Dissertation Title: Proactive Intelligence-driven Robot Manipulation for Versatile Power Battery Pack Assembly
Date: 2026/05/12 – 2026/05/12
Dissertation Title: Proactive Intelligence-driven Robot Manipulation for Versatile Power Battery Pack Assembly
Speaker: Qi Zhou, Ph.D. candidate at SJTU Global College
Time: May 12 from 3:00-5:00 p.m., 2026 (Beijing Time)
Location: Room 414A, Longbin Building
Abstract
With the rapid development of the new energy vehicle industry, Power Battery Pack Assembly (PBPA) is shifting toward flexible, high-mix, and customized manufacturing, which requires robots to possess semantic understanding, safe motion planning, and compliant interaction capabilities. To address the limitations of rule-based automation, this dissertation proposes a proactive intelligence-driven robot manipulation framework integrating cognition, planning, and execution. A VLM-based multi-agent framework is developed to connect high-level semantic instructions with physical manipulation actions and enable zero-shot generalization across diverse tools and tasks. A safety-enhanced hybrid motion planning method combining geometric reasoning, reinforcement learning, and Bayesian optimization is proposed to efficiently generate collision-free trajectories under dynamic constraints. In addition, a hybrid interaction control framework is established for human–robot collaborative transportation of deformable objects, improving stability, compliance, and comfort through reinforcement learning, admittance control, and multimodal force/tactile sensing. Overall, this work enables robots to evolve from passive execution to proactive adaptation and provides theoretical and technical support for intelligent robotic systems in next-generation power battery manufacturing.
Biography
Qi Zhou is a Ph.D. candidate in Mechanical Engineering at the Global College, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, under the supervision of Prof. Youyi Bi. Zhou’s research focuses on robotic control and its application in industry. During doctoral study, Zhou has published four first-author papers. Zhou was awarded the National Scholarship and the Merit Student honor.