AUT - Loulin Huang

Associate professor Loulin Huang

Phone: 64-9-9219999 ext 6708

Email: loulin.huang@aut.ac.nz

Postal Address:
School of Engineering
Auckland University of Technology
Private Bag 92006
Auckland 1142
New Zealand

Qualifications:

• PhD, M.Eng, B.Eng

Memberships and Affiliations:

• IEEE Member

Teaching Areas:

• Dynamics and Control
• Mechatronics & Automation
• Robotics
• Mechanism
• Engineering computation

Research areas:

• Mechatronics
• Robotics (mobile robots and robotic manipulators)
• Dynamics and Control

Current Research Projects:

• Road texture depth measurement

•  A collaborative approach: monitoring populations of native bees

(The above projects are funded  or  co-funded  by the Ministry of  Science and Innovation  of New Zealand and  companies)

• Dynamic modelling and control of flying robots

• Mobile robot dynamics and control

(The above projects are  funded by the AUT School of Engineering Research Funding)

• Control of chewing robot

• Harddisk vibration identification and control

(The above projects are done in cooperation with Massey University, University of Alaska  and  National  Tsing  Hua  University of Taiwan)

 

 

Publications:

Books

• L. Huang, Introduction to Rigid Body Mechanics for Multidisciplinary Engineering, Springer, New York, Dec 2011.  ISBN 978-1-4614-0471-2.

Book Chapters

• L. Huang and J. Zhou,  “Chapter6 - An approach to improve real time speed estimation from encoder readings”  in  Autonomous Robots: Control, Sensing and Perception, pp. 140 - 150,  Cuvillier Verlag  Oct 2011, ISBN 978-3-86955-866-0.

Recent Journal Papers

• G. Sheng, L. Huang, J. Chang, J. He and S. Duan, “An approach for non-stationary and nonlinear vibration identification and control of active air-bearing slider system”, Microsystem Technologies, Vol. 17 Nos. 5-7, pp. 1123–1127, 2011.

• S. Gao, K. Nakasa, K. Nogi and L. Huang, "Analysis and experiment on incremental forming process for the spiral plate of continuous screw conveyer", Journal of Computers, Materials & Continua, 22(1), pp. 39-54, 2011.

• L. Huang, W. L. Xu, J. Torrance and J.E. Bronlund, “Design of a position and force controller for 6RSS parallel robots and its application in chewing robots”, International Journal of Humanoid Robotics, Vol. 7, No. 3, pp. 477–489, 2010.

• L. Huang, “Direction and control adjustment for smooth motion of wheeled mobile robots”, Int. J. Intelligent Systems Technologies and Applications, Vol. 8, Nos. 1-4, pp. 46-56, 2010.

• L. Huang “Control approach for tracking a moving target by a wheeled mobile robot with limited velocities”, IET Control Theory & Applications, Vol. 3, Iss. 12, pp. 1565-1577, 2009.

• L. Huang, “Velocity planning for a mobile robot to track a moving target  -- a potential field approach” , Robotics and Autonomous  Systems, Vol. 57,  Iss. 1,  pp. 55-63, 2009.

• L. Huang, “Wall following control of an infrared sensors guided wheeled mobile robot”,   Int.  J.  Intelligent Systems Technologies and Applications, Vol. 7, No. 1, pp. 106–117, 2009.

• L. Huang, “Direction and control adjustment for smooth motion of wheeled mobile robots”,  Int.  J.  Intelligent Systems Technologies and Applications, Vol 8, Nos. 1-4,  pp. 46-56, 2009.

• L. Huang,  Q. Song and N. Kasabov, “Evolving connectionist system based role allocation for robotic soccer”,  International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems, Vol.  5, No. 1, pp. 59-62, 2008.

• L. Huang, S. S. Ge and T. H. Lee, “Position / force control of uncertain constrained flexible joint robots”, Mechatronics, Vol. 16, No. 2, pp. 111-120, 2006.

Recent Conference Papers

• L. Huang and C. Murton, “A control system for an unmanned micro aerial vehicle”, Proceedings of 15th International Conference on Mechatronics Technology, pp. 12–16, Melbourne, Dec 2011.

• L. Huang, “An approach for robust control of a twin-rotor multiple input multiple output system”, Proceedings of 2011 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation,  pp. 4423–4428, Shanghai, May 2011.

• N. H. Hart and L. Huang, “An image based approach to monitor New Zealand native bees”  Proceedings of  the 5th IEEE International Conference on Robotics, Automation and Mechatronics, pp. 353–357,  Qingdao, China, September 2011.

• J. Zhou and L. Huang, “ Experimental study on sensor fusion to improve real time indoor localization of a mobile robot”, Proceedings of  the 5th IEEE International Conference on Robotics, Automation and Mechatronics, pp. 258–263, Qingdao, China, September 2011.

• G. Sheng,  L.  Huang,  J. Xu and  J. –Y. (James)  Chang,  “Probing and diagnosis of slider-disk interactions in nanometer clearance regime using artificial neural network”, 21th ASME Information Storage and Processing Systems Conference,  Santa Clara, CA,  USA, June  2011.

• C. Sun, J. Bronlund, L. Huang and P. Xu,  “Adaptive fuzzy control on a chewing machine”, accepted by The 5th IEEE International Conference on Cybernetics and Intelligent Systems, pp. 202–207, Qingdao, China, September 2011.

• L. Huang, W. L. Xu, J. Torrance and J.E. Bronlund, “Modeling and impedance control of a chewing robot with a 6RSS parallel mechanism”, Proceedings 2nd International Conference on Intelligent Robotics and Applications, pp.733-743, Singapore, Dec 2009.

• M. T. Chew, S. Demidenko, L. Huang, C. Messom, G. Sen Gupta   and M. Watts , “Simple mobile robots for introduction into engineering ”, Proceedings of 2009 IEEE International  Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference, pp. 797–802,  Singapore,   May, 2009.

• J. Torrance , S. Hutchings ,  J.E. Bronlund ,  L. Huang  and  W. L. Xu  , “ Human  jaw motion measurement, analysis, and robotic reproduction”,  Proceedings of the  15th Int. Conf. on Mechatronics and Machine Vision  in Practice, pp. 517-521, Auckland, New Zealand,  Dec 2008.

• L. Huang  and  L. Tang,   “Dynamic target tracking control for a  wheeled  mobile robots constrained by limited  inputs”,  Proceedings of the 17th World Congress The International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC),  pp. 3087–3091,  Seoul, Korea, July 2008.

• L. Huang, “A potential field approach for controlling a mobile robot to track a moving target”, Proc.  22nd IEEE International Symposium on Intelligent Control, pp. 65 – 70, Singapore, 2007.

• L. Huang, “Control of a unicycle-like mobile robot to track a moving target”, Proc. 13th IEEE IFAC International Conference on Methods and Models in Automation and Robotics, pp. 899 – 903, Szczecin, Poland, 2007.