About Us

The Industrial AI Group @UoA dedicates to developing translatable intelligent system technologies for transforming the workplace into a more efficient, enjoyable, and sustainable environment. We focus on cognitive sensing, reasoning, control, and human interaction technologies with applications to manufacturing processes, assembly, human-machine collaboration, and quality assurance.

Our work has been sponsored by prestigious funding bodies (e.g., National Science Challenge and Callaghan Innovation) and leading high-tech companies (e.g., Spark, Nokia, Oasis Engineering, and Fletcher Steel), with a total portfolio of >NZD $2.5 million. Several pieces of work have been adopted in the commercial world.

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Meet the Team

Principle Investigator

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Yuqian Lu

Principle Investigator / Senior Lecturer

Graduate Students

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Regina Lee

PhD Student

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Dazzle Johnson

PhD Student

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Saahil Chand

PhD Student

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Zhaojun Qin

PhD Student

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Akhilnandh Ramesh

PhD Student

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Benedict Liang

Master Student

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Jonas Wan

Master Student

Visiting PhD Students

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Luyao Xia

Visiting PhD Student

Alumni

Hongfei Liu

Visiting PhD Student

Joshua Goh

Master Student

Karen Wang

Master Student

Munirah Mahadi

Master Student

Sidhant Raje

Master Student

Yi Zhang

Visiting PhD Student

Ziwei Su

Master Student

Research Projects

Human-centric human-robot collaboration
Initiative to place humans at the centre of human-robot collaborative manufacturing.
Smart Manufacturing System
Develop next-generation communication, coordination and control technologies for manufacturing systems.
Cloud Manufacturing
Summary of our Cloud Manufacturing work, including dataset, demo and publications

Initiatives

HA-ViD: Human Assembly Video Dataset
Towards comprehensive assembly knowledge understanding
HR-SAT: Human-Robot Shared Asssembly Taxonomy
Towards seamless human robot collaboration

Research Gallery

Events

2022 IEEE CASE Conference Talk
Talk on multi-agent reinforcement learning for dynamic job shop scheduling

Recent Publications

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Teaching

MECHENG709 - Industrial Automation
MECHENG710 - Advanced Industrial Automation
MECHENG352 - Manufacturing Systems
MECHENG752 - Technology Management

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