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RACS Chapter received ‘2012 Chapter of the Year Award’!
The IEEE HK RACS Chapter received ‘2012 Chapter of the Year Award’. This award was presented by the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society, during the 2012 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation held in St. Paul, MN, USA.
Fellowship of IEEE
RACS members Wen J Li and James Lam were elected to IEEE Fellows 2011 and 2012, respectively. The HK RACS Chapter currently has 16 IEEE Fellows among its members. The list of IEEE Fellows is as follows (based on alphabetical order of last names): Xiren Cao, Guanrong Chen, Jie Chen, Gang Feng, Jie Huang, James Lam, Wen J Li, Zexiang Li, Yun-Hui Liu, Max Qing Hu Meng, Li Qiu, Jun Wang, Yu Wang, Wing S Wong, Ning Xi, Yangsheng Xu.
Student Prizes
Students received the best paper awards in international journal and conferences:
- Best Student Paper Award
T K Lau, “Learning Autonomous Drift Parking from One Demonstration,” 2011 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO), Phuket, Thailand, December 7-11, 2011. - Zibin Wang won the student design competition, 2011 International Symposium on Optomechantronics Technologies, November 2011.
- Chao Chen received the “Youth Technology Innovation Award of China”, August 2011.
- 2011 IEEE/ASME TMECH Best Paper Award, July 2011
T L Lam, H H Qian, and Y S Xu, “Omnidirectional Steering Interface and Control for a Four Wheel Independent Steering Vehicle,” IEEE/ASME Trans. on Mechatronics, Vol. 15, pp. 329-338, 2010. - Best Student Paper Award
A S L Hung, H T Guo, W H Liao, D T P Fong, and K M Chan, “Experimental Studies on Kinematics and Kinetics of Walking with an Assistive Knee Brace,” Proceedings of 2011 IEEE International Conference on Information and Automation, pp. 45-50, June 2011. - Chao Chen won the Champion at the Professor Charles K. Kao Student Creativity Awards 2011 (Postgraduate Individual Entries), May 2011.
- Tianxiang Bai won the 1st Prize in 2011 IEEE Hong Kong Section (PG) Student Paper Contest.