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Mechanical Information System Control Lab
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The lab aims to extract the essence of control from a wide range of subjects and use it to create new mechanical systems.
AboutAbout the lab
Extracting the essence of control from diverse subjects.
The Mechanical Information System Control Lab studies how to extract the essence of control from a wide range of subjects.
Its approaches include information and communication, optimization, biomimetics, autonomous decentralized systems, and AI.
With the extracted essence at its core, the lab aims to create new mechanical systems.
Newly established in April 2025, the lab also goes by the name Sawada-Sugimoto Lab.
Key terms
- Control
- The mechanisms and theory for making machines and systems operate as intended.
- Biomimetics
- An approach that takes the mechanisms and movements of living things as models and applies them to the design of machines and systems.
- Autonomous decentralization
- An approach in which no single point commands the whole; instead, individual elements make their own decisions, and the system as a whole functions as a result.
ResearchResearch themes
The Mechanical Information System Control Lab approaches a wide range of subjects through information and communication, optimization, biomimetics, autonomous decentralized systems, AI, and other perspectives, aiming to extract the essence of control. It then seeks to apply this essence to the creation of new mechanical systems.
*Illustrative imageControl of Diverse Systems
The lab studies control theory and its applications for a wide range of systems.
*Illustrative imageMovement Mechanisms of Living Things and Robots
The lab approaches the mechanisms that produce diverse movements from both robotics and biology.
*Illustrative imageCooperative Control of Distributed Systems
The lab studies cooperative control and decision-making by distributed systems.
*Illustrative imageNext-Generation Mobility Systems
The lab works on the research and development of next-generation mobility systems.
MembersFaculty
The members of the Mechanical Information System Control Lab are faculty, project faculty, and administrative assistants.As of 2025
- ProfessorKenji Sawada
- Associate ProfessorYasuhiro Sugimoto
- Assistant ProfessorYuichiro Sueoka
- Project ProfessorShunji Sugie
- Project Assistant ProfessorKazuki Ito
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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: “Controlling robots ESA376864” European Space Agency / CC BY-SA 3.0 igo (cropped)
- Control of Diverse Systems: “Automatic Control System” 长城建机编辑处 / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Movement Mechanisms of Living Things and Robots: “Animal locomotion. Plate 591” BPL / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
- Cooperative Control of Distributed Systems: “Freedom Shield 26- OPFOR’s Drone Swarm (9564947)” U.S. Army National Guard photo by Sgt. Keith Allen / Public domain (cropped)
- Next-Generation Mobility Systems: “Svan M2- A quadruped robot” Manu amritanshu / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Mechanical Dynamics Lab): “Khepera robot” No machine-readable author provided. Stephane.magnenat assumed (based on copyright claims). / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Intelligent Machine Systems Lab): “PR2 robot with advanced grasping hands” Oleg Alexandrov / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Real-World Intelligent Systems and Control Lab): “Border Collie sheepdog trial” Scot Campbell / CC BY-SA 2.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Bio-Machine Fusion Wet Robotics Lab): “Rapid Mixing Using a Winding Channel” Kimbalm / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
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