Faculty of Information TechnologyDepartment of Information Systems

Faculty Members

• IRIE Shinji Professor

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  KAWARAZAKI Noriyuki Professor

  [Key Words]

  • Human Robot Interaction
  • Smooth Interfacing based on the image processing and voice recognition
  • Application of AI for robot control
  • Autonomous Mobile Robot using the SLAM
  • Health Care Robot System

  [Research Themes]

  • Communication Robot Based on Image Processing and Voice Recognition
  • Development of Human Following Mobile Robot System Using Laser Range Scanner
  • A Development of the Health Care Monitoring Robot System
  • Person Detection and Following Quadcopter System Based on the Color Information
  • Error Detection of Mobile Robot using Machine Learning

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  TAKAO Hidenobu Professor

  [Key Words]

  • Human Factors and Ergonomics
  • Study for Human Function Enhancement

  [Research Themes]

  • User Experience (UX) for in-vehicle Human Machine Interface
  • Augmented Reality (AR) for visual impaired person
  • High efficiency Human Powered Vehicle (HPV)

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  TAKAHASHI Katsumi Professor

  [Key Words]

  • Sports Physiology, Sorts Biomechanics, Ergonomics

  [Research Themes]

  • Research on motor function of elderly people
  • Sensory evaluation of grasping
  • Research on development of health equipment

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  TAKAHASHI Yoshihiko Professor

  [Key Words]

  • Control systems of personal mobility vehicles and human assist systems regarding human emotion

  [Research Themes]

  • Control systems of small vehicle and human assist system
  • Control systems regarding human emotion
  • Personal mobility vehicles
  • Small electric vehicles
  • Human assist systems

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  HYODO Kazuhito Professor

  [Key Words]

  • Biped Humanoid Robot
  • Tendon driven Robot
  • IMU-based motion capture system

  [Research Themes]

  • Development of motion control system for robot arm and walking robot
  • Development of control system for tendon driven mechanism
  • Development of sensing system for full body motion capture

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  YOSHINO Kazuyoshi Professor

  [Key Words]

  • Development of Vision System for Robot

  [Research Themes]

  • Teacher Assistant Robot in Class Room
  • Home Tutor Robot
  • STEM-based Education System Using Robots
  • Rehabilitation Instruction Robot
  • Robot for Cleaning up Room

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  YOSHIMITSU Toshihiro Professor

  [Key Words]

  • Disaster-relief and rescue robots
  • Robots with pneumatic/fluidic soft actuators

  [Research Themes]

  • Development of welfare equipment using air pressure
  • Development of disaster prevention and disaster relief equipment
  • Development of barrier-free wheelchairs

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  SAEGUSA Ryo Associate professor

  [Key Words]

  • Studies on Human Machine Symbiosis Enhanced by Robotics and Cognitive Sciences

  [Research Themes]

  • Autonomous Rounds Robots for Health Monitoring in Hospitals and Care Facilities
  • Human-Machine interface for Cognitive Rehabilitation on Locomotion and Manipulation
  • Machine Learning and Cognitive Systems for Active Perception and Tool Use of Agents
  • Ubiquitous Systems for Sensory-Motor Interaction between Human and Environments
  • Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence for Filed Robots and Factory Automation

  [English Website]

  https://www.syblab.org/index_en.html

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  YOSHIDOME Tadashi Associate professor

  [Key Words]

  • Robotics / Natural communication with humans / Universal design for robot

  [Research Themes]

  • Development of an interactive robot like grandchild
  • Human detection using an omni-directional thermal camera
  • Development of an outdoor mobile robot
  • Gesture recognition using RGB-D sensor
  • Navigation of a mobile robot in an environment filled with IC tag under the floor