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Systems Engineering Lab
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The lab applies robot systems to medicine, welfare, and sports.
AboutAbout the lab
Robot systems for medicine, welfare, and sports.
The Systems Engineering Lab conducts research and development to apply robot systems to medicine, welfare, and sports.
Robotics is a field that brings together a variety of technologies, such as mechanisms, control, sensors, and software.
Professor Kiguchi's research areas are biorobotics, human-assist robots, rehabilitation robots, and the application of robots to medicine.
Associate Professor Nishikawa's research areas are sports robots, pneumatic systems, musculoskeletal systems, and biologically inspired robots.
Assistant Professor Tsuji's research areas are optimization algorithms (such as swarm intelligence, evolutionary computation, and metaheuristics) and their application to engineering and logistics problems.
Key terms
- Kinesthetic Illusion
- An illusion produced by applying vibration stimulation to a muscle tendon. It creates a sense of movement and can also affect intended movement.
- Tonic Vibration Reflex (TVR)
- A reflex produced by applying mechanical vibration stimulation to a muscle tendon. It can generate actual movement.
- Tremor
- A rhythmic, oscillatory involuntary movement of antagonist muscles that work complementarily. Known as unintentional shaking.
- Myoelectric Signal
- Muscle activity measured from the skin surface. The upper-limb assist robot detects it in order to operate.
NewsLab news
A master's student, Professor Kiguchi, and Associate Professor Nishikawa received the Outstanding Interdisciplinary Research Award from the Robotics and Mechatronics Division of the Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers
A doctoral student received the Outstanding Presentation Award at the 17th Young Researchers' Meeting of the Robotics Society of Japan
Professor Kazuo Kiguchi received the MHS Lifelong Research Award
A presentation by Associate Professor Nishikawa, Professor Kiguchi, and others received the Best Paper Award at MHS2025
Introduction to Sports Robotics (in Japanese), a book edited and co-written by Associate Professor Satoshi Nishikawa, was published
ResearchResearch themes
The lab develops assist devices, rehabilitation robots, and sports robots based on robot technology. Its research covers power-assist robots, cognitive assist, tremor suppression, rehabilitation, micro-surgery robots, robotic prosthetic hands, and sports robots.
*Illustrative imagePower-Assist Robots
The lab develops upper-limb assist robots that support people whose upper-limb movement is reduced by aging or disability. The robots operate by detecting myoelectric signals, which reflect muscle activity and are measured from the skin surface, and the lab is also studying a function by which the robot detects hand and finger tremor and cancels it. For lower-limb assist robots, it develops technology that detects the risk of tripping and falling in advance in order to prevent it.
*Illustrative imageCognitive Assist
The lab studies "cognitive assist," in which a robot corrects the wearer's movement when they make a dangerous or inappropriate motion. Besides research using upper- and lower-limb exoskeleton robots, it conducts basic research that applies kinesthetic illusion and the tonic vibration reflex (TVR) to the movement of each joint to clarify their effects on movement, aiming at applications such as rehabilitation and tremor suppression.
*Illustrative imageTremor Suppression
Tremor is a rhythmic, oscillatory involuntary movement of antagonist muscles that work complementarily, and is known as unintentional shaking. The lab studies a tremor suppression method that uses the tonic vibration reflex (TVR), induced by mechanical vibration stimulation, to generate movement in antiphase to the tremor.
*Illustrative imageSports Robots
To help people acquire sports skills, the lab develops lightweight powered suits that use pneumatic artificial muscles and interfere little with human movement. It is also developing agile humanoid robots that perform sports movements using pneumatic actuation, and it investigates how robots should intervene to bring out human movement.
MembersFaculty
The members of the Systems Engineering Lab consist of faculty, secretaries, doctoral, master's, and bachelor's students, and special auditing students.
- ProfessorKazuo Kiguchi
- Associate ProfessorSatoshi Nishikawa
- Assistant ProfessorYasutaka Tsuji
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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: “SingularityU The Netherlands Summit )” Sebastiaan ter Burg / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
- Power-Assist Robots: “Honda Walking Assist Device with Bodyweight Support System front 2013 Tokyo Motor Show” Morio / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Cognitive Assist: “Thomas Pesquet training in the Telerobotics lab of ESTEC, in the Netherlands ( )” ESA_events / CC BY-SA 2.0 (cropped)
- Tremor Suppression: “Spiral drawing of Essential Tremor patient” Svenskbygderna, Undescribed / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Sports Robots: “Artificial knee ( )” Magnus Hagdorn / CC BY-SA 2.0 (cropped)
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