2019年05月31日下午，香港中文大学、新加坡国立大学Ben M. Chen教授应邀在将军路校区自动化学院1号楼403会议室做题为“Task and Motion Planning for Autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicles”的学术报告。报告由南京航空航天大学副校长兼自动化学院院长姜斌教授主持，自动化学院部分师生参加了报告会。

陈教授此次报告的主要内容包括：无人机的发展现状、主要应用、跟踪控制以及避障控制等。随着无人机技术的发展，它的应用已遍及火灾救援、建筑检测、有害物质标本采集等领域。另外，无人机群表演以其视觉震撼也给无人机带来了很大的市场。

陈教授及其团队做了很多无人机的应用工作，陈教授在报告中展示了多个他主导的无人机应用的视频，包括：无人机查找火源并找到水源取水灭火，无人机群队形变换表演，桥梁检测，水空两用无人机，还有利用路径规划和跟踪控制技术实现的无人机写毛笔字的创意等。陈教授的。陈教授的报告开阔了我们的视野并让我们认识到创新的重要性，激发师生们去发现和实现无人机的更多应用。

最后，陈教授与到场的师生进行了交流互动，耐心解答了师生们所提出的学术问题并与到会师生代表合影。

附报告人简介：

Ben M. Chen is currently a Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He was a Provost's Chair Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, the National University of Singapore (NUS), where he was also serving as the Director of Control, Intelligent Systems and Robotics Area, and Head of Control Science Group, NUS Temasek Laboratories. His current research interests are in unmanned systems, robust control and control applications.

Dr. Chen is an IEEE Fellow. He has published more than 400 journal and conference articles, and a dozen research monographs in control theory and applications, unmanned systems and financial market modeling by Springer in New York and London. He had served on the editorial boards of several international journals including IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control and Automatica. He currently serves as an Editor-in-Chief of Unmanned Systems. Dr. Chen has received a number of research awards nationally and internationally. His research team has actively participated in international UAV competitions, and won many championships in the contests.