Wen-Hong Zhu - Inventor

Role at the Canadian Space Agency

He is the author of a book entitled Virtual Decomposition Control (VDC), a revolutionary approach resulting in a breakthrough in precision control of complex robots, published by Springer. He has successfully applied VDC to STVF and CART to achieve unprecedented control precision in both output force control of hydraulic cylinders and adaptive control of harmonic drives. He also developed a generic velocity estimation approach by using both position and acceleration sensors. His current research activity includes FPGA-based control of modular robots. He has authored and co-authored more than 70 papers in leading international journals and conference proceedings. His work has been cited more than 3500 times internationally (Google Scholar) with a SCOPUS h-index of 25 by 2022.

Since obtaining his Ph.D of Engineering, he has conducted research works in a number of international institutes including Shanghai Jiaotong University from 1991 to 1995, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology in 1995, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven from 1996 to 1997, and University of British Columbia from 1997 to 2001.

He was the winner of the Swedish Open Championship in Robust Robot Control 2004, sponsored by ABB Robotics.