I-Hsum Lee
Associate Professor
Bachelor Program in Intellectual Creativity Engineering, National Chung Hsing University
Email: ihsumlee@dragon.nchu.edu.tw, ihsumlee@gmail.com
Dr. I-Hsum Lee is an Associate Professor whose research focuses on intelligent robotics, smart systems, robot software integration, and AI-based mechatronic applications. His work combines deep learning, Robot Operating System (ROS), autonomous navigation, cloud robotics, and robotic manipulation for practical industrial and assistive applications.
Research Highlights
- Intelligent Robotics: Development of deep-learning-based robotic systems and information systems.
- Private Cloud Parallel Computing: Building private cloud environments with Hadoop to provide high-performance parallel computation for robots.
- ROS Integration: Integrating Robot Operating System (ROS) for communication, backend monitoring, and coordination of single and multi-robot systems.
- Multimodal Deep Learning: Combining unimodal and multimodal neural networks for intelligent robotic applications in industrial environments.
- Smart Systems: Designing and implementing tracked robots, autonomous mobile robots, wheeled navigation robots, pneumatic-driven equipment, and serial and parallel robotic arms.
Representative Research Directions
- Autonomous Mobile Robots: Visual navigation robots, 3D point-cloud mapping, pedestrian danger behavior prediction, and lightweight AI models for safer robot operation in dynamic environments.
- Cloud Robotics: Development of a cloud robotics platform using Hadoop, HBase, and distributed computation to improve robot task execution and system scalability.
- Robot Learning and Manipulation: Integration of deep learning with robotic arms for handwriting, maze solving, defect detection, and collaborative manipulation tasks.
- Smart Mechatronic Systems: Development of pneumatic artificial muscle systems, Stewart platforms, X-Y platforms, and intelligent electromechanical equipment.
Honors and Recognition
- Best Paper Award (Third Place), 2022 International Conference on Fuzzy Theory and Its Application
- Distinguished Teaching Award, Tamkang University, 2022
- Outstanding Mentor Award, Tamkang University, 2022
- Team member of the 2024 Future Tech Award project on a comprehensive rehabilitation system integrated with a novel brain-computer interface
- Excellent Poster Presentation Award, 2024 NSTC Control Division Project Achievement Poster Exhibition
Education, Service, and Team Development
Dr. Lee has actively supervised student research projects, national competitions, and industry-academia collaboration programs. He has also served in international conference organizing roles, including Webmaster Chair, Technical Committee member, Registration Chair, and Special Issue Chair.