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Mobile Robotics Lab
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A lab that explores the intelligence of motion in robots and humans and works to support people.
AboutAbout the lab
Exploring the intelligence of motion in robots and humans
The Mobile Robotics Lab studies the nature of intelligence in robots and humans that are capable of locomotion and movement.
It treats people moving through space, robots that support people, and the environments in which the two interact as a single integrated system.
Using methods such as motion planning and optimization, the lab conducts research in robotics, service engineering, and production systems engineering.
The lab aims to develop methods for designing systems in which many agents, including humans, move and act (multi-agent systems).
Key terms
- Multi-agent system
- A system in which many entities that make their own decisions and act, such as robots and humans, come together and work cooperatively
- AGV
- A vehicle that carries goods in factories and warehouses, running along set routes without a human driver. Also called an automated guided vehicle
- Musculoskeletal model
- A computer model that reproduces the shapes and movements of human bones and muscles, making it possible to simulate body movement
NewsLab news
A student received the Best Presentation Award at the Japan Society for Precision Engineering (JSPE) Spring Meeting
A master's student received the Young Researcher Outstanding Presentation Fellow Award from the Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers (JSME)
A project researcher (now a Project Lecturer) received the Research Encouragement Award, part of the Academic Encouragement Awards, from the Society of Instrument and Control Engineers (SICE)
A project researcher received the Best Presentation Award at the Japan Society for Precision Engineering (JSPE) Spring Meeting
Professor Ota received the Distinguished Service Award from the Japan Society for Precision Engineering (JSPE)
ResearchResearch themes
The lab aims to uncover the intelligence and the motion and locomotion functions of robots that interact with and support people, and to build a design theory for multi-agent systems that include humans. Current research covers three areas: "Multi-Agent Systems and Robot System Design," "Robotics and Production Systems Involving and Supporting Humans," and "Human Analysis and Embodied Systems Science."
*Illustrative imagePlanning the motion of many robots
The lab studies how to decide the number and routes of multiple AGVs that carry goods in warehouses, motion planning for robot arms, and methods for planning how to assign tasks to many robots.
*Illustrative imageRobots and production systems that support people
Projects include a patient robot that nursing students use to practice transferring patients to wheelchairs, the use of VR to extract expert inspectors' inspection skills, and support for identifying the causes of production line failures.
*Illustrative imageUnderstanding how the human body moves
Using musculoskeletal model simulations, the lab investigates how people maintain posture and walk. It also studies a method for assessing the cognitive function of patients with Parkinson's disease from gait data, as well as rehabilitation using VR.
MembersFaculty
The Mobile Robotics Lab consists of faculty members, researchers, doctoral, master's, and undergraduate students, and secretaries.As of 2026
- ProfessorJun OtaPublications ↗
- Project LecturerKohei KaminishiPublications ↗
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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: “Kilobot robot swarm” asuscreative / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Planning the motion of many robots: “Tugger AGV with trailers, courtesy of Egemin Automation Inc.” AGVExpertJS / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Robots and production systems that support people: “Wire harness for aftermarket head unit” Zuzu / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Understanding how the human body moves: “Gait laboratory” D. Gordon E. Robertson / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (山下・安・濱田研究室): “Image-Omnidirectional image computer lab” Sgeureka / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Qi An研究室): “Biomechanics lab with force plate” Apfriesen / 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 (i-Constructionシステム学寄付講座): “Mangere Bridge Construction East Side” Ingolfson / Public domain (cropped)
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