Robot Sensor Systems Research Team
Team Leader
Toshiharu MUKAI (D.Eng.)
We are conducting research on robotic sensor devices, sensor information processing and human-robot interaction using sensors, aiming to give intelligence and autonomy to robots that will be developed in the collaboration center. It requires to conduct research in wide areas from materials to robot motion control and planing. We are developing new sensors that can actually be used in our robots, by collaborating with the other teams in the center.
- Soft areal tactile sensors for human-interactive robots
- Robot behavior based on sensor information
- Sound source localization of multiple sources
- Artificial muscles for soft robots
- August 27, 2009
- New robot to reduce burden on care facilities
- October 09, 2007
- Robotic surgeon's assistant could be the solution to nurse shortages
- Kato, Y. and Mukai, T.:
"A Real-Time Intelligent Gas Sensor System Using a Nonlinear Dynamic Response"
Sensors and Actuators B, Vol.120, Issue 2, pp.514-520 (2007). - Nakabo, Y., Mukai, T., Ogawa, K., Ohnishi, N., and Asaka, K.:
"Biomimetic Soft Robot Using Artificial Muscle"
2004 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS2004) Tutorial, 9pages (2004). - Nakashima, H., Ohnishi, N., and Mukai, T.:
"A Learning System for Estimating the Elevation Angle of a Sound Source by Using a Feature Map of Spectrum"
Trans. on the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers D-II, Vol.J87-D-II, No.11, 2034-2044 (2004) (in Japanese). - Rossiter, J. and Mukai, T.:
"Bio-Mimetic Learning from Images Using Imprecise Expert Information"
Fuzzy Sets and Systems,Vol.158, Issue 3, pp.295-311 (2007). - Ohata, M., Matsuoka, M., and Mukai, T.:
"An Adaptive Blind Separation Method Using Para-Hermitian Whitening Filter for Convolutively Mixed Signals"
Signal Processing, Vol.87, Issue 1, pp.33-50 (2007). - Takashima, T., Ota, S., Ohta, M., Yoshinaka, K., and Mukai, T.:
"Development of Computer-based Simulator for Catheter Navigation in Blood Vessels (2nd Report, Evaluation of Torquability of Guidewire)"
Trans. of the Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers C, Vol.73, No.735, pp.116-123 (2007) (in Japanese). - Ogawa, K., Nakabo Y., Mukai, T., Asaka, K., and Ohnishi, N.:
"A Snake-Like Swimming Robot with an Artificial Muscle"
Trans. of the Society of Instrument and Control Engineers,Vol.42, No.1, pp.80-89 (2006) (in Japanese). - Mukai, T., Onishi, M., Odashima, T., Hirano, S., and Luo, Z.:
"Development of the Tactile Sensor System of a Human-Interactive Robot 'RI-MAN'"
IEEE Trans. on Robotics, Vol. 24, No. 2 505-512. (2008) - T. Mukai, Y. Kato.:
"1 ms Soft Areal Tactile Giving Robots Soft Response,"
Journal of Robotics and Mechatronics 2008, 20, 473-480. - K. Takashima, N. Kamamichi, T. Yagi, K. Asaka, T. Mukai.:
"Cytotoxicity Test and Mass Spectrometry of IPMC,"
Electronics and Communications in Japan 2010, 93, 1029-1035.
Principal Investigator
- Toshiharu MUKAI
- Team Leader
Staff Scientist
- Hiromichi NAKASHIMA
- ASI Research Scientist
Postdoctoral Fellow
- Kazuya MATSUO
- Postdoctoral Researcher
- Minghui SUN
- Postdoctoral Researcher