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Professor Simon X. Yang

Professor Simon X. Yang

  • Course Instruction
  • Research
    • Research Interests
    • Research Associates
    • Research Projects
    • Publication Samples
  • Professional Experience
  • ARIS Lab
    • Overview
    • People
    • Research Areas (ARIS)
    • Current Projects
    • Publications
    • Hot Links
  • Hot Links
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Research Projects

Contents

  • 1 Robotics
  • 2 Intelligent Systems
  • 3 Acknowledgment
    • 3.1 Our research projects are funded by:

Robotics

  • New approaches to intelligent navigation of surface and underwater robotic systems
  • Intelligent navigation, communication and cooperation of multi-robot systems
  • Intelligent mobile manipulation robotic system for greenhouse vegetable harvesting
  • Intelligent sensing, navigation and teleoperation of mobile robotic systems
  • Prototype of a network-enabled intelligent autonomous mobile robot for industrial applications
  • Internet based network communication and teleoperation of robotic systems
  • Human-robot interaction through natural language understanding and virtual reality
  • Robot vision and image/signal processing in robotic systems
  • Prototype of behaviours-based mobile robots for industrial applications
  • Real-time map building/updating, path planning, tracking and control of mobile robots in dynamic environments
  • Real-time motion control of robotic systems with unknown robot dynamics
  • Real-time multi-sensor fusion and reactive navigation of mobile robotic systems

Intelligent Systems

  • e-safety: A framework for management of organizational safety using autonomous mobile robots in a self-configurable wWireless sensor network
  • Remote monitoring and analyzing pork farm odour using wireless sensors and an odour dispersion models
  • Prototype of robotic electronic noses for odours and integrated modeling of odour emissions in pork production systems
  • Modeling and analysis of risk factors for enteric pathogen infection
  • Neural network model of temperature impact on West Nile activities
  • Microbial food safety – integrated modeling techniques for “farm to fork” risk assessment
  • Modeling and analysis of supercritical fluid extraction of bioactive components from biomaterials
  • Sensory motor control of wing beat in insects such as a locust and a fly
  • Sensory perception and visual motion information processing in vertebrate retina

Acknowledgment

Our research projects are funded by:

  • Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)
  • Health Canada
  • Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC)
  • Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC)
  • Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs (OMAFRA)
  • Ontario Centres of Excellence (OCE)
  • Ontario Pork
  • University of Guelph
  • And several industrial partners

Simon X. Yang
Advanced Robotics & Intelligent Systems (ARIS) Lab
School of Engineering
University of Guelph
50 Stone Road East
Guelph, Ontario, N1G 2W1
Canada

Mail: syang@uoguelph.ca
Office: Room 2513, Richards Building
Phone: (519) 824-4120 ext. 52437 (office); 4033 (lab)
Fax: (519) 836-0227

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