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Yamashita-An-Hamada Lab
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The lab builds robots that work in real-world environments using images, sensors, and AI.
AboutAbout the lab
Aiming for robots that work in real-world environments
The Yamashita-An-Hamada Lab conducts research aimed at realizing robots that work in real-world environments.
It uses image processing and sensor information processing, which reproduce the functions of human eyes and ears on computers, together with artificial intelligence, which serves as the robot's intelligence.
The lab also studies how humans understand their environment and act within it, and works on developing devices that support human actions.
The lab accepts undergraduate students from the Faculty of Engineering, Department of Precision Engineering, and graduate students from the Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, Department of Human and Engineered Environmental Studies.
Key terms
- SLAM
- A technology in which a robot estimates its own position and builds a map of its surroundings at the same time while moving
- Acoustic camera
- A camera that emits sound waves and creates an image of what is underwater based on the sound that bounces back
- Cone index
- A measure of the hardness and strength of the ground, obtained from the resistance felt when a rod with a cone-shaped tip is pushed into the ground
NewsLab news
A master's student received the Young Fellow Award for Outstanding Presentation from the Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers
The lab gave a robot demonstration at the Department of Precision Engineering guidance session for department selection at Komaba Campus
The lab was opened to visitors at the open lab events of the Department of Precision Engineering and the Department of Human and Engineered Environmental Studies
A student and a Project Assistant Professor received the SI2025 Outstanding Presentation Award from the Society of Instrument and Control Engineers
A master's student received the Dean's Award of the Graduate School of Frontier Sciences
ResearchResearch themes
The lab aims to realize robots that work in real-world environments, using image processing, sensor information processing, and artificial intelligence. With keywords such as robots, human interfaces, and understanding of humans and environments, it works broadly from fundamental theory to practical applications.
*Illustrative imageSLAM That Works Even with Glass
The lab studies methods that let a robot build a map while estimating its own position in environments containing transparent objects such as glass.
*Illustrative imageSeeing Underwater with Sound
In murky water or at long distances underwater, ordinary cameras cannot capture clear images. The lab studies underwater sensing with acoustic cameras, using methods such as deep learning.
*Illustrative imageSurveying from the Sky with a 360-Degree Camera
This is a method that mounts an omnidirectional camera (a camera that captures 360 degrees at once) on a drone to survey the surrounding environment from the air. It detects distinctive points in images and estimates the camera's position and orientation.
*Illustrative imageJudging Whether Ground Is Passable for Construction Machinery
When construction machinery travels over rough or soft ground, there is a risk of overturning or getting stuck. The lab judges whether the machinery can pass by examining stability through mechanical simulation and estimating the cone index with sensors.
MembersFaculty
The members of the Yamashita-An-Hamada Lab consist of faculty, project researchers, secretaries, doctoral, master's, and undergraduate students, exchange students, joint researchers, visiting collaborative researchers, and cooperating faculty.As of 2026
- ProfessorAtsushi YamashitaPublications ↗
- Associate ProfessorQi AnPublications ↗
- Project LecturerHiroyuki HamadaPublications ↗
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Report an errorAbout the images
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: “Image-Omnidirectional image computer lab” Sgeureka / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- SLAM That Works Even with Glass: “ActivMedia Pioneer 3-AT robot” Jiuguang Wang / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Seeing Underwater with Sound: “Mikhail Lermontov sonar” National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research（NIWA） / CC BY 3.0 (cropped)
- Surveying from the Sky with a 360-Degree Camera: “Aeussere Orientierung” Joachim Bäcker / Public domain (cropped)
- Judging Whether Ground Is Passable for Construction Machinery: “Akawad Dam” Abrahanjhon / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (ルイ笠原 純ユネス研究室): “Construction site excavator and truck” Neb / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Bio-Inspired Robotics Lab（BIRL）): “Soft Robotics” Oregon State University / CC BY-SA 2.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (
移動ロボティクス研究室): “Kilobot robot swarm” asuscreative / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped) - Related lab (Qi An研究室): “Biomechanics lab with force plate” Apfriesen / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
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