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Control Systems Engineering Lab
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A lab that studies control methods to make spacecraft and aircraft move exactly as desired.
AboutAbout the lab
Making spacecraft and aircraft move as intended, through control.
The Control Systems Engineering Lab studies control problems for spacecraft, aircraft, and similar vehicles.
It works on attitude control and landing motion of lunar and planetary probes, and on orbit and attitude control of spacecraft and aircraft.
The lab extends these results to ground vehicles such as motorcycles and transport robots.
It also studies control theory, the foundation of these problems.
Key terms
- Control theory
- The study of using mathematical equations to determine the inputs that make a machine or system behave as intended
- Social acceptance
- Whether a new technology will be accepted by people in society
- Partial differential equation
- An equation describing the behavior of a quantity that varies with both time and position. It is used to describe flows and vibrations
ResearchResearch themes
The lab studies control systems that make spacecraft and aircraft move as desired. Its work spans the leading edge of theory, applications with future missions in mind, and extensions to ground vehicles.
*Illustrative imageSocial acceptance of flying cars
The lab aims to develop a simulator that evaluates whether new aerial vehicles such as flying cars will be accepted by society, combining questionnaires with simple EEG measurement. It conducts experiments comparing how people perceive a real drone and a computer-graphics drone.
*Illustrative imageSwitching transport robots between automatic and manual modes
For transport robots used at aircraft manufacturing sites, the lab studies control for switching smoothly from autonomous driving to manual driving, and power-assist control that lets the robot be pushed by hand to move forward and backward and to turn.
*Illustrative imageLanding mechanisms and control for lunar and planetary probes
To keep lunar and planetary probes from tipping over when they land on rugged terrain, the lab studies various landing mechanisms and their control. It approaches shock absorption and tip-over prevention from the viewpoint of momentum transfer and energy conversion.
*Illustrative imageControl of fluid and elastic-body phenomena
The lab studies methods that use physical properties and machine learning to control hard-to-handle phenomena described by partial differential equations, such as fuel sloshing in tanks, flow around objects, and vibration of satellite solar array paddles.
MembersFaculty
The members of the Control Systems Engineering Lab consist of faculty, administrative assistants, and students in the doctoral program, the master's program, and the undergraduate program.As of 2026
- ProfessorSusumu Hara
- Associate ProfessorDaisuke Tsubakino
- Assistant ProfessorYasuo Sasaki
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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: “ESA lunar lander DLR at ILA - Day 2” DLR German Aerospace Center / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
- Social acceptance of flying cars: “Volocopter,IAA 2017, Frankfurt (1Y7A1911)” Matti Blume / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Switching transport robots between automatic and manual modes: “AGV - Automated Guided Vehicle” Marta Veverica / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Landing mechanisms and control for lunar and planetary probes: “Surface of the Moon as seen by Surveyor 3 Press release 67-H-462” NASA's Surveyor 3 lander / Public domain (cropped)
- Control of fluid and elastic-body phenomena: “Satellite solar panels” Ibex73 / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
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- Related lab (Mobility Systems Lab): “Waymo self-driving car front view.gk” Grendelkhan / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Machine Dynamics Lab): “Francis Turbine High flow” The original uploader was Stahlkocher at German Wikipedia. / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
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