Robot Implementation Research Team
Team Leader
Shijie GUO (D.Eng.)
The team's researches include development of rubber-based soft sensors (smart rubber sensors) and soft actuators, as well as development of nursing-care assistant robots. Patient transfer is one of the most physically taxing tasks in nursing-care facilities. The team, together with other teams in the center, is developing robots conducting such physical work. Much attention is paid to safety, user-friendliness, and usefulness in various environments. The above-mentioned soft sensors and soft actuators are key elements to the realization of a soft and safe nursing care assistant robot that can interact with human-beings directly.
- Research and development of rubber-based soft tactile sensors
- Research and development of soft actuators
- Development of nursing-care assistant robots
- Shijie GUO and Rentaro KATO.:
"Development of a Dynamic Damper Using Fluids and Rubber"
Journal of Environment and Engineering Vol. 6, No. 1, pp.199-209 (2011) - Toshiharu MUKAI, Shinya HIRANO, Hiromichi NAKASHIMA, Yuki SAKAIDA, and Shijie GUO.:
"Realization and Safety Measures of Patient-Transfer by Nursing-Care Assistant Robot RIBA with Tactile Sensors"
Journal of Robotics and Mechatronics Vol.23, No.3, p360-369 (2011) - Toshiharu MUKAI, Shinya HIRANO, Hiromichi NAKASHIMA, Morio YOSHIDA, Shijie GUO and Yoshikazu HAYAKAWA.:
"Manipulation Using Tactile Information for the Nursing-Care Assistant Robot RIBA in Whole-Body Contact with the Object"
Transactions of the Japan society of mechanical engineers, Vol.77, No.782, pp.3794-3807 (2011) - Kazuto TAKASHIMA, Toshiharu MUKAI and Shijie GUO.:
"Development of a Shape Fixity Module Using Shape-memory Polymer"
Robotics Society of Japan, Vol.28, No.7, pp.1-8 (2010)
Principal Investigator
- Shijie GUO
- Team Leader