UK – JP CHARM
Robotics Workshop, 22nd and 23rd March, 2012
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Professor Honghai Liu
[email protected]
The University of Portsmouth
Prof. of Intelligent Systems; multifingered manipulation, vision-based information analytics.
Expertise / activity / challenges
Areas of interest for collaboration
 A computational framework for generalizing robot
 Develop multifingered prosthetic
kinematics with probabilistic models;
 Human hand gesture/in-hand recognition algorithms;
 Biomedical signal processing for transferring signals, e.g.,
EMG/EEG to control prosthetic hands;
 Vision based methods for analysing human motion via
contextual information;
 Advanced control for stability analysis for multifingered
object manipulation.
devices/interfaces for precise object
manipulation;
 Dynamic movement primitives and central
pattern generator based humanoid locomotion;
 Biological signal based modelling for hand
object manipulation intention;
 Robot schemas.
 Prosthetic manipulation;
 Real-time vision based human motion analysis;
 Cognition-driven biomechanics.
 Biomedical signal based controlling individual fingers of
prosthetic hands;
 3D reconstruction for real-time human motion analysis;
 Humanoid locomotion using motor primitives;
 Correlation between signals, e.g., EMG and EEG.