Research

Network-based tele-operation and tele-robotics; context-aware networks, robotic surgery; surgical simulation; haptics; wireless sensor networks; robots and intelligent systems.

Application

Telesurgery; minimally invasive surgery; surgery training systems.

Activities

• Leading Guest Editor:
  • Focused Section on Wireless Mechatronics for IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics (2011)
  • Special Issue on HAVE, IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement (2011)
• Associate Editor:
  • IEEE Transactions Automation Science and Engineering
  • IEEE/ASME Transactions Mechatronics
  • nternational Journal of Robotics and Automation
  • Journal of Intelligent Service Robotics
  • Control and Intelligent Systems
• General Chair of IEEE International Workshop on Haptic Audio Visual Environments and their Application (2010 and 2011)
• Publicity Chair of 13th IASTED International Conference on Control and Applications CA (2011)
• Publicity Chair of IEEE International Conference on Automation and Logistics (2010-2011)
• Organizing Chair of IEEE International Conference on Information and Automation (2011)
• Program Co-Chair of IEEE/ASME Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics (2010)
• Poster Session Chair of the Eighth World Congress on Intelligent Control and Automation (2010)

Journal Articles

C. Hua, P. X. Liu, “Convergence Analysis of Tele-operation Systems with Unsymmetric Time-Varying Delays,” IEEE Transactions on Circuits & Systems II, 56(3):240-244, 2009.

I. G. Polushin, H. J. Marquez, A. Tayebi, P. X. Liu “A Multichannel IOS Small Gain Theorem for Systems with Multiple Time-Varying Communication Delays,” IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control , 54(2): 404-409, 2009.

W. Li, P. X. Liu, “Robust Adaptive Tracking Control of Uncertain Electrostatic Micro-actuators with H-infinity Performance,” Mechatronics, 19(5):591-597, 2009.

F. Ding, P. X. Liu, H. Yang, “Parameter Identification and Intersample Output Estimation for Dual-Rate Systems,” IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Part A, 38(4): 966 – 975, 2008.

I. G. Polushin, P. X. Liu, C.-H. Lung, “Projection-Based Force Reflection Algorithm for Stable Bilateral Teleoperation over Networks,” IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, 57(9):1854-1865, 2008.

I. Polushin, P. X. Liu, C.-H. Lung, “On the Model-Based Approach to Nonlinear Networked Control Systems, ” Automatica, 44(9):2409-2414,2008.

W. Li, P. X. Liu, “Tracking Control of Biomathematical Model of Muscular Vessel,” Electronics Letters, 44(16): 956-958, 2008.