Zhijun Li received the Ph.D. degree in mechatronics, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, P. R. China, in 2002. From 2003 to 2005, he was a postdoctoral fellow in Department of Mechanical Engineering and Intelligent systems, The University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo, Japan. From 2005 to 2006, he was a research fellow in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore, and Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Since 2017, he is a Professor in Department of Automation, University of Science and Technology of China,. From 2016, he has been the Co-Chairs of Technical Committee on Biomechatronics and Bio-robotics Systems (B2S), IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics Society, and Technical Committee on Neuro-Robotics Systems, IEEE Robotics and Automation Society. He is serving as an Editor-at-large of Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems, and Associate Editors of several IEEE Transactions. He has been the General Chair and Program Chair of 2016 and 2017 IEEE Conference on Advanced Robotics and Mechatronics, respectively. Dr. Li’s current research interests include service robotics, teleoperation systems, nonlinear control, neural network optimization, etc.

Talk # 1

Development of Key Technology for Wearable Robots and Its Applications

Recently, as the aged population is increasing, many kinds of wearable robot have attracted much attention. In this talk, we present kinds of wearable robots to achieve many activities of daily living
(ADL). The developed service robots include upper limb exoskeleton, lower limb exoskeleton, intelligent robotic wheelchairs, wheeled inverted transportation, and interactive tour guide operation robot, and neural prosthesis, bionic hands, etc. The various advanced control approaches including skill transfer technique, intelligent control, bio-feedback control have been proposed and verified in these developed platforms.

Talk # 2

Human Cooperative Exoskeleton

The development of robotic systems capable of sharing with humans the load of heavy tasks has been one of the primary objectives in robotics research. At present, in order to fulfill such an objective, a strong interest in the robotics community is collected by the so-called wearable robots, a class of robotics systems that are worn and directly controlled by the human operator. Wearable robots, together with powered orthoses that exploit robotic components and control strategies, can represent an immediate resource also for allowing humans to restore manipulation and/or walking functionalities. The talk deals with wearable robotics systems capable of providing different levels of functional and/or operational augmentation to the human beings for specific functions or tasks. Prostheses, powered orthoses, and exoskeletons are described for upper limb, lower limb, and whole body structures.