报告内容摘要：

The sense of touch plays an irreplaceable role when a robot physically interacts with its environment. Our lab has been working on providing the sense of touch for robots, especially for soft and flexible robots system, during the physical interactions with the real-world objects. The sense of touch is used to enhance the understanding of the objects and to enable faster, safer, more efficient robot-object interaction control.  This talk introduces our research on how to obtain sense of touch for a deformable finger and how obtained information is used to enables a robot to gently and efficiently handle objects and to enhance the accuracy of object recognition after the object has been grasped in-hand, a situation where visual feedback is often occluded. In addition, this talk introduces the development of acardiac catheter robot with the semi-autonomous navigation control and contact force estimation based on shape tracking. The initial results show that robot can improve the current catheter ablation procedure in terms of both reducing the procedure time and increasing the ablation accuracy, with cost-effective design features.

报告人简介：

Hongbin Liu is currently a lecturer (Assistant Professor) in the Centre for Robotics Research, Department of Informatics, King’s College London, UK, where he is leading the Robotic Contact Perception Lab. He received his B.S. degree in 2005 from the Northwestern Polytechnique University, Xi’an, China, and received MSc in 2006 and PhD degree in robotics in 2010 both from Kings College London, UK. He is a member of IEEE and Technical Committee Member for IEEE EMBS BioRobotics. Hisresearch is focusing on enriching the robot's perception of during medical interventions, and making use of the augmented perception to enable quicker, safer, procedure. Applications of his research include soft tissue palpation during minimally invasive surgery, interventional cardiology and endoscopy.
 
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