Position & Roles

  • Professor of Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering

  • Deputy Director, UTS Research Centre for Intelligent Mechatronic Systems

  • Coordinator, PG Program of “Manufacturing Engineering and Management”, Faculty of Engineering, UTS

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Visiting Appointments

  • Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University, Jan.-Mar. 2009

  • Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University, 19 Jan. 2008 – 20 Mar. 2008

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Qualification & Membership

  • PhD, MEng, BEng

  • Member, IEEE; MIEAust

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Research Interests

  • Intelligent robotic systems for infrastructure maintenance

  • Assistive robotics (for human augmentation, rehabilitation and aged care)

  • Physical human-robot interaction

  • Multi-robot coordination in complex environments

  • Path/motion planning and collision avoidance for mobile robots and robot manipulators

  • Computational intelligence and optimization

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Awards

  • Best student paper award, P. Chotiprayanakul, D.K. Liu, D. Wang, G. Dissanayake (2007), “A 3-dimensional force field method for robot collision avoidance in complex environments”, Proceedings of the 24th International Symposium on Automation and Robotics in Construction, 19-21 September 2007, Kochi, Kerala, India, pp139-145

  • Best paper award, N. Kirchner, D.K. Liu and G. Dissanayake, “Bridge maintenance robotic arm: capacitive sensor for obstacle ranging in particle laden air”, Proceedings of the 23rd International Symposium on Automation and Robotics in Construction (ISARC 2006), October 3-5, 2006, Tokyo, Japan, pp596-601

  • Best paper award nomination, N. M. Kwok, Q. P. Ha, D. K. Liu and G. Fang (2006), “Intensity Preserving Contrast Enhancement for Gray-Level Images using Multi-objective Particle Swarm Optimization”, Proceedings of the 2nd IEEE Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (IEEE CASE), October 7-10, 2006, Shanghai, China, pp19-24

  • Carrick Australian Award, S. Murray, D.K. Liu, V. Lasky, K.K. Fung, Lothar Weber, 2006 Carrick Australian Awards for University Teaching _Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning, by the Carrick Institute for Learning and Teaching in Higher Education, Australia, July 2006

  • University Teaching Award, S. Murray, D.K. Liu, V. Lasky, K.K. Fung, “Remote Access Laboratories for Promoting e-Learning”, 2005 University of Technology, Sydney (UTS) Teaching Awards _Category one: an exemplary innovation in teaching by a team, December 2005.

  • Finalist of the 2005 AaeE Award, V. Lasky, D.K. Liu, S. Murray, L. Weber, K. Choy, “Remote Access Laboratories for Engineering Education”, finalist of the 2005 AaeE Excellence in Curriculum Innovation in Engineering Education Award (14 July 2005).

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Patents

  • N. Kirchner, D.K. Liu, G. Dissanayake, “An algorithmic extension to laser based range finders that introduces the novel function of non-contact material type identification”, Provisional Patent Number: 2007904898, Type of work: Software, 10 September 2007.

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Journal Editorship

  • Editorial Board Member, International Journal of Biomechatronics and Biomedical Robotics, 2010--present

  • Editorial Board Member, International Journal of Intelligent Computing and Cybernetics, 2007-present

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Conference Service:

  • Program Committee member, 2009 Australasian Conference on Robotics and Automation (ACRA), December 2 - 4, 2009, Sydney, Australia

  • Associate Editor, IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS2009), October 11-15, 2009, St Louis, MO, USA

  • Technical Program Committee member, The 6th International Conference on Computational Intelligence, Robotics and Autonomous Systems (CIRAS),   Aug 2009, Incheon, Korea

  • Program Committee member, The 2009 IEEE International Conference on Information and Automation (ICIA 2009), Zhuhai/Macau, China, June 22-25, 2009

  • Program Committee member, IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC’2009), 18-21 May 2009, Trondheim, Norway

  • Program Committee member, The International Symposium on Maritime Logistics and Supply Chain Systems (MLOG2009),     April 23-24, 2009, Singapore

  • Program Committee member, 2009 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Scheduling,  March 30--April 2, 2009, Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville, TN, USA

  • Steering Committee member, The 4th International Conference on Autonomous Robots and Agents (ICARA'09), 10-12 February 2009,           Wellinton, New Zealand

  • Symposium Co-Chair, The ISSNIP 2008 Symposium on Human-Robot Interaction (ISSNIP-HRI 2008), December 15-17, Sydney, Australia

  • Associate Editor and Technical Committee Member, The 2008 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics(ROBIO2008), December 14-17, 2008, Bangkok, Thailand

  • Associate Editor, IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (2008 IROS), Sept, 22-26, 2008, Nice, France

  • Program Committee member, 5th International Conference on Computational Intelligence, Robotics and Autonomous Systems (CIRAS 2008), 29-21 June, 2008, Linz, Austria

  • International Program Committee member, 2008 IEEE International Conferences on Cybernetics & Intelligent Systems (CIS 2008), 3 - 6 June 2008, Chengdu, China

  • Technical Committee member, IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligent (WCCI 2008), Hong Kong, June 1-6, 2008

  • Local Committee Co-Chair, the 8th International Conference on Intelligent Technologies (InTech'07), Sydney, Australia, 12-14 December 2007

  • Publicity Co-Chair, the 2007 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC 2007), 25-28 September 2007, Singapore

  • Paper reviewer, the 4th International Conference on Computer Intelligence, Robotics and Autonomous Systems (CIRAS 2007), 28-30 November 2007, Palmerston North, New Zealand

  • Paper reviewer, the 2007 IEEE Computational Intelligence and Scheduling Symposium (CISched 2007), 1-5 April 2007, HonoluluHawaii, USA

  • Publicity Co-Chair, the 3rd International Conference on Autonomous Robots and Agents (ICARA’06), New Zealand, 12-14 December 2006

  • Paper reviewer, the 2006 International Conference on Intelligent Computing (ICIC 2006), August 16–19, 2006 in Kunming, China

  • Paper reviewer, the 2006 IEEE International Conference on Cybernetics and Intelligent Systems (CIS), Bangkok, Thailand, 7-9 June 2006

  • Paper reviewer of the 2006 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC’2006), Vancouver, Canada, 16-21 July 2006

  • Publicity Co-chair, the 3rd International Conference on Computer Intelligence, Robotics and Autonomous Systems (CIRAS 2005), Singapore, 13-16, December 2005.

  • Special Sessions Co-chair, the International Conference on Autonomous Robots and Agents (ICARA’04), 2004

  • Paper reviewer of the 2004 IEEE Conference on Cybernetic and Intelligent Systems (CIS’04), 1-3, December, 2004, Singapore

 

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Journal Paper Reviewer

  • IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics

  • IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics

  • IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation

  • IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine

  • Robotica

  • Sensors & Actuators: A. Physical

  • Journal of Scheduling

  • ASME Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement and Control

  • Proceedings of the IMechE Part B: Journal of Engineering Manufacture

  • Mechatronics

  • International Journal of Systems Science

  • International Journal of Control and Intelligent Systems

  • European Journal of Operational Research

  • Asia Pacific Journal of Operational Research

  • International Journal of Robotics Research

  • International Journal of Computational Intelligence

 

 

 

 

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