Introduce myself

I am currently leading Human Centred Robotics Research in the School of Computer Science & Electronic Engineering at University of Essex.

I joined the University of Essex Dept. of Computer Science  as a Senior Lecturer in 1998 and promoted to Reader in 2001 and then Professor in 2002. Previously, I was a lecturer in the Department of Cybernetics University of Reading for 1 year, and a senior researcher in the Robotics Research Group Dept. of Engineering Science, Oxford University  for 9 years to develop advanced mobile robots for manufacturing applications. In Oxford, I designed and built a number of autonomous mobile robots, smart sensors and actuators, intelligent controllers, some of which can be seen from my robot gallery. I was a visiting scholar in the Departments of Electrical & Electronics and Mechanical Engineering, the University of Birmingham between May 1987 and September 1988. Before I came England in 1987, I was a lecturer in the Department of Control Engineering, the Central South University, Changsha, China from 1982, where I am now a Guest Professor. I am also a Guest Professor in Shanghai University, Chongqing University of Post & Telecommunications, Southwest University, Xiamen University, Kunming University of Science and Technology, Fujian University of Technology, and Northeast Normal University in China.

I have published over 300 papers in refereed journals, books, and conference proceedings in the areas of Autonomous mobile robots, Mechatronics, Embedded systems, Biologically inspired robotics, Human-machine interaction, Bio-signal processing, pervasive computing, distributed computer architectures, smart sensors, data fusion,  learning algorithms (GA, NN, FL) in robotics, evolutionary robotics, sensor networks, as well as networked devices, systems and robots.

I am a Fellow of IET (the Institution of Engineering and Technology), a Fellow of InstMC (Institute of Measurement & Control), a senior member of IEEE (The Institute of Electric and Electronic Engineers) and ACM (Association for Computing Machinery), and a Chartered Engineer. I am a founding member of IEEE Society of Robotics and Automation Technical Committee on: Networked Robots. I am currently an Editor-in-Chief for International Journal of Automation and Computing, and Executive Editor for International Journal of Mechatronics & Automation.

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Last updated on 15/5/2010.