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Department of Mechanical Engineering

 

 

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Professor
 

 

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Professor Shane (Shengquan) Xie

Qual: BE-Automatic Control, ME, PhD - Mechatronics (HUST), PhD - Manuf. Automation (CANT)
Phone: (0064) 9 373 7599, Ex 88143, Fax: (0064) 9 373 7479
Office: Eng. Building, Room 1.1004
e-mail: s.xie@auckland.ac.nz

Role

·         Head of Medical and Rehabilitation Robotics Research Group

·         Head of Biomechatronics Research Group

·         Adjunct Professor Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan University of Technology

·         Editor in Chief for International Journal of BioMechatronics and Biomedical Robotics

·         Editor in Chief for International Journal of Advanced Mechatronics and Robotics

·         Member of Editorial Board- International Journal of Mechatronics and Manufacturing Systems

·         Member of Editorial Board- International Journal of Advanced Mechatronic Systems

·         Professor in Mechatronics Engineering

·         Staff in Mechatronics Teaching Group

·         Member of Timetable committee

Teaching

·         Real Time Software Design - MECHENG313

·         Mechatronics 1 - MECHENG312

·         Mechatronics 2 - MECHENG405

·         Mechatronics Design - MECHENG406A

·         Adanced Mechatronic Systems-MECHENG702

·         Medical Devices Technologies – ENGGEN770; Medical Devices Practice-ENGGEN771

Research Interests/Activities

Prof. XIE was a Lecturer in Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST, China), a FRST Post-doctoral Fellow in the University of Canterbury (New Zealand), a Lecturer, senior Lecturer, an Associate Professor and Professor in the University of Auckland (New Zealand).  In the last few years, he has been engaged in the following funded R&D (Research & Development) projects.

·               Medical robotics, Assistive and rehabilitation robots, Parallel robot, Robotic hands, Image-guided robots for long bone surgery

·               Smart sensors, actuators, bio-sensors and actuators, and micro-machining methods and systems

·               Intelligent mechatronics systems, high speed, high precision, computer-controlled motion control systems, computer controlled industrial automation systems, computer software and hardware systems.

·               Intelligent control system design, fuzzy logic control, sliding mode control and auto tuning using IFT

·               Multi-axis CNC system design including Multi-axis laser-cutting and three-axis CNC systems design,  Laser and pneumatic marking computer control system

·               Internet based control and manufacturing  WWW based information management systems for rapid tool/mould making

·               Rapid product (plastic injection mould/tool and customized sheet metal cutting product) development for world-class manufacturing

·               Nesting algorithms-Trim-loss (or 2D stock cutting) minimisation in a garment manufacturing company.

·               Novel technologies for building high-tech virtual enterprises

Current Research/Activities

·             Funding, Scholarship and current postgraduates

·             Industrial projects (Two funded projects available from 01/02/2012, contact with me for details!)

·             Bio-mechatronics (Medical and rehabilitation robots)

·             Intelligent mechatronics systems including auto-tuning algorithms, system learning methods and theory

·             Vision techniques and applications

·             Smart sensors and actuators

·             Rapid product development strategy, methods, tools and systems for SMEs  

·             Step-compliant Open Architecture Control and STEP/NC

·             Micro machining in MEMS

Selected Publications

·         5 books, 15 book chapters, 120 referred journals, 106 refereed conference papers. More information here

Other Activities

·               Industrial Consulting Activities:
Consulting and working experiences in various industries, such as automobile manufacturing, machine tool manufacturing, textile, power generation, shipbuilding, electronics manufacturing, injection mould/tool making, and sheet metal manufacturing industries. My expertise is in the areas of mechatronics, control technology and manufacturing automation.

·               International Connections:
Prof. Paul Tu, Professor, Department of Mechanical and manufacturing Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Calgary, Canada
Prof. Deng Chao, Dept. of Mech. Eng., Huazhong Univ. of Science and Technology, China
Prof. Gary Wang, Department of Mechatronics Engineering,
Simon Fraser University, Canada

 

 

 

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