演讲人Speaker：Zhugen Yang 教授

邀请人：陈华英

题目Title: Low-cost and Rapid Sensors for Water and Health

时间Date：2024年12月 31日       Time：下午 16:00 ~ 17:00

地点Venue： L 栋 428 室  

内容摘要Abstract：

Industrial systems on land, air and sea contain safety-critical assemblies, such as engines, fuel tanks and pipelines, requiring periodic inspection to detect issues early, before expensive and unscheduled repairs and/or removal of these systems from service. However, inspection and repair of confined equipment require access to the spaces where complex components and parts are crammed. Therefore, the nature of these confined environments makes the in-situ inspection and repair operations inside such workspaces extremely difficult. As a popular research field, snake and soft robots have been developed for several decades, especially for minimally invasive surgery. Recently, a few academic research results have been successfully turned into commercial products. This presentation will present the research and recent advancements of snake and soft robots for completely new applications, which are used for the “healthcare” service of industrial systems. A brief review of the evolution of snake and soft robots will be presented first, followed by the research and challenges of several applications of these robotic systems in the industry, including aerospace, nuclear and oil and gas.

个人简介(About the speaker):

Zhugen Yang is a Professor of Biosensing and Environmental Health at Cranfield University in the UK, leading the Advanced Sensors Laboratory since 2019. He started his independent research group at the University of Glasgow in 2018, subsequently moved to Cranfield and was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2022 and Professor in 2023. He completed a postdoc at the University of Cambridge and Bath after receiving his PhD from the University of Lyon in France. He has received three prestigious Fellowships/awards for different career stages, including the Leverhulme Research Leadership Awards (2023-8), the UKRI NERC Independent Research Fellowship (2018-21) and the EU Marie Curie Fellow (2013-5).He has published over 90 referred articles (including Nature Water, and Nature Communications) and received national and international awards, including a recent James J Morgan ACS ES&T Early Career Award-Honourable Mention.