Technologies in Unattended Surface Maintenance and Autonomous Decision Making in Unstructured Environments

[1] Zhou H, Song W*. Theoretical flowrate characteristics of the conjugated involute internal gear pump[J]. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part C: Journal of Mechanical Engineering Science, 2013, 227(4): 730-743.

[2] Song W, Zhou H, Zhao Y. Design of the conjugated straight-line internal gear pairs for fluid power gear machines[J]. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part C: Journal of Mechanical Engineering Science, 2013, 227(8): 1776-1790.

[3] Song W, Chen Y, Zhou H. Investigation of fluid delivery and trapped volume performances of Truninger gear pump by a discretization approach[J]. Advances in Mechanical Engineering, 2016, 8(10): 1687814016672365.

[4] Song W, Liu S, Pan H, et al. Investigation on the design of hydraulic high-speed punching press with a large press force and a long press stroke[J]. Advances in Mechanical Engineering, 2016, 8(12): 1687814016683601.

[5] Ji D, Song W*, Zhao H, et al. Deep sea AUV navigation using multiple acoustic beacons[J]. China ocean engineering, 2016, 30(2): 309-318.

[6] Wang T, Song W*, Zhu S. Analytical research on energy harvesting systems for fluidic soft actuators[J]. International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems, 2018, 15(1): 1729881418755876.

[7] Song W, Jiang H, Wang T, et al. Design of permanent magnetic wheel-type adhesion-locomotion system for water-jetting wall-climbing robot[J]. Advances in Mechanical Engineering, 2018, 10(7): 1687814018787378.

[8] Chen Z, Huang F, Sun W, Song W*. An improved wave-variable based four-channel control design in bilateral teleoperation system for time-delay compensation[J]. IEEE Access, 2018,6:12848-12857.

[9] Chen Z, Huang F, Song W*, et al. A novel wave-variable based time-delay compensated four-channel control design for multilateral teleoperation system[J]. IEEE Access, 2018, 6: 25506-25516.

[10] Chen Z, Huang F, Sun W, Yang C, Song W*, et al. A novel wave-variable based bilateral teleoperation control design for transparency improvement[C]. 2018 IEEE ICIA Best Conference Paper.

[11] Qin L ,  Huang F ,  Chen Z , Song W* , et al. Teleoperation Control Design with Virtual Force Feedback for the Cable-Driven Hyper-Redundant Continuum Manipulator[J]. Applied Sciences, 2020, 10(22):8031.

[12] Wang T ,  You Z ,  Song W* , et al. Dynamic Analysis of an Underwater Cable-Driven Manipulator with a Fluid-Power Buoyancy Regulation System[J]. Micromachines, 2020, 11(12):1042.

[13] Li G, Chen X, et al. Self-powered soft robot in the mariana trench[J]. Nature, 2021, 591(3):66.

[14] Hu C, Zhu S, Liang Y, Mu Z, Song W*. Visual-Pressure Fusion for Underwater Robot Localization with Online Initialization, IEEE RA-L, 2021, 10:8426-8433.

Technical Expert of the Special Project “Smart Robots”, supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China

Member of the China Robot Summit Expert Committee

Member of the Technical Committee on Marine Equipment, Chinese Society for Oceanography (CSO)

Member of the Technical Committee on Intelligent Process Control,   Fluid Transmission and Control Institution, Chinese Mechanical Engineering Society (CMES)

Secretary General of the Zhejiang Robot Industry Association

Secretary General of the Zhejiang Robot Industry Technology Alliance

Dr. SONG’s team consists of 21 full-time research fellows, 3 postdoctoral fellows, 5 doctoral students, and 7 master’s students. By focusing on key technologies related to cloud brain platforms for intelligent robots, the team studies knowledge database construction for multimodal robots, mixed inference based on knowledge and rules, intention recognition in human-machine interaction, autonomous decision-making and control for robots, task scheduling and cooperative control in heterogeneous robot groups, accelerating inference algorithm in robots aided by “cloud-edge-terminal” cooperation, etc. The team possesses several development platforms, developed independently or purchased, including wheeled mobile robots, humanoid robots, and mobile robotic arms. We welcome researchers with educational background in computer science, mechanical control, mathematics, mechatronics and so on, to join us for fundamental and applied research in intelligent robotics.