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Mobility Systems Lab
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A lab that uses systems and control engineering to realize autonomous driving and robots that coexist with people.
AboutAbout the lab
Toward a future in which intelligent machines and humans coexist.
The Suzuki Lab studies mobility, meaning vehicles, robots, and other moving systems, from the perspective of systems and control engineering.
Keeping in mind the “coexistence of intelligent machines and humans,” which will be essential in the society of the future, the lab works on autonomous driving, driver assistance, and autonomous control of mobile robots.
The lab also addresses social-system challenges such as transportation and energy management.
It values a balance between theory and implementation, and is involved in many research projects and joint research with private companies.
Key terms
- Systems and control engineering
- The field that represents the workings of machines and social systems as mathematical models and devises ways to make them behave as desired.
- Personal mobility
- Small one-person vehicles, expected to move in the same space as pedestrians.
- V2H
- Vehicle to Home. A system that lets electricity stored in an electric vehicle's battery be used at home.
NewsLab news
Assistant Professor Honda received the Young Researcher Encouragement Award from the System Integration Division of the Society of Instrument and Control Engineers (SICE)
A student received the Best Paper Award at SICE SSI2024
A PhD student received the Outstanding Presentation Award from the Society of Automotive Engineers of Japan
Professor Suzuki, Associate Professor Okuda, and colleagues received the Paper Award from the Society of Instrument and Control Engineers (SICE)
ResearchResearch themes
Keeping in mind the “coexistence of intelligent machines and humans,” which will be essential in the society of the future, the lab tackles mobility challenges from the perspective of systems and control engineering. It deals with challenges at many levels, from social systems such as transportation and energy to making moving systems themselves intelligent.
*Illustrative imageMobility that coexists with people
Taking the view of understanding people deeply and applying that understanding to control, the lab works on modeling the judgments and movements of vulnerable road users, autonomous driving that accounts for blind spots, and making personal mobility intelligent.
*Illustrative imageNew motion control for moving systems
Looking beyond autonomous driving, the lab proposes driving control that no one has yet achieved. Targets include driving control of EVs whose four wheels are driven independently, stabilization of high-speed drifting in cars, and platooning.
*Illustrative imageMobility that handles rough terrain
Focusing on legged robots, the lab develops physical multi-legged mobile robots that can walk on uneven terrain, and works on remote operation using VR technology.
*Illustrative imageConnecting the power grid and mobility
From the viewpoint of linking power networks and mobility through EVs, the lab studies data-based vehicle movement models, V2H design, and the design of EV-sharing systems.
MembersFaculty
The Suzuki Lab's members consist of faculty, secretaries, collaborators, postdocs, and PhD, master's, and undergraduate students.As of 2026
- ProfessorTatsuya Suzuki
- Associate ProfessorHiroyuki Okuda
- Assistant ProfessorKohei Honda
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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: “Waymo self-driving car front view.gk” Grendelkhan / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Mobility that coexists with people: “Strand street pedestrian crossing 3” Mission for Inner City Cape Town / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
- New motion control for moving systems: “Drifting car on racetrack” Duniti / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Mobility that handles rough terrain: “Sechsbeiniger Laufroboter LAURON aus dem Jahr 1995 im Deutschen Museum in München entwickelt vom Forschungszentrum Informatik, Karlsruhe” Kelsaka / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Connecting the power grid and mobility: “Home charging 110v BMW i3 CRI 8134” Mariordo (Mario Roberto Durán Ortiz) / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Control Systems Engineering Lab): “ESA lunar lander DLR at ILA - Day 2” DLR German Aerospace Center / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Thermal Control Engineering Lab (2)): “Iss071e582160 (Sept. 3, 2024) --- NASA astronaut and Expedition 71 Flight Engineer Jeanette Epps replaces and cleans research components inside the Destiny laboratory module's Combustion Integrated Rack” NASA Johnson Space Center / Public domain (cropped)
- Related lab (Thermal Control Engineering Lab (1)): “NASA’s Pandora Mission Closer To Probing Alien Atmospheres (SVS14754)” NASA/Weston Maughan, BCT / Public domain (cropped)
- Related lab (Data-Driven Systems Lab): “Macintosh Computer Lab” Mbrickn / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
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