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报告题目：Mechatronics in 21^st Century

Okyay Kaynak教授

时间：5月30日14:00

地点：浙江大学流体动力与机电系统国家重点实验室老楼4楼会议室

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Mechatronics in 21^st Century

Okyay Kaynak

Professor,

UNESCO Chair on Mechatronics

Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey

The development of mechatronics has gone through three stages. The first stage corresponds to the years around the introduction of the word. During this stage, technologies used in mechatronic systems developed rather independently of each other and individually. With the start of the eighties, a synergistic integration of different technologies started taking place, the notable example being in optoelectronics (i.e. an integration of optics and electronics). The concept of hardware/software co-design also started in these years. The third and the last stage can also be considered as the start of the mechatronics age and starts with the early nineties. The most notable aspect of the third stage is the increased use information technology and computational intelligence in mechatronic products and systems. It is now possible to have man­–made systems that exhibit an ability to reason, learn from experience and make rational decisions without human intervention. It is due to this development that we can now talk about Machine Intelligence Quotient (MIQ). In this context, mechatronics is closely related to semiotics.

After a consideration of the above stated developments, the lecture considers the status of mechatronics in the information age and a discussion is given on how the boundaries that separate it from other technologies are eroding. The challenges that the engineers of the 21^st century face are discussed and it is argued that different educational philosophies need to be adopted. Finally the state-of-art reached in mechatronics in the form of intelligent systems is overviewed with examples from different industries and a perspective on the future is given.

Audience:   Undergarduate and Graduate Science students

Duration:    60 Minutes with discussions

Short Biography of Okyay Kaynak

Okyay Kaynak received the B.Sc. degree with first class honors and Ph.D. degrees in electronic and electrical engineering from the University of Birmingham, UK, in 1969 and 1972 respectively.

From 1972 to 1979, he held various positions within the industry that included 3.5 years in Saudi Arabia, working as a project engineer. In 1979, he joined the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey, where he is presently a Full Professor. He has served as the Chairman of the Computer Engineering and the Electrical and Electronic Engineering Departments and as the Director of Biomedical Engineering Institute at this university. Currently, he is the UNESCO Chair on Mechatronics and the Director of Mechatronics Research and Application Centre. He has held long-term (near to or more than a year) Visiting Professor/Scholar positions at various institutions in Japan, Germany, U.S. and Singapore. His current research interests are in the fields of intelligent control and mechatronics. He has authored three books and edited five and authored or coauthored more than 300 papers that have appeared in various journals, books and conference proceedings.

Dr. Kaynak is a fellow of IEEE. He is or has served on the Editorial or Advisory Boards of a number of scholarly journals. Currently he is a Co-Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics and an Associate Editor of IEEE Sensors Journal and IEEE/ASME Trans. on Mechatronics. He recently became the Editor-in-Chief-Elect of the IEEE/ASME Trans. on Mechatronics as well.

Dr. Kaynak is active in internationally organizations, has served on many committees of IEEE and was the president of IEEE Industrial Electronics Society during 2002-2003 and Vice-President (for Conferences) of Computational Intelligence Society during 2004-2005. He presently is a Vice Chair of MGA (Membership and Geographic Activities) Board.