics - Designing Intelligent Machines; W.L. Xu;  New Zealand

3.55pm: An Educational Tutorial for an Autonomous Omni-Directional Six-Legged Beetle Robot; Frank Nickols; Singapore

4.20pm: Modern mechatronic curriculum for multidisciplinary engineering; Tim Gale; New Zealand

4.45pm: ROCON – A Virtual Construction Kit, Visualization Tool
and Remote Control System for Mechatronic Devices; Joerg Kaiser; Germany 

6:30pm-9.30pm
Conference Banquet at Amari Rincome Hotel



 
Thursday 12th September
9.30am-10.15am
Plenary Session III
Underwater robotics research at CityU Hong Kong
Robin Bradbeer
City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
10:15am-10.35am 
Morning Tea/Coffee
10.35am-12.40pm
ThA1: Agriculture and Food II/Sensors

10.35am: Real Time Inspection of Beans Using a Line Scan Camera; Taeho Kim; Korea 

11.00am: Control of the sugar cane harvester topper; Stuart McCarthy; Australia

11.25am: Mechatronics and robotisation in agriculture; Maki K Habib; Malaysia 

11.50pm: An efficient distributive tactile sensor for recognising contacting objects; P.Tongpadungrod; Thailand

12.15pm: CAD Based Automatic Surface Scanning Using Optical Range Sensors; Fernando A. Rodrigues Martins; Portugal

10.35am-12.40pm
ThA2: Vision II

10.35am: Measuring Flank Tool Wear on Cutting Tools with Machine Vision - A Case Solution; Alexandre Orth;  Brazil

11.00am: A Floating Point Genetic Algorithm for Affine Invariant Matching of Object Shapes; Peter Tsang, Hong Kong

11.25am: Using a Panoramic Camera for 3D Head Tracking in an AR Environment; B.Giesler; Germany

11.50am: A Mechatronics Approach for Automatic Removal of  Contaminants from Wool; A. Dehghani; UK

12.15pm: A visual sensor to measure the position and orientation of 
the climbing robot on the glass surface; Jian Zhu; Hong Kong

12.40pm-2.00pm
Lunch
Western-style Buffet
2.00pm-3.40pm
ThA3: Special Invited Session
MEMS 

2.00pm: Automated Micro-Assembly of MOEMS by Centrifugal Force; King W. C. Lai; Hong Kong

2.20pm: Haptic Tactile Feedback in Teleoperation of Multifingered Robot Hand; Yantao Shen; Hong Kong

2.40pm: On-line Model Learning for Robotic Manipulations; Yu Sun; USA

3.00pm: A Better Data Transmission Protocol for Internet-based Teleoperation; Peter X. Liu; Canada

3.20pm: A PVDF-based micro-Newton force sesning system for automated micro-manipulation; Carmen K M Fung, Hong Kong

3.40pm-4.00pm 
Afternoon Tea/Coffee
 4.00pm-4.30pm
Closing Session
6.30pm-9.30pm
Lake Side Dinner at Galae