Assistive Robotics
Due to the ageing problem and manpower shortage, robots are, or soon will be, used in such critical domains as search and rescue, hospital care, mine and bomb detection, scientific exploration, and law enforcement. Such robots must coordinate their behaviors with the requirements and expectations of human team members. In addition, they must integrate and process sensor readings to perform the desired tasks, autonomously. However, the real deployment of autonomous robots in everyday life environments is still a challenge due to the unpredictable changes in the environment, the robustness of the performance, and time required to learn new tasks. The topics of interest include but are not limited:
1. Path planning
2. Rehabilitation robotics
3. Application of Deep learning in Assistive robotics
4. Assistive humanoid robots