BRIEF BIO

Dr. LAM, Tin Lun is currently a Research Fellow with the Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. He received his B.Eng. Degree with First Class Honors and Ph.D. Degree in the Department of Automation and Computer-Aided Engineering from the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2006 and 2010, respectively. Dr. Lam is a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (IEEE-RAS). Dr. Lam’s research interests include the areas of field robotics, human-machine interface, novel mechanism design, and intelligent control. His research has resulted in one monograph, four international journal papers, and over ten international conference papers from major international journals and conference proceedings in robotics and automation such as TRO, JFR, ICRA and IROS. One of the journal papers was received an IEEE/ASME T-MECH Best Paper Award at 2011.

NEW BOOKS

Tin Lun Lam, and Yangsheng Xu Tree Climbing Robot, Springer-Verlag, 2012

SELECTED PAPERS

1. Tin Lun Lam and Yangsheng Xu, "Tree Climbing Robot,Design, Kinematics and Motion Planning", Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics, Vol.78, 2012.

2. Tin Lun Lam and Yangsheng Xu , "Biologically Inspired Tree-climbing Robot with Continuum Maneuvering Mechanism Continuum Maneuvering Mechanism", Journal of Field Robotics, Vol.29, pp.843-860, 2012.

3. Tin Lun Lam, Huihuan Qian , and Yangsheng Xu, "Direct Yaw Moment Control for Four Wheel Independent Steering and Drive Vehicles based on Centripetal Force Detection", 2012 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp.103-108, 2012.

4. Tin Lun Lam and Yangsheng Xu, "Climbing Strategy for a Flexible Tree Climbing Robot - Treebot", IEEE Transactions on Robotics, Vol.27, No.6, pp.1107-1117, 2011.

5. Tin Lun Lam and Yangsheng Xu, "Treebot: Autonomous Tree Climbing by Tactile Sensing", IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp.5849-5854, Shanghai, China, 9-13 May, 2011.

6. Tin Lun Lam and Yangsheng Xu, "A Flexible Tree Climbing Robot: Treebot – Design and Implementation", IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp.789-794, Shanghai, China, 9-13 May, 2011.

7. Tin Lun Lam and Yangsheng Xu, "Mechanical Design of a Tree Gripper for Miniature Tree-Climbing Robots", IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp.1487-1492, San Francisco, California, USA, 25-30 September, 2011.

8. Tin Lun Lam, Guoqing Xu, Huihuan Qian, and Yangsheng Xu, "Linear-time Path and Motion Planning Algorithm for a Tree Climbing Robot - TreeBot", The IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp.4988-4994, 2010.

9. Tin Lun Lam, Huihuan Qian, and Yangsheng Xu, "Omnidirectional Steering Interface and Control for a Four-Wheel Independent Steering Vehicle", IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, Vol.152, No.3, pp.329-338, June 2010, 2010.

10. Ronghuai Qi, Tin Lun Lam, Huihuan Qian, and Yangsheng Xu, "Arc Tracking on an Eight-Axis Robot System", International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, pp.678-683, 2011.

11. Ronghuai Qi, Huihuan Qian, Tin Lun Lam, Yangsheng Xu, Tao Zhang, Wei Zhu, Feng Zhang , and Jianxiong Liao, "A New Cartesian Cutting Robot with Laser Height Control System", International Conference on Mechatronics and Automation, pp.2153-2158, 2011.

12. Huihuan Qian, Guoqing Xu, Jingyu Yan, Tin Lun Lam, Yangsheng Xu, and Kun Xu, "Energy Management for Four-Wheel Independent Driving Vehicle", IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Taipei, Taiwan, 2010.

RESEARCH PROJECTS

Treebot is a tree-climbing robot that has high maneuverability on an irregular tree environment. It is able to reach many places on trees including branches that surpasses the state of the art tree climbing robots. Treebot can maneuver on a complex tree environment, but only five actuators are used in the mechanism. As a result, Treebot can keep in compact size and lightweight.

The omni-directional kart, named “OK-1”, is a hybrid electric vehicle with technology of omni-directional steering, which is designed and developed in the Advanced Robotics Laboratory. It is omni-directional, because it can make crab-like parallel translation and tornado-like rotation. Hence, parking becomes an easy manipulation for even a freshman of driving.