The Trend of Advanced Welding: Intelligentized Welding Manufacturing

ISfIM organized a lecture on The Trend of Advanced Welding: Intelligentized Welding Manufacturing on 13 July 2023 at School of Mechanical Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. The lecture was given by Professor Shanben Chen from School of Materials Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China.

Lecture Abstract:

This lecture presents some concepts on intelligentized welding manufacturing, such as the ideas of intelligentized welding manufacturing technology/systems (IWMT/S), intelligentized robotic welding technology/systems (IRWT/S) and intelligentized welding manufacturing engineering (IWME), and investigates the framework and constitution of technologies and systems for intelligentized welding manufacturing. Furthermore, the lecture also shows some evolutions of research works in the IRWTL at SJTU on intelligentized welding manufacturing, which includes multi-information sensing and knowledge modeling of arc welding process; intelligent control methodology for welding dynamic process; intelligentized technologies for robotic welding and intelligentized autonomous welding robot system for the special environment.Some studies on intelligentized welding presented in this paper might introduce related essential research directions or fields of intelligentized technologies for modern welding manufacturing

Speaker Biography:

Prof Shanben Chen received his PhD degree in 1991 from Harbin Institute of Technology, P R China. He was awarded the Distinguished Professor position, Cheung Kong Scholar Program of Ministry of Education of P R China & Li Ka Shing Foundation, Hong Kong, and engaged in Shanghai Jiao Tong University, P R China from 2000. He is currently Director of Intellgentized Robotic Welding Technology Laboratory, School of Material Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

Prof Chen’s research interests include intelligentized technologies for welding robot, intelligent control of welding dynamical process, modeling and control of complex systems, robust control of uncertain systems, and relevant ranging in welding automation and advanced welding manufacturing. He is the author or co-author of 10 academic books and more than 300 journal papers.

Prof Chen is the former Chair of Robotics & Automation Committee of Chinese Welding Society (CWS) from 1996 to 2022. As the Initiator, Prof Chen organized and presided over a series of the International Workshop on Intelligentized Welding Manufacturing (IWIWM) every two years from 2017; and organized and presided over a series of International Conference on Robotic Welding, Intelligence and Automation (RWIA) every four years from 2002. As one of Editors in Chief of the TIWM, Prof Chen founded “Transactions on Intelligent Welding Manufacturing” (TIWM）at Springer in 2017. He is a Senior member of IEEE from 1995.