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UIUC Prof. Naira Hovakimyan visited CSE

Invited by Dr. ZHANG Yu, Professor Naira Hovakimyan at the Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) visited the College of Control Science & Engineering (CSE), Zhejiang University (ZJU) . During her visit on May 3rd and 4th, Hovakimyan gave two featured seminars respectively on Aerial Co-robots of the Future: How Far We Are and L1 Adaptive Control and Its Transition to Practice. Dr. REN Qinyuan, Prof. CHEN Jian as well as dozens of CSE graduate students attended and had fruitful discussions with Hovakimyan on the history and control techniques of autopilot systems.After the seminars, Zhang's and Hovakimyan's teams had a meeting on the collaboration of ZJU-UIUC Institute research program. Zhang introduced CSE and ZJU and then presented the latest research work of his team. The team of Hovakimyan introduced their most recent work on the joint research program and their experimental platforms at UIUC. Both sides made plans on the joint program and desired to expand future cooperation.

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XU chosen to attend "China-America Frontiers of Engineering Symposium"

Chao Xu (许超), TRUTH Associate Professor of control science & engineering at Zhejiang University, was recently selected to attend the 2017 China-America Frontiers of Engineering (CAFOE) symposium held on June 22 - 24 in Shanghai. Sixty of the most promising engineers under the age of 45 from China and the United States met for an intensive 2-1/2 day symposium on developments at the cutting edge of engineering technology in four areas: Intelligent Transportation, Electrochemical Energy Storage, Synthetic Biology, and Robots Everywhere.Xu was invited to deliver a plenary talk during the CAFOE 2017 on Intelligent Robotic Locomotion: From Dynamic Walking to Autonomous Flight.The event is intended to facilitate international and cross-disciplinary research collaboration, promote the transfer of new techniques and approaches across disparate engineering fields, and encourage the creation of a transpacific network of world-class engineers. CAFOE is carried out in cooperation with the Chinese Academy of Engineering. About the Chinese Academy of Engineering The Academy is a national and independent organization composed of elected members with the highest honor in the community of engineering and technological sciences of the nation. Its missions are to initiate and conduct strategic studies, provide consultancy services for decision-making of nation’s key issues in engineering and technological sciences and promote the development of the undertaking of engineering and technological sciences in China and devote itself to the benefit and welfare of the society.About the NAE The National Academy of Engineering is a private, independent, nonprofit institution that provides engineering leadership in service to the nation. The mission of the Academy is to advance the well being of the nation by promoting a vibrant engineering profession and by marshaling the expertise and insights of eminent engineers to provide independent advice to the federal government on matters involving engineering and technology. The NAE is part of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.

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Phd Student Yongmin Zhang received IEEE PIMRC 2012 Best Paper Award

The 2011 IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (IEEE PIMRC 2012) was held in Sydney, Sept.9-12, 2012, which is sponsored by IEEE Communications Society. IEEE PIMRC is one of the premier conferences in the wireless research arena and has a long history of bringing together academia, industry and regulatory bodies. Today, it has become one of IEEE Communication Society's flagship conferences in telecommunications. CSE Ph.D student ZHANG Yongmin, supervised by Prof. CHEN Jiming and Prof. SUN Youxian, received the PIMRC 2012 Best Paper Award. The title of paper is Distributed Adaptive Sampling by Rechargeable Sensor Nodes with Limited Battery Capacity. IEEE PIMRC 2012 total received around 1200 submissions, and finally has 447 accepted paper, only 2 of them award best papers.

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The RoboCup Teams from the Control Science and Engineering (CSE) Department have taken home two trophies (small-size league, kid-size league) during this year’s China RoboCup Open!

The 2011 China RoboCup Open was just finished in Lanzhou, Gansu. During this year’s China biggest RoboCup competition, our teams from the CSE department won two trophies in the small-size league and the kid-size league. Our teams also won the second place in the family-size league, the third place in rescue league and several technique rewards and single-match champions. The China RoboCup Open is the most renowned competition in Robotics. It brings the top experts and researchers from various related fields such as electronic information, communication, mechanic engineering, human-machine interface, sensors and visions, etc. together to achieve one ultimate goal: to form a team of fully autonomous humanoid robot soccer players against human opponents. The Participants includes most famous teams from universities and institutes all over China. This year’s competition was held in Lanzhou, Aug. 23 �C Aug 25. The RoboCup team from our department was led by the associate professor, Dr. XIONG Rong from the Institute of Cyber-Systems and Control, and attended the small-size, kid-size, family-size and rescue leagues. During the matches in small-size league, our team “ZJUNlict” beat the two-time champions from the Dalian University of Technology with a score of 6:0; also an overwhelming victory of 7:0 in the final match versus the team from the China Agricultural University and won the champion. During the kid-size league, our competitors included some top teams from Tsinghua Univ., Dalian University of Technology, and Beijing Information Science and Technology University. The winning of the Team “ZJUDancer” made us the only team in the China RoboCup Open history that crowned in this league three-times straight. The family-size league competition more focused on the abilities of robots accomplishing various tasks under a family-simulated environment. The CSE team for this league, “ZJUPanda”, lost in the final match with a very close score to another team from the Shanghai Jiao Tong University and ended with a second place. They also won the seven’th place in an international compatition early, and was a first-time attendents for RoboCup Open, China. For the rescue league, the team “ZJUBase” was just assembled in June this year, right before this compitition. Despite all the disadvantages, by the end of this match, they still won the third place in this league, showing great potencials for a better place the next year.

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Invensys donates million-dollar worthy industrial control software to Zhejiang University

To support education of Zhejiang University, the world famous vendor of integrated automation system, Invensys Operations Management, donated million-dollar worthy industrial control software to Zhejiang University on July 20, 2011 in its headquarter in Beijing. The donated software includes the multi-user version of SimSci-Esscor, an industrial process simulation and optimization software. On behalf of Zhejiang University, the deputy dean of faculty of information technology of Zhejiang University, Prof. RONG Gang, attended the donation ceremony and accepted the donation from the vice president of Invensys, Mr. SONG Yingge. Prof. Rong showed sincere gratitude to Invensys Group for its support to Zhejiang University. This suite of software will be directly applied to the graduate and graduate teaching and laboratory research in control department of Zhejiang University.

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SUPCON Group Co, Ltd. made donation of 10.3 million RMB to Zhejiang University Education Foundation

On February 28, 2011, SUPCON Group Co., Ltd. donated 10.3 million RMB to Zhejiang University Education Foundation. The donation ceremony was held in Shao Yifu Science Hall of Yuquan Campus.On behalf of Zhejiang University, Chancellor ZHANG Xi showed sincere gratitude to SUPCON. SUPCON donated 10.3 million RMB to Zhejiang University Education Foundation to benefit teachers who suffer from financial difficulties due to illnesses. Fund will also be set up to support students to carry out scientific training and research in frontier technology. Chancellor ZHANG Xi showed that SUPCON has been sticking to the sense of responsibility and mission of feeding back society and alma mater. This donation is the best support to Zhejiang University in the beginning year of Twelfth ‘Five-Year Plan’ and the crucial period of the revolution and development of Zhejiang University. This donation displayed to the full SUPCON’s love and gratitude to Zhejiang University and explained vividly the core values of ‘Seek Truth and Be Creative’, which will encourage the teachers and students to serve the country and society. On behalf of SUPCON Group, President JIN Jianxiang donated 10.3 million RMB to Zhejiang University Education Foundation. Chancellor ZHANG Xi accepted this donation standing for Zhejiang University and presented a donation certificate and plaque to president JIN Jianxiang.In his speech, President JIN Jianxiang said that most managers and team of SUPCON are alumnus of Zhejiang University and alma mater has been supporting the development of SUPCON. As alumnus, they always keep deep affections for their alma mater. The purpose of this donation is to feed back alma mater and to carry forward the tradition of showing respect for teachers and attaching great importance of education. President Jin hopes that this donation can help Zhejiang University to become World-Class University as soon as possible.The delegate of students from Control Department showed sincere gratitude to SUPCON and determined to study hard and to feed back alma mater and society in the future.

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Colleagues from Simon Fraser University (SFU), Canada visited CSE Department

The director of the School of Engineering Science, SFU , Prof. Mehrdad Saif together with other two professors first visited the control engineering lab and the robotic lab here at CSE, and were impressed by the academic accomplishments developed in those laboratories, especially the robot soccer teams and the robot “Haibao” for the 2010 world Expo Shanghai.After the brief tour of the laboratories, the SFU colleagues had a joint meeting with the department administrations and faculties. During the meeting, the possibilities of two parties having in-depth collaborations in both graduate and undergraduate level educations and research were discussed. Prof. Zhang Guangxin and Prof. Mehrdad Saif led the introductions of current education, research, and faculty status for each party, followed by discussions of possible future collaboration. Both parties showed great intentions towards the partnership. Administrative details concerning the collaboration were also discussed. Both parties agreed to start the partnership with undergraduate duel-degree program and gradually expand the collaboration to the graduate level, together with academic exchanges for faculty members from both sides. Further meetings and visits were arranged to consolidate the future partnership between two parties.

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