Researcher's Information

Associate Professor

WANG, Zhongkui

Robotics

Research on Robotic systems for improving automation in the food and agricultural industries

Automation in the food and agricultural industries is still underdeveloped because of the lack of robotic systems capable of efficiently handling food and agricultural products with large variations in shape, size, and mechanical properties. Our research aims at developing effective robotic systems for handling food and agricultural products to facilitate the automation in the food and agricultural industries. Particularly, we focus on developing technologies of soft actuator, robotic gripper, AI based object recognition, ROS/ROS2 based robotic system, and IoT component. By integrating these technologies with open sourced cloud services, we make efforts to build cloud-based robotic systems to maximize the cost performance of the developed systems. In addition, we are dedicated to applying these technologies to real-world applications together with our industrial partners. The figures shown below are two examples of our developed robotic systems.
  • Robotic system for simultaneously packaging multiple cucumbers

  • Robotic system for automatic arrangement of tempura for food serving