We have been studying multiple mobile robot systems since 1989. We consider intelligent systems as consisting of three factors: (a) multiple robots or intelligent machines (multiple agents), (b) human-beings who operate or cooperate with multiple agents, and (c) working environments. Now we deal with “design of robotics system”, “design of large-scale production/transport systems”, and “human analysis, service, and hyper-adaptability science” based on motion planning methodology, evolutionary computation, control theory, and so on.
Our final target is to establish design methodology of multi-agent systems including artificial agents, humans and working environments through clarifying the underlying structure and function in the intelligence and mobility (mobiligence) of these agents.
Current research areas
Introduction [Japanese PDF] [English PDF]
Design of robotics system
- Development and manipulation planning of small mobile robot [Movie]
- Contact state estimation using motion [Movie]
- Design of mechanism using optimization according to task
Design of large-scale production/transport systems
Human analysis, service, and hyper-adaptability science
- Musculoskeletal simulation of human stance postural control for external forces [Movie]
- Representation of postural abnormalities in Parkinson’s disease patients using a computational model [Movie]
- Development of the wearable device for measuring finger joint angle [Movie]
- Method to estimate the muscle activation pattern from MRI and EMG
- Learning patient transfer skill by using a robot patient [Movie]
- Multi-attention deep recurrent neural network for nursing action evaluation using wearable sensor
Following research topic is studied by the collaboration with Dr. Tatsunori Hara (Project Associate Professor of Graduate School of Media and Governance, Keio University and Senior Project Researcher of School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo)
※These links are PDF files and Movies