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Kondo Lab
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The lab researches electric mobility, making things that run on electricity smarter and more efficient.
AboutAbout the lab
Using electric power wisely to drive moving machines
The Kondo Lab studies how to use electricity smartly in electric mobility systems, with power electronics as its foundational technology.
Railways have long been electrically driven, and electric drive is now spreading to automobiles and aircraft as well.
Electrifying moving machines requires technologies that deliver power supply, electrical energy storage, power conversion, and electrical-mechanical energy conversion with high precision and speed, using compact, lightweight equipment.
The lab was established in April 2018 with the arrival of Prof. Kondo, and advances practical research through joint research with companies and other organizations.
Key terms
- Power electronics
- Technology for freely controlling electric power. It achieves highly efficient, precise, and fast power conversion through hardware and control
- Induction motor
- A representative AC motor. It is widely used in industry and is also used to drive railway vehicles
- Wireless power transfer
- A method of sending power without connecting wires. Coils face each other and exchange high-frequency power
NewsLab news
A lab student won a poster award in the graduate course “Special Exercise B”
A master's student won an Incentive Paper Award at the 27th International Conference on Electrical Machines and Systems
Prof. Kondo was named a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical Engineers of Japan
A lab student won a poster award in the FY2023 graduate course “Special Exercise B”
ResearchResearch themes
Making wide use of electrical energy, which is efficient to transmit and convert, requires hardware and control that achieve highly efficient, precise, and fast power conversion. The lab believes that research on electric mobility systems leads to promoting the efficient use of electrical energy in society.
*Illustrative imageMotor Drive Systems and Motors
Induction motors are regarded as a mature technology, but there is still room to improve their performance if they are designed as an integrated drive system that includes the inverter. The lab also works on torque control for high-speed rotation of permanent magnet synchronous motors, which are expected to be used in electric vehicles and next-generation electric aircraft.
*Illustrative imageApplications of Energy Storage Devices and Fuel Cells, and Power Control
In an electric mobility system, the onboard equipment and the power supply system together form a single power-use network. The lab studies technologies that use high-performance secondary batteries, electric double-layer capacitors, and fuel cells to save energy in railway vehicles and automobiles and to cut peak power.
*Illustrative imageWireless Power Transfer Technology
Because wireless power transfer sends power without contact, it has many advantages as a way to supply power to electric mobility. In principle it requires high frequencies, so reducing the reactive power of the coils and improving the efficiency of power conversion circuits are challenges, and the lab studies design and control methods for them.
MembersFaculty
The Kondo Lab's members consist of faculty, secretaries, visiting researchers, and doctoral, master's, and undergraduate students.As of 2026
- ProfessorKeiichiro Kondo
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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: “StrassenbahnPantograph” ProhibitOnions / Public domain (cropped)
- Motor Drive Systems and Motors: “Yauza 209 (motor) rotor 02” Retired electrician / CC0 (cropped)
- Applications of Energy Storage Devices and Fuel Cells, and Power Control: “Alarm clock mainspring” Chetvorno / CC0 (cropped)
- Wireless Power Transfer Technology: “Copper coil with six turns” Christiankral / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
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