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Namiki Lab
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The lab studies intelligent robots that move dexterously using high-speed vision.
AboutAbout the lab
Seeing faster than humans, moving with dexterity.
The Namiki Lab studies high-speed vision and how to use it in order to improve the task performance of intelligent robots.
It builds high-speed vision systems that carry out everything from image acquisition to processing and recognition 500 to 1,000 times per second.
Through visual feedback control, which returns the results to the robot immediately, the lab aims for fast and dexterous motion.
The research extends to manipulation of deformable objects such as cloth, paper, and string, as well as sports robots, remote operation, and drone control.
Key terms
- High-speed vision
- High-speed vision: a system that carries out everything from image acquisition to processing and recognition several hundred to a thousand times per second
- Visual feedback control
- Visual feedback control: control that immediately uses what a camera sees to correct a robot's motion
- Manipulation
- Manipulation: operations such as grasping and moving objects with a robot's hands and arms
NewsLab news
A paper on EEG data generation was published in Chaos, Solitons & Fractals
A paper on EEG analysis was published in Information Fusion
A paper on video stabilization was published in Sensors
A paper on EEG analysis was published in Knowledge-Based Systems
A student received the Research Encouragement Award of the Academic Encouragement Awards from the Society of Instrument and Control Engineers
ResearchResearch themes
Vision carries a wide variety of information about the environment and is an essential sense for achieving human-like dexterous work. To improve the task performance of intelligent robots, the lab studies systems capable of high-speed visual recognition on the order of kHz, and high-speed visual feedback control of robot manipulators.
*Illustrative imageHigh-Speed Vision
This is an integrated system that carries out everything from image acquisition to processing and recognition at 500 Hz to 1 kHz, far beyond human ability. Because results are produced on the spot, building it into automatically controlled devices such as robots can greatly improve the performance of visual feedback control.
*Illustrative imageMulti-Camera Vision Robots
With a camera placed only above, self-occlusion occurs, in which the robot's own body hides the target. The lab builds a robot vision system with many small high-speed cameras arranged over the entire body of the robot, which recognizes its surroundings in 3D without blind spots.
*Illustrative imageHigh-Speed Manipulation
Smooth motion like juggling serves as a model case for integrating intelligence and skill in robots. Aiming at manipulation techniques that combine dexterity and speed, the lab has developed systems such as a dual-arm, high-speed, multi-fingered hand-arm.
*Illustrative imageManipulation of Deformable Objects
Soft objects change shape during manipulation, so seeing and manipulating must be done at the same time. Using origami as the target, the lab combines a physics simulator of paper with 3D shape measurement and aims for a robot that can carry out complex paper folding such as making an origami crane.
MembersFaculty
The members of the Namiki Lab consist of faculty, administrative assistants, and doctoral, master's, and undergraduate students.As of 2026
- ProfessorAkio Namiki
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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: “Robotic ROV Manipulator Arm 3” BPLINFO / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- High-Speed Vision: “IN Series high speed camera” Chrisjc77 / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Multi-Camera Vision Robots: “Humanoider-Roboter-DASA” Sven Volkens / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- High-Speed Manipulation: “Robotic Claw ROV Gripper” BPLINFO / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Manipulation of Deformable Objects: “Origami-crane” Andreas Bauer Origami-Kunst / CC BY-SA 2.5 (cropped)
- Related lab (Autonomous Control Systems Lab): “DJI Mavic 4 Pro Drone in Flight Napeague New York” Hayden Soloviev / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Medical and Welfare Support Robotics Lab (Kawamura Lab)): “Air Force's first robotic surgery training course established at Keesler 161021-F-BD983-015” Kemberly Groue / Public domain (cropped)
- Related lab (Yu Lab): “043 MNACTEC (Terrassa), exposició temporal Robots, àmbit dels robots humanoides” Enric / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Systems and Control Lab): “HQ-90 aircraft arrived and assembled at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center (AFRC )” NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center / NASA/Ken Ulbrich / Public domain (cropped)
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