Professor Lau, Tat Ming Darwin
Assistant Professor
Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
China
Biography
Dr. Darwin Tat Ming LAU received his B. Eng (1st Hons) and B.CS degrees from the University of Melbourne, Australia, in 2008. He received his Ph.D. degree in the area of robotics in 2014 from the University of Melbourne, Australia. From 2014 to 2015, he was a postdoctoral research fellow at the Institute of Intelligent Systems and Robotics, University Pierre and Marie Curie, Paris, France. He joined the Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering, the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), as an assistant professor in October 2015. His research focuses on topics in bio-inspired and manipulator robotics including musculoskeletal and humanoid robots, cable-driven robots, biomechatronic systems and redundantly actuated robots. These studies involve the development, kinematic and dynamic analysis, design, optimisation and control of these systems. His work has been published in leading journals within his research field, including IEEE Transactions on Robotics, IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics and Journal of Mechanical Design, and his research was recognised by being awarded the "University of Melbourne Chancellor's Prize for Excellence in the Ph.D. Thesis". He is currently an Associate Editor for the Mechatronics specialty section of the journal Frontiers in Mechanical Engineering.
Research Interest
Musculoskeletal and humanoid robots: Develop humanoid robots that are actuated by muscle-like actuators for applications in anthropomimetic manipulation, neurorobotics, biomechanics, motor impairment diagnosis and rehabilitation. Cable-driven robots: Design and analyse robots driven by cables for unique applications such as large-scale manufacturing were the system is rapidly deployable and self-reconfigurable. Biomechatronic systems: Develop mechatronic systems that operate on or cooperate with humans and animals for biomedical applications. Redundantly actuated robots: Study control strategies for redundantly actuated robots to increase their performance, safety, robustness and adaptability
Publications
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D. Lau, D. Oetomo, and S. K Halgamuge, "Inverse Dynamics of Multilink Cable-Driven Manipulators with Consideration of Joint Interaction Forces and Moments", IEEE Transactions on Robotics, Vol. 31, No. 2, pp. 479-488, 2015
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D. Lau, J. Eden, and D. Oetomo, "Fluid Motion Planner for Non-Holonomic 3-D Mobile Robots with Kinematic Constraints", in print, IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 2015
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D. Lau, D. Oetomo and S. K. Halgamuge, "Necessary Conditions on the Cable-Routing Matrix for the Wrench-Closure Validity of Multilink Cable-Driven Manipulators", in print, ASME Journal of Mechanical Design, 2015
