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School of Engineering and Advanced TechnologyMassey University, New Zealand |
Liqiong Tang received her PhD. from the University of Liverpool, UK. She has been with Massey University since 1996 and currently the deputy director of postgraduate programmes in the School of Engineering and Advanced Technology. Her research areas include robotics, mechatronics, intelligent control, and industrial automation. She started the Mechatronics Program at Massey University and was the cluster leader of Mechatronics program for over 10 years. With her leadership, the Mechatronics Program becomes one of the most active programmes at Massey. She has been involved in a number of research projects from industry, healthcare and defence force and constantly obtained research funding from industry and major national and overseas funding bodies such as National Science Challenge, Schlumberger and Callaghan Innovation. She has served as an accessor for major science and technology funding bodies and board member/reviewer for international journals in robotics and mechatronics.
Dexterous robotic and mechatronic systems for pipe inspection
Artificial intelligence, robotics and Internet-of-Things are pushing industry towards production automation with smartness. The next foreseeable reality is robots, machines, production lines, and even household utilities will have intelligence installed. Smart sensing and inspection is critical in future industry in terms of preventing catastrophic production failures in automation and unmanned working environment. This talk presents research on industrial robotic/mechatronic sensing and inspection system development with the interest focusing on pipe inspection for industrial applications. It also highlights the problems and challenges in this research area. The chemical and process industry has high demands on pipe life inspection and measurement systems especially the sensing devices for thin-long tubes working under high temperature, high pressure and corrosive environments to encourage rapid chemical reactions. This talk presents a novel thin-long tube life inspection mechatronic system development. The presentation covers mechatronic sensing systems, dexterous actuating mechanisms, and data acquisition and analysis. It highlights the latest advances in this research area and discusses smart, cloud-based, adaptable, visual, and multi-functional robotic/mechatronic systems for future smart production line inspection and maintenance.