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Control Engineering Lab
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The lab uses control engineering and robotics to aim for systems that are useful in industrial and welfare settings.
AboutAbout the lab
Useful systems through control and robotics.
The Control Engineering Lab advances the methods and theory of control engineering and robotics, aiming to realize control and computing systems that are useful in industrial and welfare settings.
Its research covers a wide range of topics, including new robot mechanisms, control technologies for robots, and applications of control engineering to healthcare and welfare.
Research and education in control engineering, robotics, and mechatronics are carried out by Professor Yamamoto and Associate Professor Nakashima.
On the lab's website, it is introduced under the names Division of Control Engineering and Division of Medical-Engineering Collaboration and Healthy Longevity.
Key terms
- FES
- Functional electrical stimulation. A technique that applies electrical stimulation to the skin surface to deliberately contract muscles.
- Fall Risk Assessment
- An assessment that safely indicates in advance how likely and how dangerous a fall is. The lab aims to establish a new metric based on actual fall-avoidance movements.
- Assistance Mechanics Model
- A model that expresses caregiving movements mechanically, using the wheelchair operation of skilled caregivers as the reference.
ResearchResearch themes
The lab works on a wide range of themes, from engineering evaluation of human movement to robots that support nursing care and surgery, and soft robots. The themes introduced here relate to human falls, postural stability, rehabilitation, and caregiving assistance.
*Illustrative imageSlip-and-Fall Risk Assessment
The lab is developing a treadmill-based walking system that reproduces slip-induced falls on outdoor surfaces with different friction levels. It aims to establish a new fall-risk metric based on actual fall-avoidance movements.
*Illustrative imageStanding Stability Assessment
The lab is developing a method to quantitatively evaluate human standing stability, using a mechanical perturbation device based on a dropping tilted plate together with system identification techniques. Against the background of falls among older adults being a social problem, it examines the more fundamental ability to stabilize standing posture.
*Illustrative imagePrecise Control with FES
FES (functional electrical stimulation) is a technique that applies electrical stimulation to the skin surface to deliberately contract muscles, and it is used in rehabilitation and other areas. This research aims to move human joints passively and precisely using FES.
*Illustrative imageAssessing the Burden on Wheelchair Caregivers
To reduce the physical burden on caregivers who push wheelchairs, the lab analyzes the techniques of skilled caregivers from an engineering perspective. It builds a mechanical model of caregiving assistance based on those techniques as a reference, and aims to develop a wheelchair assistance training system based on the model.
MembersFaculty
The members of the Control Engineering Lab consist of faculty, technical officers, technical staff, and doctoral, master's, and bachelor's students.As of 2026
- ProfessorMotoji Yamamoto
- Associate ProfessorYasutaka Nakashima
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The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “ASEA and ABB industrial robots” Dependability / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Slip-and-Fall Risk Assessment: “Land slip, Canty Bay - geograph.org.uk - 964810” Richard Webb / CC BY-SA 2.0 (cropped)
- Standing Stability Assessment: “SCAT Balance Testing One Leg Stance” Augustine11 / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Precise Control with FES: “Compex Functional Electrical Stimulation (FES) Device” Crocodilesareforwimps / CC0 (cropped)
- Assessing the Burden on Wheelchair Caregivers: “IRAKOZE SAMUEL IN HIS WHEELCHAIR TO SCHOOL” Mutiganda / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
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