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Michiko Sugawara, Associate Professor
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The lab focuses on cell biomechanics and investigates cell behavior. Within cell behavior, the lab mainly studies cell motility in general. When cells sense the physical environment and stimuli outside them, structures inside the cell such as the cytoskeleton change, and cell functions change as a result. The lab aims to clarify this mechanism from the perspectives of mechanics and systems engineering, and to apply the findings to biomedical engineering.
Kazuya Okawa, Associate Professor
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The Intelligent Machine Systems Lab researches how to make machines move appropriately according to the situation. The approach is closer to how a person operates a machine than to the control theory taught in lectures. The lab deals with environment perception, model building, and motion planning, aiming for machines that keep working reliably even when sensor information contains errors. The lab develops autonomous mobile robots that run in everyday indoor and outdoor settings, and takes part in the Tsukuba Challenge.
Satoshi Suzuki, Associate Professor
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The Autonomous Control Systems Lab has as its major goal "the creation of autonomous systems using robots." An autonomous system is one that can think about and decide its own actions, and living organisms are the typical example. The lab centers on research on aerial robots, represented by drones, from the perspectives of control engineering and robotics. It aims to realize robots with the ultimate autonomous capability found in living organisms.
Daigo Fujiwara, Assistant Professor
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The Fujiwara Lab (Flight Dynamics and Control Lab) studies the dynamics and control of aircraft flight. The lab works with rotary-wing aircraft such as helicopters, as well as fixed-wing aircraft. It develops flight control systems and conducts research on navigation and guidance.
Yasuo Moriyoshi, Professor
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The Moriyoshi-Kuboyama Lab conducts research to minimize the energy used by automobiles and bring their emissions to zero (zero emissions). In addition to research on internal combustion engines and fuels, the lab has so far carried out industry–academia collaborative research on powertrain control and calibration, including hybrid vehicle (HV) systems and transmission mechanisms. Taking V2X into account, the lab is now working on making vehicles zero-emission within traffic flow. The lab is run together with the Next-Generation Mobility Power Source Research Center, which is affiliated with the Institute of Engineering. The center conducts joint research with private companies such as automobile manufacturers and fuel companies.
Gaku Tanaka, Professor
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The Tanaka Lab builds on thermofluids engineering to develop equipment and systems that use energy effectively, and to study heat and mass transport inside the living body. Flow inside the respiratory organs is studied through experiments and computer analysis, and blood flow inside cerebral aneurysms is studied through experiments using models. At the same time, the lab works on developing heat pipes that carry heat using oscillating flow, and a system that stores and transports cold energy produced with nighttime electricity. The lab welcomes visitors, and you can stop by the offices of the faculty members and the rooms of the students.
Fumihiko Mikami, Associate Professor
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The Mikami Lab studies the fluid dynamics of "complex fluids" such as polymer fluids and aqueous solutions of surfactant micelles. Viscoelastic fluids, which have both elasticity and viscosity, show flows that are not seen in simple fluids such as water and air. The lab conducts experiments using viscoelastic fluids such as aqueous solutions of wormlike micelles, and observes the flow in detail with image velocimetry and birefringence imaging. By comparing numerical simulations with experiments, the lab also deepens its understanding from the theoretical side.
Masanori Ota, Associate Professor
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The Ota Lab measures changes in density, pressure, and temperature that occur near shock waves, contributing to the development of rockets and Shinkansen trains. The main tool is a visualization technique called the BOS (background-oriented schlieren) method, which quantitatively measures the density of a flow from the displacement seen in images of a striped background. Because a color grid with different colors in the vertical and horizontal directions is used as the background, displacements in both the horizontal and vertical directions can be obtained in a single shot. The lab works on visualizing and elucidating a variety of fluid phenomena, including those in supersonic wind tunnels, shock tubes, and laser-induced bubbles in water.
Yu Yu, Professor
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The Yu Lab researches and develops fundamental robotics technologies that can be applied to home-based rehabilitation and care support. Research is carried out in three groups: biomonitoring, electrophysiological simulation, and soft robotics. Because the lab approaches the fields of medicine, nursing care, and welfare with a variety of technologies, students can acquire a broad range of knowledge and skills through their research. The lab hosts many international students and has active joint projects with labs overseas. Lab visits are accepted at any time.
Seiji Nakagawa, Professor
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The Nakagawa-Ohtsuka Lab uses psychological measurement, neurophysiological measurement, acoustic physical measurement, and computer simulation to study human sensation, perception, and cognition, especially the mechanisms of hearing. Beyond clarifying these mechanisms, the lab also puts a great deal of effort into using the results to develop assistive devices and to optimize audiovisual environments. The lab also works on applied research, including bone-conduction hearing aids, bone-conduction smartphones, and communication devices that are robust against noise. Because the research is interdisciplinary, spanning engineering, medicine, neurophysiology, and experimental psychology, students learn the knowledge and techniques of each field as needed.
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