Advanced Robotics Lab (ARL) - arl.mae.cuhk.edu.hk

HEV Power Management Structure

Fri, 07 Dec 2007 10:06:22 +0800

HEV Power Management Structure

The HEV powertrain consists of such subsystem as engine, generator, motor, battery, etc and each subsystem has its own control system. With this increasing complexity of powertrain and the need of achieving multiple objectives, a two-level hierarchical control architecture is used.

Intelligent Battery Management System

Thu, 06 Dec 2007 22:29:17 +0800

Intelligent Battery Management System

Battery management system (BMS) can not only prolong battery life-circle and assure battery functions by inspecting and estimating battery state-of-charge (SOC), state-of-function (SOF) and state-of-health (SOH), but also protect drivers and passengers from electric shock in accidents.

Palm-size Humanoid Robot

Thu, 06 Dec 2007 20:02:11 +0800

Palm-size Humanoid Robot

Our goal in this project is to develop a mini-humanoid robot with a capability for transformation, 3-D motions planning with balance control, and effective real-time hand sign recognition system.

Omni-directional Vehicle

Thu, 06 Dec 2007 19:45:46 +0800

Omni-directional Vehicle

The omni-directional kart, named “OK-1”, is a hybrid electric vehicle with technology of omni-directional steering, which is designed and developed in the Advance Robotics Lab. It is omni-directional, because it can make crab-like parallel translation and tornado-like rotation. Hence, parking becomes an easy manipulation for even a freshman of driving.

Robot group dancing

Wed, 28 Nov 2007 12:13:12 +0800

Tracking robot

Wed, 28 Nov 2007 10:30:05 +0800

Single wheel robot

Tue, 06 Nov 2007 16:16:55 +0800

Omnidirectional vehicle

Tue, 06 Nov 2007 16:03:08 +0800

Crowd Modeling

Mon, 05 Nov 2007 09:20:37 +0800

Crowd Modeling

Surveillance of a crowd of pedestrians in public places like squares and subway stations is a challenging issue to public security. The crisis might lurk in the motion of crowd. To deal with the above-mentioned problem, we establish a modeling approach called “crowd modeling” and have built up a series of surveillance systems for testing.

Chief Executive of HKSAR visited our HEV Center (Nov, 2006)

Wed, 15 Nov 2006 13:58:44 +0800

From Left:
The Hon. Donald Tsang, Chief Executive of HKSAR
Prof. Lawrence J. Lau, Vice-Chancellor of CUHK
Prof. Yangsheng Xu, Director of Advanced Robotics Lab, CUHK
Prof. Yeung Yam, Chairman of Department of MAE, CUHK

Lab members (Sept. 2006)

Sun, 24 Sep 2006 16:25:46 +0800

Intelligent Electronics for Safty

Wed, 13 Sep 2006 13:12:41 +0800

Intelligent Electronics for Safty

Tracking Robot

Mon, 11 Sep 2006 13:22:20 +0800

Tracking Robot

We have developed a human-following wheeled mobile robot, which has the human tracking function, based on a sensory system to get the position of the target person in real-time. This mobile robot platform can be used for many applications. One potential application is the transportation of baggage in airports.

Single Wheel Robot

Mon, 11 Sep 2006 13:12:00 +0800

Single Wheel Robot

We have developed a novel concept of mobile robot called Gyrover which is a single-wheel, gyroscopically stabilized robot, based on the principle of gyroscopic precession, as exhibited in stability of a rolling wheel.

Space Robotics

Mon, 11 Sep 2006 12:57:44 +0800

Space Robotics

We have been developing some fundamental technologies for space robotics for many years and have made contributions in design, control, dynamics, modeling and real-time implementation of various space robotics systems.