The 2019 JSME Robotics and Mechatronics Conference was held from June 5th to June 8th in Hiroshima. This year the theme of the conference was “Robotics and Mechatronics Revive The Industries “.

Six members in our lab wrote the papers and joined the conference. The presentation was going on in the form of poster. The presented research titles are listed below:

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〇仇哲(presenter)、小澤隆太、馬書根 「A virtual power-based collision detection approach with adaptive contact force estimation」

〇柴田大地(presenter)、馬書根、加古川篤 「ベルヌーイの原理を利用した非接触水中壁面吸着機構の吸着力のモデル構築」

〇世良文哉(presenter)、加古川篤、馬書根 ｢8 インチガス管内検査ロボットの曲管走行のための関節角度制御」

〇沈雅怡(presenter)、馬書根、加古川篤、田陽、張国騰、井上脩也 「水中における偏心パドル機構の新たな水泳方法の提案」

〇海津祐貴、加古川篤(presenter)、馬書根 ｢把持と引き上げが可能な空気圧グリッパーの開発」

〇張国騰、田陽(presenter)、馬書根、加古川篤 「Control System Design for the Quadruped Walking Platform TITAN-VIII」

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Prof. Kakogawa, Mr. Zhang (PD) and Mr. Oka (M2) gave presentations in IROS 2018 (The 2018 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems) held in Madrid, Spain during 1st-5th October 2018.

• Atsushi Kakogawa and Shugen Ma, Differential Elastic Joint for Multi-linked Pipeline Inspection Robots, IEEE/RSJ Int. Conf. Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2018), pp. 949-954, 2018, Madrid, Spain.
• Guoteng Zhang, Shugen Ma, Felix Liang and Yibin Li, Quadruped Locomotion Control Based on Two Bipeds Jointly Carrying Model, IEEE/RSJ Int. Conf. Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2018), pp. 1732-1738, 2018, Madrid, Spain.
• Guoteng Zhang, Shugen Ma and Yibin Li, Nonprehensile Pushing Manipulation Strategies for a Multi-limb Robot, IEEE/RSJ Int. Conf. Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2018), pp. 6634-6639, 2018, Madrid, Spain.
• Guoteng Zhang, Shugen Ma and Yibin Li, Dynamic Modelling and Motion Planning for the Nonprehensile Manipulation and Locomotion Tasks of the Quadruped Robot, IEEE/RSJ Int. Conf. Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2018), pp. 8013-8018, 2018, Madrid, Spain.
• Yoshimichi Oka, Atsushi Kakogawa and Shugen Ma, Development of a Multilink-articulated Wheeled In-pipe Robot with Differential Mechanisms in Wheel and Link Axes, IEEE/RSJ Int. Conf. Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2018), pp. 973-978, 2018, Madrid, Spain.

On 26th July, Robotics Research Center held two invited speeches. Professor C.S. George Lee from Purdue University  (School of Electrical and Computer Engineering) and Professor Yunhui Liu from The Chinese University of Hong Kong gave speeches about Robotics. Before the speech, they visited our laboratory. Professor C.S. George Lee, Professor Yunhui Liu and Professor Ma also visited Kyoto International Conference Center together on 25th July.

The title of the speech:

• Professor C.S. George Lee (School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University)

What Can a Humanoid Robot Do?

• Professor Yunhui Liu (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)

Manipulation Control of Soft Objects for Automated Robotic Surgery

Prof. Ma has been selected as 2018 IEEE Fellow.

Prof. Ma is selected as IEEE Fellow “For contributions to the design and control of environment-adaptive robots” in the robotics field.

http://www.ieee-ras.org/about-ras/latest-news/1168-2018-ieee-ras-fellow-class-announced