RESEARCH

Safe Intelligent Robot Research Center

The Safe Intelligent Robot Research Center (SIRRC) focuses on safe, reliable, and explainable intelligent robot techniques to improve the safety, reliability, and human-robot mutual trust when robots are working in dynamic, time-varying, and unstructured environments.

The center covers cutting-edge and hot research areas of robotics, including bioinspired robotics, soft robotics, artificial intelligence, autonomous control, and information sensing. Through the cross-integration of multi-disciplinary cutting-edge technologies, breakthroughs will be made in the scientific problems of the integration of human, robot and environment, such as complex environment interaction, human-robot mutual trust mechanism, multi-agent control and system integration, and intelligent algorithm safety verification and other theories and technologies, establishing a safe and intelligent robot technology integration platform for advanced scientific research such as human-robot integration and autonomous intelligent systems.

The center aims to achieve a series of original breakthrough and achievements in the actuation, perception, control, human-robot mutual trust, safety verification and other aspects of safe intelligent robots, leading the development of safe intelligent robot technology and systems, and providing theoretical and technical support and reserves to the strategic emerging industries of robots and key areas of national safe intelligent robots.

Research Capabilities

Bionic, soft robot design, manufacture and control

  • Intelligent material-structural soft robot design, manufacture and control

  • Underwater bionic multi-agent cooperative control

  • Design and manufacture of wearable flexible exoskeleton system

Design, manufacture and control of medical robots

  • Magnetic position tracking and actuation of flexible/capsule medical robots

  • Medical robot positioning, navigation and control

  • Composite drive in the complex environment of the micro-nano robot

Intelligent robot perception and decision-making

  • Robot manufacturing system monitoring, diagnosis and control

  • Intelligent flexible assembly of robots with multi-sensor fusion

  • Flexible electronic multi-sensing fusion technology

Reliable, safe and explainable AI algorithm development

  • High performance computing

  • Formal verification of intelligent algorithms

  • Explainable neural network algorithm development

Research Facilities

Three-dimensional Helmholtz magnetic coil
Virtual ultrasound device
Flexible gliding robot fish
Robotic assembly system
Intelligent Algorithm Simulation and Verification Software Platform
High Performance Server Hardware Platform
Precision Swimming Intelligent Body Molding System (customized)
Bionic Dexterous Hand System
All-terrain quadruped robot system

Signature Research Projects and Accomplishments

Guangzhou Development Zone Innovation and Entrepreneurship Leadership Talent Program 'Intelligent Robot Grinding Based on Vision Technology'.

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National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) 'Research on Autonomous Biodegradable Agricultural Sensors for Soil Nitrate Nitrogen Detection with High Spatial and Temporal Resolution'.

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National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) Youth Program 'Soft Magnet-Based Six Degree of Freedom Position Tracking System for Flexible Medical Robots'.

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National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) Youth Program 'Dynamics Modeling and Design Methods of Soft Actuators Based on Energy Storage-Release Strategy'.

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Guangdong Basic and Applied Basic Research Fund Program 'Interpretable Fault Diagnosis and Formal Verification of Intelligent Equipment Driven by Manufacturing Big Data'.

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