News & Updates

Five second-year master’s students and ten fourth-year undergraduates completed their degrees.
In addition, Mr. Taisei Suzuki received the Academic Excellence Award, Mr. Yoshihiro Satake received the Alumni Association Academic Excellence Award, and Mr. Hiromichi Kasahara received the Special Award from Department of Mechanical Engineering Informatics.

Our paper was accepted to the International Journal of Mechatronics and Automation.

• Asahi Anzai, Toshihide Doi, Kazuki Hashida, Xuechao Chen, Lianqiang Han, and Kenji Hashimoto, “Monopod robot prototype with reaction wheel for hopping and posture stabilisation,” International Journal of Mechatronics and Automation, Vol. 8, No. 4, pp. 163–174, 2021.
  doi: 10.1504/IJMA.2021.120383

Our lab exhibited at SEMICON Japan 2021 held at Tokyo Big Sight from December 15 to 17, 2021.

Our laboratory was interviewed by Toshin TV.

Our paper was accepted to the JFPS International Journal of Fluid Power System.

• Juri Shimizu, Takuya Otani, Kenji Hashimoto, and Atsuo Takanishi, “Evaluation of Tracking Control for Hydraulic Direct-drive System,” JFPS International Journal of Fluid Power System, Vol. 13, No. 3, pp. 17-24, 2020.
  (https://doi.org/10.5739/jfpsij.13.17)

We presented one paper at IEEE ICMA 2021@Takamatsu, Japan (online).

• Asahi Anzai, Toshihide Doi, Kazuki Hashida, Xuechao Chen, Lianqiang Han, and Kenji Hashimoto, “Development of Prototype Electric-driven 2-DoF Monopod Robot for Hopping Motion,” Proceedings of the 2021 IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics and Automation (ICMA 2021), pp. 1182-1187, Takamatsu, Japan, August, 2021.

Our paper was accepted to the Journal of Bionic Engineering.

• Xiao Sun, Kenji Hashimoto, Shota Hayashi, Masahiro Okawara, Takashi Mastuzawa and Atsuo Takanishi, “Stable Vertical Ladder Climbing with Rung Recognition for a Four-limbed Robot,” Journal of Bionic Engineering, Vol. 18, pp. 786–798, 2021.
  doi: 10.1007/s42235-021-0058-3

We presented one paper at Humanoids 2020@Munich, Germany (online).

• Haoxiang Qi, Xuechao Chen, Zhangguo Yu, Gao Huang, Libo Meng, Kenji Hashimoto, and Wenxi Liao, “A vertical jump optimization strategy for one-legged robot with variable reduction ratio joint,” Proceedings of the 2020 IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids 2020), Munich, Germany, July, 2021.

Ten junior students newly joined our laboratory. Member page was updated.

The member page was updated to reflect the start of the fiscal year 2021.