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System Environment Informatics Lab
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The lab connects factories with computers and organizes the information needed for manufacturing.
AboutAbout the lab
Making the real and virtual worlds two sides of one coin.
The System Environment Informatics Lab studies how to connect the real world with the world inside computers, using three keys: systems, environments, and information.
It works on cyber fields, which are virtual worlds built inside computers that are identical to real-world settings such as factories, social infrastructure, and disaster sites.
It also studies product model data, which describes as data all the information needed from product design through production, inspection, maintenance, and disposal.
Rather than staying within the world of information, the lab works with real systems and real fields to explore new ways of shaping society and industry through information science.
Key terms
- Cyber field
- A space in which a virtual world closely resembling the real world is built inside a computer, allowing movement between the two
- Product model data
- Data that represents, in a form computers can handle, the information needed from product design through production, inspection, maintenance, and disposal
- NC data
- A sequence of numerical values that instructs a machine tool on its machining motions
ResearchResearch themes
The lab builds virtual worlds inside computers that are identical to real-world situations, and studies cyber fields in which the real and virtual worlds are two sides of the same coin. Centering on production systems, it aims to describe the information needed for manufacturing as data so that it can be exchanged correctly between any systems.
*Illustrative imageCyber Fields
The lab studies technology that makes real and virtual fields two sides of one coin, and the advancement of fields that this makes possible. Its targets include factory production systems, bridges as social infrastructure, and disaster-affected areas.
*Illustrative imageProduct Model Data
The lab studies how to describe, create, and use the information needed from product design through production, inspection, maintenance, and disposal. It aims to describe in detail, as data, even ambiguous information such as the intent designers put into a design and the tacit sense that engineers have shared with one another.
*Illustrative imageData Exchange between Systems
NC data that drives machine tools is standardized internationally, but discrepancies remain depending on the machine model and software version. The lab proposes data models for multitasking machines, and uses digital twins of machine tools to correct NC data and reduce errors on machined surfaces.
*Illustrative imageAssuring Data Quality
Product model data is used by many computer systems from design through disposal. The lab proposes mechanisms that guarantee no problems occur during data exchange, and mechanisms for exchanging information that verifies whether converted data is identical to the original.
MembersFaculty
- Associate ProfessorFumiki Tanaka
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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: “STEP-NC impeller” Loffredo / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Cyber Fields: “Arc welding robot 001” KOMATSU Ltd / CC BY-SA 2.1 jp (cropped)
- Product Model Data: “CAD model and CNC machined part” Mike1024 / Public domain (cropped)
- Data Exchange between Systems: “AMIR-FACTORY-6” AMIR MARINE / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Assuring Data Quality: “Caliper full view” Simon A. Eugster / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
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