Welcome to the homepage of the Department of Cognitive Mechatronics Engineering at Pusan National University.

 

This graduate school was established in 2009 through the World Class University project organized by the Ministry of Education, Science, and Technology. Comprising renowned international scholars and excellent professors, our department specializes in Nano-Bio-Info-Cogno (NBIC) convergence research related to cognitive signals through biological imaging. We aim to apply this research to a wide range of future intelligent machines and electronic systems. In 2013, we successfully expanded our research infrastructure to the healthcare field through the BK21 PLUS project. Through the BK21 FOUR Innovation Human Resources Development Project selected in 2020, we are focusing on research in cognitive mechatronics-based personalized healthcare, which is expected to be a core interdisciplinary technology in the future.

 

Cognitive mechatronics engineering involves measuring the brain signals that occur when people think and act. It transforms brain signals corresponding to human commands into information signals to move external devices. Based on the understanding of neural activities in the brain's system related to cognition and emotional functions, we research future technologies aimed at enhancing the quality of life and extending lifespan through the activation and regeneration of brain cells via internal and external stimuli.

 

Furthermore, cognitive mechatronics engineering technology can expand into the field of healthcare systems, understanding and improving sensory perception abilities, and providing personalized early/permanent/self-diagnosis monitoring information remotely. In our department, advanced tools such as nano sensors and optical imaging devices are actively being developed as tools to understand cognitive processes. Through the understanding of these cognitive processes, we expect brain signal-based mechatronics application fields to emerge that surpass the limitations of existing machinery and electronic systems, such as advanced intelligent vehicles and remote robots operated by thought alone.

 

Through the operation of the BK21 FOUR Innovation Human Resources Development Project (Cognitive Mechatronics-based Personalized Healthcare Education and Research Team), real-time cognitive technology for monitoring mental health and psychological states and sensory perception technology (vision, hearing, touch, taste, smell) for real-time monitoring of physiological health are being developed. The goal of this research is to maximize individual health status cognition/diagnosis abilities by developing electronic/mechanical (mechatronics) tools. We aim to expand this research area to a comprehensive monitoring and diagnostic interpretation of both internal health status and external environment/safety status using artificial intelligence (A.I.) cognitive technology. Additionally, our research scope aims to extend to molecular-level biochemical big data sensing systems.

 

For further information, please visit our department's official website.

Prof. Kyhm, Kwangseuk, Ph.D.
Chair, Department of Cogno-Mechatronics Engineering