Professor Chao Chen
Professor Chao Chen
Professor Chen joined the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Monash University as a Lecturer in 2007, and established the Laboratory of Motion Generation and Analysis (LMGA) and has been the director of LMGA since 2008. The mission of LMGA is to solve real world challenges for better industry and society by means of advanced technologies of robotics and AI. The research activities include agriculture robots, medical robots, and infrastructure robots. The research focuses include soft robotics, motion and planning, and robotic intelligence. The Monash Apple Retrieving System (MARS) led by him received the 2023 Excellence Award (Project of Year) by Engineers Australia Victoria.
More information of Professor Chen’s research can be found at here. If you are interested, you are welcome to contact Professor Chen.
Qualifications
- Master's degree, Mechanical Engineering,(Robotics), McGill University
- Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Mechanical Engineering, McGill University
- Postdoc, University Of Toronto University
Expertise
- Agriculture Robotics
- Medical Robotics
- Infrastructural Robotics
Research Projects
Not started projects
Changing the Landscape of Rail through Advanced Asset Health Monitoring Systems.
Changing the Landscape of Rail through Advanced Asset Health Monitoring Systems.
AIC Infrastructure Cluster Investment Plan - Building Sustainable and resilient portal cities.
Current projects
Development of autonomous robotic platform for versatile purposes
The outcome of this project will be an autonomous robotic system to conduct specific/general tasks for various purposes.
ARC Research Hub for nanoscience based construction material manufacturing.
The research Hub will develop novel construction materials including binders, cement additives, high performance
concrete materials, concrete structural systems, polymer composites, and pavement materials. The multidisciplinary Hub provides a centralized platform to transform construction materials industry into an advanced manufacturing sector delivering sustainable and resilient infrastructure assets. The Hub will deeply drive advances in nanotechnology, cement chemistry, concrete technology and develop extreme engineering solutions. The Hub will train the next generation of skilled workforce, re-positioning Australian industry competitiveness and global market leadership to capture international infrastructure development opportunities.
Development of autonomous robotic platform for versatile purposes.
The outcome of this project will be an autonomous robotic system to conduct specific/general tasks for various purposes.
Past projects
BIOLOID Premium X 5 (in process)
Development of a novel transparent 6-dof haptic interface for robotic surgery.
A hapric-based immersive motion platform for human performance evaluation.
A motion platform capable of combining continuous centrifugal rotation and large linear displacement with an
additional five degrees of motion is proposed. The system will house a human subject at the end of a large
serial robot similar to a human arm, which can rotate continuously about its base. The robot arm will be
installed on a large linear axis enabling the simulation of movements and accelerations along a straight path
as well as rotation provided by other axes of the robot. The motion platform will comprise audio and visual
devices, and haptic-based control mechanisms, e.g. a steering wheel and pedals or a helicopter cyclic, to
provide a number of human immersed scenarios for driving/flying training and human perception evaluation.
A Novel Reconfigurable Unlimited Spherical Motion Generator.
Recent research in various areas, such as motion simulation, human-like robots and precision tracking system, has encountered some common fundamental challenges, one of which being how to generate unlimited, continuous, and precise spherical motion. The difficulties in some of current technologies are: 1) limited work space of robotic manipulators, and 2) low precision and torque capability of electromagnetic spherical motors. This proposal introduces an innovative reconfiguration concept and strategy for unlimited and continuous spherical motion and force transmission. Upon this strategy, a spherical motion generator will be developed for the validation in different applications of cutting-edge areas.