News in 2025
In November 2025, Dr. Ya-Jun Pan and Dr. Emmanuel Witrant were awarded the funding of around CAD $1,000,000 in total by the Canada-France CFP for AI project supported by NSERC Canada and ANR France.
In October 2025, Dr. Ya-Jun Pan presented her kenote talk entitled as "Intelligent Adaptive Robot Interacting with Unknown Environment and Human" at the 2025 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Hangzhou, China, October 2025.
In October 2025, both Lucas Wan and Nuo Chen were awarded the SYPA travel grants at the the 51st Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, Madrid, Spain.
In October 2025, Lucas Wan presented the work entitled as "Adaptive Super-Twisting Sliding Mode Impedance Control for Cooperative Multi-Robot Manipulation", at the the 51st Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, Madrid, Spain.
In October 2025, Nuo Chen presented the work entitled as "Model-Agnostic Meta-Learning Inspired Adaptive Control Framework for Unknown Payload Picking", at the the 51st Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, Madrid, Spain.
In August 2025, Dr. Ya-Jun Pan presented her invited openning talk entitled as "Introduction to IES: Vision, Impact, and Opportunities" at the 2nd IEEE IES SYP Congress, Tunis, Tunisia.
In July 2025, Dr. Min Xia who is a Professor from Western University, was invited to give a seminar entitled as "Repurposing Retired Lithium-ion Batteries from Electric Vehicles for Sustainable Energy" at Dalhousie University as a kick-off event for the newly formed IES Chapter in the IEEE Canadian Atlantic Section.
In June 2025, Dr. Ya-Jun Pan presented her invited talk entitled as "Intelligent Adaptive Control: from Autonomous Systems to Human-Robot Interaction" at the Workshop at the University of Agder, Grimstad, Norway.
In May 2025, Dr. Emmanuel Witrant who is a Professor from the Université Grenoble Alpes in France, was invited to give a seminar entitled as "Thermonuclear Fusion and Profiles Control in Tokamaks" at Dalhousie University as a kick-off event for the newly formed IES Student Branch Chapter in the IEEE Canadian Atlantic Section.
In May 2025, Dr. Ya-Jun Pan presented her kenote talk entitled as "Advanced Control for the Teleoperation of a Multi-Robot Team and its Human-Robot Trust” at the Multilateral Teleoperation Workshop, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation - ICRA, Atlanta, USA.
In May 2025, Dr. Ya-Jun Pan was invited to give a speech for the May Convocation for the Faculty of Engineering graduates.
In May 2025, Dr. Ya-Jun Pan was awarded the 2025 CSME Mechatronics Medal award.
In May 2025, Nuo Chen presented the work entitled as "Haptic Robotic Hand Design and Control with Neural-Network Based System Identification” at the Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering International Congress (CSME/CFDSC/CSR 2025), Montreal, Canada.
In May 2025, Ya-Jun Pan presented her plenary talk entitled as "Intelligent Adaptive Control: from Autonomous Systems to Human-Robot Interaction" at the Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering International Congress (CSME/CFDSC/CSR 2025), Montreal, Canada.
In May 2025, Dr. Shane Forbrigger presented the work entitled as "Pupillometry for Arm and Hand Motor Intent Detection" at the 19th IEEE/RAS-EMBS International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics (ICORR 2025) in Chicago, USA.
IECON 2025 - Lucas Wan and Nuo Chen received the certificates for the SYPA travel grant in October 2025:
IROS 2025 - Dr. Ya-Jun Pan delivered a keynote talk in October 2025:
CSME 2025 - Dr. Ya-Jun Pan received the CSME Mechatronics Award and delivered a plenary talk in May 2025:
