Research
GIFT-SMART Center

“SMART”: Smart Manufacturing with AI and Reliability Technology

About the Center

Focusing on the industrial and technological transformation on "AI + manufacturing" for renewable energy system equipment, this initiative explores cutting-edge smart manufacturing technologies characterized by ultra-high efficiency, reliability, intelligence, and low carbon consumption. It conducts research on key scientific theories and technologies, including high-reliability design of system form-performance coordination, highly efficient and smart extreme manufacturing, quality inspection and control, as well as intelligent operation and maintenance. The goal is to drive technological leaps and high-quality development in smart manufacturing across industries such as automotive, energy storage, photovoltaics, nuclear power, aviation, and shipbuilding.

 

Chief Scientist

Jun Ni

 

Director

Sun Jin

Director

Mian Li

 Executive Director

 

Core Members

Jun Ni 

Distinguished Professor

Intelligent maintenance of large industrial systems; Manufacturing operation optimization; Manufacturing process modeling, analysis and design; Precision Engineering and Metrology; Quality control methods

Sun Jin

Chair Professor

Intelligent Manufacturing; Manufacturing Quality Control; Assembly Technology Development; Industrial Application

Mian Li

Professor

Reliability Design of Mechatronic Systems; Intelligent Control Theory and Applications; Industial AI

 

Tingting Yu

Associate Professor

Micro/nanorobotics; Micro/nanofabrication

 

 

Yang  Liu  

Associate Professor

Smart Logistics and Transportation; Smart Supply Chain; AI for Energy Storage; Cyber-Physical Systems

Jing Zou  

Assistant Research Professor

Manufacturing system modeling 

and control

Ruixiang Zheng

Assistant Research Professor

Energy system reliability design 

Bohan Feng

Lecturer

Robotic manufacturing

 

 

Research Directions

1. Reliability Modeling and Intelligent Design for Form-Performance Coordination: system reliability design, form-performance coordination for modeling, fault analysis, and intelligent operation and maintenance.

2. Flexible Manufacturing System Modeling and Intelligent Control: quality inspection, lean modeling, intelligent process and procedure control, energy management, etc.

3. Highly Efficient and Reliable Embodied Intelligent Manufacturing Technology: highly efficient and reliable embodied intelligence technologies under complex environments, such as new energy vehicles and aerospace applications, including in-situ assembly, inspection, transportation, etc.

4. Disruptive Intelligent Manufacturing Technologies with Multi-physics Fusion: disruptive manufacturing and atomic-scale manufacturing technologies that integrate physical, chemical, mechanical, and information fields, such as micro/nano robotics, spatter-free welding, and adaptive bonding, etc.

 

Selected Project

· Project 9-sigma

GIFT-SMART Center is continuously recruiting new members and sincerely invites you to join!

Contact us: shan.su@sjtu.edu.cn