Stefan Williams: Australia is not so strong in China
[Netease smart news on August 24 news] 2017WRC World Robot Conference held in Beijing, during the conference, the chairman of the Australian Robotics and Automation Association Stefan Williams conducted a speech on the theme of "Australian robot market growth opportunities" speech.
Stefan Williams said that we will pay special attention to the development of industrial robots, but unlike Australia, the United States, or the United Kingdom, Australia does not have a strong manufacturing base because many manufacturing industries are overseas, so more attention is paid to Service robots.
He further stated that yesterday we talked about the "One Belt and One Road" initiative. At that time, I learned about a trade route from China to Eastern Europe. I think this is a line of things. There can also be a north-south route. We have discussed space. In terms of development cooperation, Australia can play a more important role in this aspect. At the same time, Australia is the second largest overseas education market in the world. Every year, a large number of students come to study in Australia, and some students go to other countries, but Australia’s There are a lot of Chinese students. One-fourth of the international students here are from China.
Stefan Williams also reported on the domestic R&D situation in Australia. First of all, he talked about the Australian Wild Robot Center, which was founded by the University of Sydney twenty-five years ago. It is mainly engaged in innovative research and training in the field of autonomous systems and participates in autonomous systems. In the commercialized industry, efforts are being made to benefit these systems. At present, the Australian Field Robotics Center is an engineering research institute at the University of Sydney. There are about 7 scholars, 40 researchers, 40 doctoral students and 30 software engineers. The electrical and electronics staff, one of the largest field robots and intelligent systems research groups in the world, is committed to the scientific advancement and industry acceptance of autonomous robots and intelligent systems for field operations. The annual budget is 13 million U.S. dollars. 80% come directly from industry projects.
The following is a speech record:
I thank the organizers for inviting me to attend this meeting. I am also very happy to talk to you about the growth opportunities in the Australian robot market. We will pay special attention to the development of industrial robots, but unlike Australia, the United States, or the United Kingdom, we do not have a strong manufacturing base because many manufacturing industries are overseas, so more attention is paid to service robots. I will tell you about the market and development opportunities for Australian service robots.
Yesterday we talked about the "One Belt and One Road" initiative. At that time, I learned about a trade route from China to Eastern Europe. I think this is a line of things. There can also be a north-south route. We discussed cooperation in space development and Australia can play a more important role in this area. At the same time, Australia is the second largest overseas education market in the world. Every year, a large number of students come to Australia to study, and some students go to other countries. However, there are a lot of Chinese students in Australia, and there are 1/4 of international students here. From China.
First of all, I will introduce the Australian Field Robotics Center, which was established by the University of Sydney twenty-five years ago. It is mainly engaged in innovative research and training in the field of autonomous systems, participating in the commercialization of autonomous systems, and striving to make these systems available to the entire society. . At present, the Australian Wild Robot Center is an engineering research institute at the University of Sydney. It has about 7 scholars, 40 researchers, 40 doctoral students and 30 employees in the aerospace electronics of software machinery. It is the world’s largest wild robot and One of the Intelligent Systems Research Group is committed to the scientific advancement of the autonomous robots and intelligent systems for field operations and the acceptance of the industry. The annual budget is 13 million US dollars, 80% of which comes directly from the industry projects. We are supported by the Australian government, but many of the developments are developed in cooperation with companies from the bottom up. They first tell us what their needs are, and then we develop robots that increase productivity. We have also had a positive impact on Australia’s corporate economy, and we have cooperated with many governments and industry companies, from local companies to large multinational companies.
Our work in ITS is mainly focused on high-integrity navigation, route planning and control, and modeling of driver intentions. In the past two days we have talked about the collision of driverless cars under uncertain conditions. Forecasting, improving situational awareness, and more. The Australian government also supports a number of industry and university consortia, hoping to work together on targeted research. Recently, we have just launched an i-Move cooperative research center and launched a $100 million plan to study the future transportation system. We hope to see the future transportation system in the context of a smart city. Yesterday's professor from Finland talked about the application of Kalmar's products in the port. The robot's trailer can also be seen here. It has an autonomous navigation system and an autonomous control system. This work is at the Port of Brisbane. Australia is at the forefront of the development and application of this technology.
We have had a decade of cooperation history with the Rio Tinto Group's Mine Automation Center. This is the status of future mining. Many jobs involve fully automated mine systems. The first is to mine a mine, then use machine learning techniques to model its geographical features, and the entire process of transporting the ore to the port, etc., is automated at the end of the process. It has been used in all mines in Western Australia. The trucks are also unmanned and can transport ore in the mines. At present, the number of unmanned trucks in the mining area has exceeded that of manned trucks. We have added new sensors. At the beginning, people may still be a bit skeptical. But in the past ten years, our cooperation with Rio Tinto has been completely autonomous. The system is fully functional.
Now we are also collaborating with some SMEs. This project is to cooperate with the Australian Federal Government. It is the training of special forces, mainly to explore some flexible robot training systems. We applied it to Western Australia and set up a plan for a marathon goal, applying it to military training in Australia, Canada, and the United States. The key insight here is to develop a field that can be applied to people who do not know much about robots. That is, we don't need doctors or engineers to operate it when we use them. We hope these systems are very easy to use and people can easily use them. Understand how they are used, including the last-mile vehicle transportation program.
Agriculture is a very important industry in Australia. We have introduced robots and intelligent systems into ultra-high-precision agriculture. We use multi-robot surveys and use different sensors to model the output. The agricultural industry is very Interested in this year, we will also cooperate with the Australian horticultural association. Agriculture can use such robots to carry out these tasks when it is removed from the ground or when weeds are removed, because the time between the ground and the final planting is delayed, but now we can shorten this by using machine operations. Cycle, accelerate planting time. This system is the removal of weeds from machinery. It used to be done by people. It can now be done by machines. Here, some chemical fertilizers can be added and the condition of the soil can be monitored at the same time, including the monitoring, evaluation and analysis of the conditions and quality of the entire soil.
We have also applied this technology to gardening. This is one of the robots. We are also thinking about the commercialization of this technology. We have designed such a system that is very easy to manufacture, uses machine learning techniques to count the number of apples, and can also use this machine to remove insects. This system can automatically identify which is the fruit and then count it. This is a state of real-time recording, so these technologies also have many application scenarios in the agricultural field. Today, and many other conferences, we are all discussing the technology of autopilot. Nowadays, many doctoral students actually go to Google, Toyota, or other companies to promote the development of autopilot technology. We also research autopilot technology with many large companies, such as Renault or Ford, and Australia now has strong travel needs. For example, you can go to college or go to a sports stadium to ride this autopilot technology. Our students can work in this field because the demand in this area is very large.
We are now also carrying out these tasks in the aviation and defense fields, such as monitoring with small aircraft. We are working with international partners on fixed-wing aircraft. We can see that this is a flight test. It took about two hours on the farm to fly over several thousand acres of land. Of course, our flight experiments also need to meet regulatory requirements. Here we see the process of aerial refueling. Several drones can communicate with each other and then complete aerial refueling. We also used visual information to obtain some information as a feedback, and then led the UAV to run forward. How to identify a good drone operation, communication is also a great challenge. One month after this video was recorded, we further refined and researched and even allowed drones to be connected to some other facilities.
Our research in the academic field also means that there are many application possibilities in the industry. For example, we cooperate with QUANT and carry out maintenance and route planning for their aircraft. Together with us, they also set up a research center to conduct joint research and development. The company's annual budget for fuel has reached a scale of $4 billion, hoping to reduce their fuel size by half a year by technology, and then apply these technologies to day-to-day operations. Marine robots also involve some autopilot technologies. At present, China is also conducting active research, including action route planning and sensing. Of course not only in Australia, we have partners in many countries around the world, trying to establish an ecosystem, think about how to use these technologies to improve the ecological environment, including the protection of our corals. In the past two years, 70% of the corals have been affected by large and small scales. Now through this new technology, it is hoped that it will be able to monitor the marine environment for many years, including those in Japan and the Mediterranean.
Our partners are all over the world, and there are many types of technologies involved. Some applications are in relatively shallow seawater, such as working with divers, and some are applied in deep seawater. Drones in these areas also have different plans for various governments. Australia’s marine science is considered to be a focus area. This was proposed by us in 2007. However, a few drones have been deployed in the next decade to focus on the ecology around Australia. The environment, and can focus on whether climate change really happened. For example, we did a survey in western Australia in 2010 and discovered some coral reefs. Then in 2011 we discovered that the weather or the weather became hotter, so we discovered that these corals were affected. In 2017, we conducted a similar survey and found that the affected corals have actually disappeared. The same area has grown different types of corals. There are some places where it is difficult to trace, especially in the deep sea. These ecologists want to know what changes they have made through these technologies. Of course, not only 2D images, but also 3D images can be used for in-depth understanding.
We have also carried out related work in the field of archeology, and archaeological exploration can be applied to some new technologies. We discovered the remains of the sea in the early 20th century. This is also the earliest human analog computer. This thing has existed for more than 100 years, but people do not even know that there are analog computers at that time. Through this technology, we even discovered the wrecks of the early twentieth century, and we were able to discover more things on the surface of the sea, and we built a 3D model from this information. These archeological colleagues can make full use of this information and even print these topographic maps. Of course, this facility can even enter the depth of 50-60 meters below the sea. This is the skeleton of some underwater creatures. These things can even help us trace the origin of some creatures.
The University of Sydney set their strategic development goals from 2016 to 2020, and they will increase research investment in multidisciplinary areas such as nanotechnology, medical technology, and brain research, including research in the areas of intelligent systems and robotics. In the past, we only focused on one area of ​​robots. Now we are focusing on a wider range of fields involving various kinds of intelligent systems, including perception, control, decision-making and system development. Many areas are also of great concern to us, including Marine robots and medical robots. Medical robots also need to have very good mobility. The medical school and our cooperating agencies have conducted a lot of research in this area, even in clinical trials. We also have a very strong biomedical engineering team. The number of students is increasing. There are hundreds of students. Their achievements in the field of biomedical engineering are very outstanding, and there are also many female students. There are many Women learn more about this profession than in the past.
Australia has announced many new awards to these engineers, including new materials, in the fields of industrial engineering and so on. Professor Glenn has done some clinical research in this area. It can also be combined with the technology of many sensing facilities to better understand human anatomy, and it involves diagnosis, rehabilitation, and later techniques. Another application area for robots is robotic surgery, which involves robotic surgery. Surgeons can also use robots for minimally invasive surgery. This problem was also discussed in medical seminars a few months ago. The robot system here does not even have human intervention. In fact, this is a robotic system that has completed this work alone. We are also very excited about the use of robots in the medical field.
There are many areas where robots can be applied, including applications in automobiles, autopilot, and surgery, including applications for minimally invasive surgery, and many applications in the future. Here the robot can do automatic suturing. Everyone can think about the future of robot surgery. As the data volume becomes larger, the robot's visual effects become better and better, so it can provide more help to the surgeon. Of course, data will be collected more and more in the future, which can help us to analyze some big data.
Everyone is very interested in the development of robots. Australia also has a lot of experience in this area, and robots have changed many industries. There are many opportunities for joint research and there are many opportunities for students to learn. In the future, students will have a lot of job opportunities if they study this major. Jeff mentioned at the beginning that robotics technology will have a huge impact on the future. Of course, people need to further increase their training and upgrade their skills. In the future, the robot intelligent system not only needs our breakthrough in technology, but also involves many other fields, including humanities, society, politics, law, and so on. Of course, the One Belt One Road Initiative also has great potential and can work closely with Australia.
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