Laboratories
Robot Control Research Team
Tatsuya SUZUKI
Team Leader
Tatsuya SUZUKI (D.Eng.)
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Research Areas

In the development of robots for nursing and care, which support care workers with strong force, we focus on fundamental researches and their applications on robust and flexible control, e.g., interaction control between human and robot, simultaneous optimization of structure and control, control for smart materials, etc.

Research Subject

  1. Mechanism and feedback conytrol for security and comfort
  2. Improvement of comfort due to sensitivity feedback technology of the person cared
  3. Communication network to enhance safety and reliability
  4. Giant power generation by using multi-actuators and dynamics
  5. Sensor integrated impedance control to support standing and walking

Related links

  1. RIKEN Advanced Science Institute Website_Laboratories PageNew Window

List of Selected Publications

  1. T.Mukai, S.Hirano, H.Nakashima, M.Yoshida, S.Guo and Y.Hayakawa,:
    "Manipulation Using Tactile Information for a Nursing-Care Assistant Robot in Whole-Body Contact with the Object (in Japanese)"
    Transaction of the Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers Series C, Vol. 77, No.782, pp.3794-3807, 2011
  2. Z.Zyada, Y.Hayakawa, and S.Hosoe,:
    "Fuzzy nonprehensible manipulation control of a two-rigid-link object by two cooperative arms"
    Preprints of the 18th IFAC World Congress, pp.14614-14621, 2011
  3. A.Nakashima, and Y.Hayakawa,:
    "Stability analysis of multi-fingered grasp under destabilizing gravity effect"
    Preprints of the 18th IFAC World Congress, pp.14667-14674, 2011
  4. T.Mukai, S.Hirano, H.Nakashima, Y.Sakaida, and S.Guo,:
    "Realization and Safety Measures of Patient Transfer by Nursing-Care Assistant Robot RIBA with Tactile Sensors"
    Journal of Robotics and Mechatronics, pp.360-369, 2011
  5. M.Yoshida, S.Arimoto, K.Tahara and H.Sugiyama,:
    "Modeling and Control of a Pair of Robot Fingers with Soft Tips and Orderless Saddle-joint Actuators (in Japanese)"
    Journal of the Robotics Society of Japan, Vol.29, No.10, pp.77-87, 2011
  6. S.Arimoto and M.Yoshida,:
    "A Mathematical and Numerically Integrable Modeling of 3D Object Grasping under Rolling Contacts between Smooth Surfaces"
    Modelling and Simulation in Engineering, Vol.2011, Article ID 684034, 2011
  7. K.Tahara, S.Arimoto and M.Yoshida,:
    "Externally Sensorless Position and Attitude Control of a Grasped Object Using a Virtual Frame by a Triple Soft-Fingered Hand (in Japanese)"
    Journal of Robotics Society of Japan, Vol.29, No.1, pp.89-98, 2011

Members

Principal Investigator

Tatsuya SUZUKI
Team Leader

Staff Scientist

Shinya HIRANO
ASI Research Scientist

Postdoctoral Fellow

Changan JIANG
Postdoctoral Researcher
Yuki FUNABORA
Postdoctoral Researcher