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Kazuhiro Nakadai, Professor
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The Nakadai Lab studies technology that lets robots listen to sounds and understand their surrounding environment. To work in real places where noise and reverberation vary greatly, the lab combines sound source localization, sound source separation, and speech recognition. The technology developed so far has been released to the public as HARK, open-source software for robot audition. The lab handles not only sound but also video and other data, and is extending its work to interaction with people, observation of wild birds, and disaster rescue.
Motomu Nakashima, Professor
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The Nakashima Lab views humans as systems and, from the perspectives of systems engineering and mechanical engineering, studies problems of humans and of systems that include humans. It pursues research from many angles in fields such as biomechanics, sports engineering, biorobotics, and assistive technology. The lab has developed "SWUM", a swimming mechanics simulator, and a swimming humanoid robot whose joints move throughout the whole body. The lab calls on students who are interested in these topics to join the lab.
Susumu Sato, Associate Professor
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The Sato Lab researches ways to reduce the environmental burden of automobiles. It measures, analyzes, and predicts the amounts of air pollutants and substances that cause global warming. It also analyzes and predicts the operations and movements of the people who drive vehicles. In its experiments, a vehicle equipped with instruments that measure exhaust emissions is driven on real roads to collect data.
Jun-Ichi Imura, Professor
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The Imura Lab conducts research to build control theory that can be used in new domains. The systems it controls extend beyond machines to gene networks and to power and road traffic systems. The lab aims to build new control theory that can handle larger and more complex systems than before. Its research style is to work with experts in each field and support analysis and design from the theoretical side.
Hiroya Nakao, Professor
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The Nakao Lab studies nonlinear dynamics and stochastic processes that occur in a wide variety of real-world systems from a mathematical standpoint. It seeks to uncover the mechanisms shared by diverse phenomena, from physics and chemistry to mechanical and electrical engineering and living systems. Using theory and numerical simulation, the lab investigates synchronization, in which rhythms become aligned, and the vibrations of machines and structures subjected to irregular fluctuations. It also aims to apply the findings to control and design.
Takeshi Hatanaka, Professor
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The Hatanaka Lab studies large-scale systems in which information (cyber), physical, and human elements influence one another. It explores the fundamental principles for coordinating people and society with networked control systems through distributed decision-making. The main application areas are smart agriculture, smart technologies for the skies and seas, and energy management. Beyond theory, the lab works on the social implementation of robot networks and human-robot collaboration through interdisciplinary joint research.
Hideyuki Tsukagoshi, Professor
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The Tsukagoshi Lab studies “fluid robotics,” which combines the properties of fluids with robotics. The lab connects sensing, information processing, and motion through “fluid signals,” aiming for robots that adapt flexibly to their environment like an amoeba. Robots driven by fluids yield gently to external forces and can squeeze into narrow spaces. The lab sees its main arenas as places that electronically controlled robots cannot enter, such as medical and caregiving settings where electric shock or ignition is unacceptable, the inside of MRI scanners, and outer space.
Seiichiro Hara, Associate Professor
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Hara Lab studies both creating and measuring the shapes of objects in the field of precision machining and measurement. Its aim is to connect people's natural understanding with engineering functions and with the shapes, structures, and motions that realize them. Building on this, the lab aims to contribute to society by creating new functions and improving performance. The faculty's research areas are surface profile measurement, measurement data processing, quality engineering, and machining and measurement.
Masatsugu Takemoto, Professor
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Takemoto-Kiyota Lab studies new motors that contribute to energy saving and the reduction of greenhouse gases. One line of research is the switched reluctance motor, which achieves high performance without rare-earth magnets and is intended for use in electric and hybrid vehicles. The other is the magnetically levitated bearingless motor, which uses no bearings and instead levitates and supports the rotating shaft with electromagnetic force. Combining electrical, mechanical, information, and electronic engineering, the lab places importance on actually designing, prototyping, and testing motors.
Takahiro Urakabe, Project Professor
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The Urakabe-Harada Lab is a joint lab with Mitsubishi Electric Corporation that develops core technologies for power electronics. The lab researches power electronics technologies for using electricity efficiently and stably, from generation to consumption. Working together with members of the power electronics labs at Institute of Science Tokyo, the lab advances power semiconductor, electric circuit, and control technologies. The lab works on electric circuits for making full use of power semiconductor devices, and on circuit configurations that reduce power loss.
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