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Yoshinori Sawae, Professor
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The Design Engineering Lab focuses on soft advanced materials such as biomaterials and soft matter, working to discover and clarify mechanical phenomena and to develop new functional materials. Through experiments, it studies resins used in artificial joints, hydrogels intended for use as artificial cartilage, and resin sealing materials for hydrogen stations. It also explores the mechanism of superlubrication in biological joints, that is, why human joints move so smoothly. Through joint research with overseas research groups, the lab promotes exchange, including inviting researchers and sending students abroad.
Kazunari Shinagawa, Professor
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The Materials Processing Lab studies plastic working, in which metals are deformed by external force, and powder metallurgy processes, in which metal and ceramic powders are consolidated. The lab originally started with research on plastic working, and in recent years it has been actively pursuing research in newer processing fields such as powder metallurgy. Its research covers not only experiments that investigate processing phenomena but also the use of analytical methods and application-oriented studies. In addition to Kyushu University students, the lab welcomes international students and students from other universities, those who wish to go on to a PhD, and those who wish to visit the lab.
Syuhei Kurokawa, Professor
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The Precision Machining Lab studies precision machining based on high-throughput, high-precision, giga-range machining and measurement technologies. In ultra-precision machining and measurement of machine element components, the lab works on analysis of gear meshing transmission error, measurement of the shape and roughness of engineering surfaces, nanomachining of micro components, and planarization by CMP. In machining and measurement using light, the lab works on machining with femtosecond lasers, non-contact optical measurement of semiconductor wafer surfaces, and particle size measurement of nanoparticles using fluorescent nanoprobes. The lab also works on the development of soft gears and on building design and fabrication technologies for multi-material compliant mechanisms and their medical applications.
Kenji Tahara, Professor
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The Human-Centered Robotics Lab uses robotics technologies grounded in mechanical engineering to study the motor intelligence of the human body. The lab works both on understanding motor intelligence mathematically and mechanically, and on its engineering applications. Recent news items introduce research on estimating the state of the fingers of a flexible multi-fingered robot hand using proximity sensors mounted on the fingers. They also introduce research on extracting the information needed for a task from high-speed sensor data and using it for motion planning of industrial robots.
Motoji Yamamoto, Professor
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The Control Engineering Lab advances the methods and theory of control engineering and robotics, aiming to realize control and computing systems that are useful in industrial and welfare settings. Its research covers a wide range of topics, including new robot mechanisms, control technologies for robots, and applications of control engineering to healthcare and welfare. Research and education in control engineering, robotics, and mechatronics are carried out by Professor Yamamoto and Associate Professor Nakashima. On the lab's website, it is introduced under the names Division of Control Engineering and Division of Medical-Engineering Collaboration and Healthy Longevity.
Kazuo Kiguchi, Professor
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The Systems Engineering Lab conducts research and development to apply robot systems to medicine, welfare, and sports. Robotics is a field that brings together a variety of technologies, such as mechanisms, control, sensors, and software. Professor Kiguchi's research areas are biorobotics, human-assist robots, rehabilitation robots, and the application of robots to medicine. Associate Professor Nishikawa's research areas are sports robots, pneumatic systems, musculoskeletal systems, and biologically inspired robots. Assistant Professor Tsuji's research areas are optimization algorithms (such as swarm intelligence, evolutionary computation, and metaheuristics) and their application to engineering and logistics problems.
Shinya Kijimoto, Professor
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The Mechanical Wave and Acoustics Lab studies active acoustic control and magnet-based vibration suppression methods, with the aim of realizing comfortable living environments. It also works on sound analysis methods and on flexible actuators that use magnetic force. Aiming at a society where people and machines coexist comfortably, the lab also studies comfort evaluation through biosignal processing and the analysis of acoustic and wave propagation inside the body.
Osamu Moriue, Professor
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The Engine Systems Lab studies next-generation internal combustion engines by combining experimental investigation of phenomena with numerical simulation. The lab works on advanced combustion technologies such as HCCI, pulse jet ignition, and hydrogen and ammonia combustion, as well as fundamental phenomena such as diesel sprays, droplet combustion, and soot formation, and links them with numerical computation and modeling. The lab takes on the challenges of clean, high-efficiency next-generation engines.
Masamichi Kono, Professor
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The Thermophysical Engineering Lab studies the control of material properties through high-pressure torsion, liquid-vapor phase-change heat transfer, and laser-based thermophysical property measurement. In developing thermoelectric materials, the lab applies high-pressure torsion to silicon, which is highly environmentally friendly, and explores the relationship between the material's nanostructure and how heat and electrons are transported. The lab also works on the behavior and phase-change heat transfer of microdroplets impinging on solid surfaces, and on thermophysical property measurement by the thermoreflectance method.
Ekenechukwu Chijioke Okafor, Associate Professor
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The Reactive Gas Dynamics Lab studies the combustion of ammonia, hydrogen, and e-fuels in a consistent way, from the fundamentals of chemical kinetics to practical energy systems. Much of the world's primary energy still depends on fossil fuels, and the lab believes that decarbonizing combustion technology is important. By combining high-pressure combustion experiments, optical measurements, and high-accuracy numerical analysis, the lab aims to realize low-emission and zero-emission combustion technologies. At the Reactive Gas Dynamics Lab, students can work on both experimental research and advanced numerical analysis.
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