Program

11th International Conference of Control, Dynamic Systems, and Robotics & Artificial Intelligence
(CDSR'24)
June 10, 2024 - June 12, 2024 | Chestnut Conference Centre - University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada


The Conference will be held in Toronto, Canada, at the Chestnut Conference Centre – University of Toronto. Please click here for map of the location.

Our program is based on EDT (Eastern Daylight Time - Time zone in Toronto, ON)

09:00 AM - 10:00 AM Session
Virtual Session I
10:00 AM - 10:10 AM

Session Break

10:10 AM - 11:30 AM Session
Virtual Session II

CDSR'24 Scientific Committee Chairs:


Dr. Aparicio Carranza


New York City College of Technology, USA
Conference Chair
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Dr. Miguel Bustamante


Vaughn College of Aeronautics and Technology, USA
Conference Chair
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Session

June 10 | 09:00 AM - 10:00 AM | Session Chair: Dr. Aparicio Carranza, New York City College of Technology, USA


Virtual Session I


CDSR 141
Time: 09:00 - 09:10
Presenter: Sie Long Kek, Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia, Malaysia
Authors: Sie Long Kek, Wah June Leong, Cynthia Mui Lian Kon

CDSR 135
Time: 09:10 - 09:20
Presenter: Rouzbeh Aghaieebeiklavasani, University of Tehran, Iran
Authors: Rouzbeh Aghaieebeiklavasani, Gholam Reza Rokni Lamouki

CDSR 139
Time: 09:20 - 09:30
Presenter: Frank J. Chen, Holy Heart of Mary High School, Canada
Authors: Frank J. Chen

CDSR 115
Time: 09:30 - 09:40
Presenter: Jing Zhang, Laurentian University, canada
Authors: Jing Zhang, Meng Cheng Lau, Ziping Zhu

CDSR 131
Time: 09:40 - 09:50
Presenter: Dr. Edwin Yaz, Marquette University, USA
Authors: Timothy A. Goodwin, Susan C. Schneider, Edwin E. Yaz

CDSR 102
Time:09:50 - 10:00
Presenter: Cade Joseph Koschnik, University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, USA
Authors: Cade Joseph Koschnik, Md Rasedul Islam


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Session

June 10 | 10:10 AM - 11:20 AM | Session Chair: Dr. Aparicio Carranza, New York City College of Technology, USA


Virtual Session II


CDSR 123
Time: 10:10 - 10:20
Presenter: Haoliang Sheng, Laurentian University, Canada
Authors: Haoliang Sheng, MengCheng Lau

CDSR 121
Time: 10:20 - 10:30
Presenter: Wei Wan, Claflin University, USA
Authors: Wei Wan, Yuanyuan Peng, John M Cioffi, Kalia T. Glover

CDSR 137
Time: 10:30 - 10:40
Presenter: Frank J. Chen, Holy Heart of Mary High School, Canada
Authors: Frank J. Chen, Zhiyue Lei, Norman J. Chen

CDSR 120
Time: 10:40 - 10:50
Presenter: Agamemnon Crassids, Rochester Institute of Technology, USA
Authors: Agamemnon Crassids, Aashrita Mandalapu, Joshua Coleman

CDSR 125
Time: 10:50 - 11:00
Presenter: Dr. Edwin Yaz, Marquette University, USA
Authors: Justin Kennah, Edwin E. Yaz, Susan C. Schneider

CDSR 130
Time: 11:00 - 11:10
Presenter: Hamed Jabbari Asl, ATR Computational Neuroscience Laboratories, Japan
Authors: Hamed Jabbari Asl, Eiji Uchibe

CDSR 110
Time: 11:10 - 11:20
Presenter: Ahmet Efekaan Efe, Proted Prosthetics and Orthotics Inc., METU, Middle East Technical University, TÜRKİYE
Authors: Furkan Evci, Ahmet Efekaan Efe, Erhan Ilhan Konukseven

CDSR 127
Time: 11:20 - 11:30
Presenter: Miriam Flores-Padilla, Cinvestav, México
Authors: Miriam Flores-Padilla, Chidentree Treesatayapun


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Our program is based on EDT (Eastern Daylight Time - Time zone in Toronto, ON)


8:00 AM - 9:00 AM

Registrations

9:00 AM - 9:15 AM
Official Opening
Dr. Aparicio Carranza, New York City College of Technology, USA
9:15 AM - 10:00 AM Keynote Lecture - Physical
Aerial Manipulation: Perspectives and Challenges
Dr. Farrokh Janabi-Sharifi, Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada
10:00 AM - 10:45 AM Keynote Lecture - Physical
The “Key” to Robot Vision: Learned Keypoints for 6DoF Pose Estimation
Dr. Michael Greenspan, Queen’s University, Canada
10:45 AM - 11:05 AM

Coffee Break

11:05 AM - 11:50 AM Keynote Lecture - Physical
High Performance Motion Controls for Production Machines
Dr. Kaan Erkorkmaz, University of Waterloo, Canada
11:50 AM - 01:05 PM Session
Robotics & Artificial Intelligence
01:05 PM - 01:10 PM

Group Photo

01:10 PM - 02:10 PM

Lunch Break

Keynote Lecture - Physical

June 11 | 09:15 AM - 10:00 AM | Session Chair: Dr. Aparicio Carranza, New York City College of Technology, USA


Aerial Manipulation: Perspectives and Challenges
Dr. Farrokh Janabi-Sharifi, Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada


Farrokh Janabi-Sharifi is a Professor of Mechanical, Industrial, and Mechatronics Engineering and the Director of Robotics, Mechatronics and Automation Laboratory (RMAL) at Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU). Professor Janabi-Sharifi received a PhD degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Waterloo, Canada in 1995. He was an NSERC postdoctoral fellow and lecturer in the Center for Intelligent Machines and Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of McGill University between 1995 and 1997. Later, he joined TMU’s Department of Mechanical, Industrial, and Mechatronics Engineering in 1997 where he is currently the founding director of the Mechatronics Engineering Program. He was also a founding member of graduate programs at TMU including Mechanical Engineering and Biomedical Engineering Programs. His research interests span intelligent optomechatronic systems with the focus on image-guided control and learning of robots, medical robots, and autonomous aerial systems. He has published significantly in the above areas with more than 250 peer reviewed journal and conference articles, a few books, and several patents in his track record. He has been a visiting professor in KAIST (Daeijeon, Korea); IRISA-INRIA (Rennes, France); and Technical University of Munich (Munich, Germany). He has also been organizer and co-organizer of several international conferences on optomechatronic systems control. Dr. Janabi-Sharif has been specialty chief editor of Frontiers in Manufacturing Technology- Automated Systems, and a technical editor of several journals including IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, International Journal of Optomechatronics, Journal of Robotics, Automation. Dr. Janabi-Sharifi is a member of the Professional Engineers Ontario (PEO), founding member of International Society for Optomechatronics (ISOM), Senior Member of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Senior Member of the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME), Fellow of the Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering (CSME), Fellow of Engineering Institute of Canada (EIC), Fellow of Canadian Academy of Engineering (CAE), and Fellow of Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association.


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Keynote Lecture - Physical

June 11 | 10:00 AM - 10:45 AM | Session Chair: Dr. Aparicio Carranza, New York City College of Technology, USA


The “Key” to Robot Vision: Learned Keypoints for 6DoF Pose Estimation
Dr. Michael Greenspan, Queen’s University, Canada


Michael Greenspan is a professor with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and the School of Computing, at Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada. Dr. Greenspan’s research investigates problems of computer vision and robotics, with a focus on the development of machine learning-based pose estimation methods for industrial applications, including manufacturing and mining. Dr. Greenspan has over 150 refereed publications, including five patents, and he has served on the technical and program committees of over 200 international conferences in the fields of computer vision and robotics. He is a founding member of Ingenuity Labs Research Institute, was an Academic Resident at Seiko Epson Corporation, and has served as Visiting Professor at University of Coimbra, Portugal. Dr. Greenspan holds membership in the Professional Engineers of Ontario, the IEEE Computer Society, and the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society. He has been the recipient of the Premier’s Research Excellence Award, the Canadian Image Processing and Pattern Recognition Society Young Investigator’s Award, and a number of Best Paper and Favorite Professor Awards.


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Keynote Lecture - Physical

June 11 | 11:05 AM - 11:50 AM | Session Chair: Dr. Aparicio Carranza, New York City College of Technology, USA


High Performance Motion Controls for Production Machines
Dr. Kaan Erkorkmaz, University of Waterloo, Canada


Kaan Erkorkmaz obtained his Ph.D. from the University of British Columbia in 2004. The same year, he joined the University of Waterloo as an Assistant Professor, where he subsequently received promotion to the rank of Associate Professor (2009) and Professor (2015). At Waterloo, Prof. Erkorkmaz established the Precision Controls Laboratory (UW/PCL) which conducts research on cutting mechanics, machine tool dynamics, virtual manufacturing, and high-performance Computer Numerical Controls (CNC). His lab holds successful collaborations with, and performs technology transfer to, companies in the aerospace, automotive, and machine tool industries. Parallel to his research interests, Prof. Erkorkmaz’ teaches undergraduate and graduate-level courses at the University of Waterloo, in the areas of manufacturing, precision engineering, and automatic controls. Prof. Erkorkmaz is recipient of the Society of Manufacturing Engineers Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer Award (2007), Government of Ontario Early Researcher Award (2008), InnoLecture visiting Professorship at the University of Stuttgart (2011), August-Wilhelm Scheer Visiting Professorship at the Technical University of Munich (2019) and the Sandford Fleming Foundation Teaching Excellence Award (2016). In 2022, he was granted the honorary title ‘TUM Ambassador’ by the Technical University of Munich. Erkorkmaz is a registered Professional Engineer in the province of Ontario. He is a Fellow of the International Academy for Production Engineering (CIRP), where he currently serves as the Technical Secretary of the Academy, and as Secretary of CIRP’s Scientific and Technical Committee on Machines (STC-M).


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Session

June 11 | 11:50 AM - 01:05 PM | Session Chair: Dr. Aparicio Carranza, New York City College of Technology, USA


Robotics & Artificial Intelligence


CDSR 133
Time: 11:50 - 12:05
Presenter: Joel Arango Ramirez, Universidad Iberoamericana Ciudad de México, México
Authors: Joel Arango-Ramirez, Malinali M. Perez-Sanchez, Mario Ramirez-Neria, Eduardo G. Hernández-Martinez

CDSR 136
Time: 12:05 - 12:20
Presenter: Mario Ramirez-Neria, Universidad Iberoamericana Ciudad de México, México
Authors: Alejandro Martínez-Valdez, Mario Ramirez-Neria, Jaime González-Sierra

CDSR 138
Time: 12:20 - 12:35
Presenter: Mario Ramirez-Neria, Universidad Iberoamericana Ciudad de México, México
Authors: Javier Vega-Gutiérrez, Mario Ramírez-Neria, Rodrigo Ramírez-Juárez, Axel Becerril-Velasco, Alejandro Martínez Valdez

CDSR 119
Time: 12:35 - 12:50
Presenter: Man Chun Chung, University of Calgary, Canada
Authors: Man Chun Chung, Mahdis Bisheban, Jeff Pieper

CDSR 112
Time: 12:50 - 01:05
Presenter: Chi-Cheng Cheng, National Sun Yat-sen University & Kaohsiung Medical University, Taiwan
Authors: Chi-Cheng Cheng, Cheng-Che Tsai


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Our program is based on EDT (Eastern Daylight Time - Time zone in Toronto, ON)


09:00 AM - 9:50 AM Plenary Lecture - Physical
Innovation Design and Applications of Robotic Manipulators in Intelligent Manufacturing System
Dr. Dan Zhang, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
09:50 AM - 10:10 AM

Coffee Break

10:10 AM - 11:10 AM Session
Control Engineering
11:10 AM - 12:10 PM

Lunch Break

7:00 PM - 09:00 PM

Gala DINNER

Plenary Lecture - Physical

June 12 | 09:00 AM - 9:50 AM | Session Chair: Dr. Miguel Bustamante, Vaughn College of Aeronautics and Technology, USA


Innovation Design and Applications of Robotic Manipulators in Intelligent Manufacturing System
Dr. Dan Zhang, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong


Professor Dan Zhang is a Chair Professor of Intelligent Robotics and Automation at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He received his PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Laval University, Canada in 2000. He was a Kaneff Professor and Tier 1 York Research Chair in Advanced Robotics and Mechatronics in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at York University. Dr. Zhang was a Canada Research Chair in Advanced Robotics and Automation, was a founding Chair of the Department of Automotive, Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering with the Faculty of Engineering & Applied Science at Ontario Tech University. He received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Laval University, Canada, in June 2000. Dr. Zhang’s research interests include: synthesis and optimization of parallel and hybrid mechanisms; generalized parallel mechanisms research; reconfigurable robots; micro/nano manipulation and mems devices (e.g., sensors); rescue robots; smart biomedical instruments (e.g., exoskeleton robots and rehabilitation robotics); AI/robotics/autonomous systems; Aerial and Underwater Robotics and Artificial Intelligence for Robotics. Dr. Zhang has published 254 journal papers and 190 conference papers, 12 books, 9 book chapters and numerous other technical publications. Dr. Zhang has served as a General Chair for 67 International Conferences and delivered 117 keynote speeches. Dr. Zhang is listed as the World’s Top Two Percent Researchers by Stanford’s Standardized Citation Indicators in 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023. Dr. Zhang is a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering (CAE), a Fellow of the Engineering Institute of Canada (EIC), a Fellow of American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), and a Fellow of Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering (CSME), a Senior Member of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), and a Senior Member of SME.


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Session

June 12 | 10:10 AM - 11:10 AM | Session Chair: Dr. Miguel Bustamante, Vaughn College of Aeronautics and Technology, USA & Dr. Chi-Cheng Cheng, National Sun Yat-sen University & Kaohsiung Medical University, Taiwan


Control Engineering

CDSR 140
Time: 10:10 - 10:25
Presenter: Mario Ramirez-Neria, InIAT Institute of Applied Research and Technology, Universidad Iberoamericana Ciudad de México, Mexico
Authors: Carolina Martínez-Valadez, Daniela Renee Colin-Tinoco, Rodrigo Ramírez-Juárez, Mario Ramírez-Neria

CDSR 126
Time: 10:25 - 10:40
Presenter: Arash Basirat Tabrizi, Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada
Authors: Arash Basirat Tabrizi, Jeremy Catania, Baiqian Qi, Kourosh Zareinia

CDSR 124
Time: 10:40 - 10:55
Presenter: Rodrigo Ramírez-Juárez, InIAT Institute of Applied Research and Technology, Universidad Iberoamericana Ciudad de México, México
Authors: Rodrigo Ramírez-Juárez, Mario Ramírez-Neria, Alberto Luviano-Juárez

CDSR 128
Time: 10:55 - 11:10
Presenter: Jonah Boutin, Jafer Kamoonpuri, Reza Faieghi, Joon Chung, Sandrine de Ribaupierre, Roy Eagleson
Authors: Jonah Boutin, University of Western Ontario, Canada


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