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Hatanaka Lab
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A control theory lab that coordinates human, social, and machine systems.
AboutAbout the lab
Control that coordinates people, society, and machines
The Hatanaka Lab studies large-scale systems in which information (cyber), physical, and human elements influence one another.
It explores the fundamental principles for coordinating people and society with networked control systems through distributed decision-making.
The main application areas are smart agriculture, smart technologies for the skies and seas, and energy management.
Beyond theory, the lab works on the social implementation of robot networks and human-robot collaboration through interdisciplinary joint research.
Key terms
- Cyber-physical systems
- Systems in which the information world (cyber) is connected to real machines and environments (physical), and the two operate as one.
- Distributed decision-making
- An approach in which there is no central command unit coordinating the whole; instead, each element makes its own judgments, and the system operates as a whole.
- Social implementation
- Turning technology developed through research into a form that can be used in real society, and adopting it there.
NewsLab news
A paper was accepted to IEEE Trans. Comput. Soc. Syst.
A member received the Vision Co-creation Encouragement Award at Vision Matching 2026.
Prof. Hatanaka and colleagues published a book on cooperative control of networked systems.
A student received the Dept. SCE Outstanding Presentation Award.
A student received the Science Tokyo Outstanding Student Award.
ResearchResearch themes
The lab studies the fundamental principles for operating large-scale systems, which add human and social elements to cyber-physical systems, in an optimal and robust way. Its main application areas are smart agriculture, smart technologies for the skies and seas, and energy management, and through interdisciplinary joint research it also works on measurement and control of plants in plant factories.
*Illustrative imageCyber-Physical-Social Systems
The lab deals with large-scale systems in which information, physical, and human and social elements influence one another. It explores principles for operating the whole system optimally and robustly through distributed decision-making.
*Illustrative imageSystems in Which Humans and Machines Cooperate
The lab studies mechanisms for coordinating people with networked control systems. Through interdisciplinary joint research, it also works on the social implementation of human-robot collaboration.
*Illustrative imageNetworked Robotics
This research connects multiple robots and drones through a network and operates them together. The lab also conducts experiments on control in which multiple drones continuously monitor farms and vineyards from above.
MembersFaculty
The members of the Hatanaka Lab consist of faculty and doctoral, master's, and undergraduate students.
- ProfessorTakeshi HatanakaPublications ↗
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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: “Agricultural drone in use on rice field near Nisoshi, Aomori” Benlisquare / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Cyber-Physical-Social Systems: “Xiamen and Quanzhou” ISS Expedition 62 crew / Public domain (cropped)
- Systems in Which Humans and Machines Cooperate: “UR16e robot arm” Auledas / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Networked Robotics: “Agricultural drone spraying on paddy field” Shreesha Sharma / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Ishizaki Lab): “High voltage transmission towers and lines” Stefan Andrej Shambora (St_A_Sh) / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Imura Lab): “Berlin Air Route Traffic Control Center, 1987” Thomas Farr / Public domain (cropped)
- Related lab (Hayakawa Lab): “Neighborhood of attractor of discretized Lorenz system. XYZ(28) plane” German A. Chernykh & Irina A. Chernykh / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Yamakita Lab): “Robi by DeAGOSTINI” Tokumeigakarinoaoshima / CC0 (cropped)
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