Research Project 6 for Doctoral Candidate 6 (DC6):
Adaptive control methods for magnetoactive soft materials in robotic applications. (WP1, WP4, WP6)
Objectives:
- To develop adaptive control methods for magnetoactive soft materials.
Expected Results:
- Adaptive control methods which can adaptively switch magnetic field on/off to obtain different physical properties of the materials for robust, energy-efficient locomotion and object manipulation of robots.
Principal Supervisor:
Prof. Poramate Manoonpong, University of Southern Denmark (SDU), Denmark.
Co-Supervision:
Assoc. Prof. Xiaofeng Xiong, University of Southern Denmark (SDU), Denmark.
Host Institution:
University of Southern Denmark (SDU), Denmark, the Ph.D. degree will be awarded by University of Southern Denmark (SDU), Denmark.
Planned Secondments:
- 1st Secondment at OTH to gain complementary expertise on materials to benefit for the control design and experiments with the materials. Supervisor: Prof. Mikhail Chamonine, Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule (OTH) Regensburg, Germany.
- 2nd Secondment at UL to gain complementary expertise on materials characterization and to work on optical feedback concepts. Supervisor: Prof. Irena Drevenšek Olenik, University of Ljubljana (UL), Slovenia.
- 3rd Secondment at WEG to apply these algorithms in the industrial environment. Supervisor: Dr. Stephan Ulrich, Wegard GmbH (WEG), Germany.