News & Updates

We presented one paper at CACRE 2025@Wuxi, China.

• Ruitong Lio, Yunhao Jia, Yuzhe Wu, Pengju Wang, Hanliu Wang, and Kenji Hashimoto, “Modeling and Parameters Identification of Four-Wheel Mobile Robot with Independent Steering and Drive,” Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Automation, Control and Robotics Engineering (CACRE 2025), pp. 288-294, Wuxi, China, July, 2025.
  (doi: 10.1109/CACRE66141.2025.11119562)

We presented one paper at IEEE ARSO 2025@Osaka, Japan.

• Jianan Xie, Wei Zhang, Hongming Chen, Jiayu Zeng, Yuyang Gao, Zhen Xu, and Kenji Hashimoto, “Centralized LLM-Driven Multi-Robot Coordination for Cooperative Object Transportation,” Proceedings of the 21st IEEE International Conference on Advanced Robotics and Its Social Impacts (ARSO 2025), pp. 368-373, Osaka, Japan, July, 2025.
  (doi: 10.1109/ARSO64737.2025.11124964

The following paper presented at The 8th Jc-IFToMM International Symposium@Nagano, Japan has been awarded the Young Investigator Fund Best Paper Award.

• Guanxue Qu, Jianan Xie, and Kenji Hashimoto, “Automated Grasping of Japanese Bento via Center of Gravity Estimation with LVM and YOLO11,” Proceedings of the 8th Jc-IFToMM International Symposium, pp. 48-55, Nagano, Japan, June, 2025.

We presented three papers at The 8th Jc-IFToMM International Symposium@Nagano, Japan.

• Xiaorui Yi, Pengju Wang, and Kenji Hashimoto, “Balance Strategy for a Quadruped-Wheeled Robot under Three-Leg Support Conditions,” Proceedings of the 8th Jc-IFToMM International Symposium, pp. 1-8, Nagano, Japan, June, 2025.
• Guanxue Qu, Jianan Xie, and Kenji Hashimoto, “Automated Grasping of Japanese Bento via Center of Gravity Estimation with LVM and YOLO11,” Proceedings of the 8th Jc-IFToMM International Symposium, pp. 48-55, Nagano, Japan, June, 2025.
• Mengyao Shi, and Kenji Hashimoto, “Toward Inclusive Robot Teleoperation: Real-time Japanese Sign Language Recognition System,” Proceedings of the 8th Jc-IFToMM International Symposium, pp. 161-168, Nagano, Japan, June, 2025.

Our paper was accepted to Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education.

• Zhendong Du, and Kenji Hashimoto, “Exploring sentence-level revision capabilities of large language models in English for academic purposes writing assistance,” Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education, Vol. 10, No. 27 (30 pages), 2025.
  (doi: 10.1186/s40862-025-00334-z)

We presented one paper at ICAIBD 2025@Chengdu, China.

• Hanliu Wang, Zhendong Du, and Kenji Hashimoto, “ER-EDF: An Enhanced Real-Time Emotion Detection Framework for Edge Devices in Emotional Robotics,” Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Big Data (ICAIBD 2025), CA-210, Chengdu, China, May, 2025.

We presented one paper at ISMSI 2025@Tokyo, Japan.

• Hanliu Wang, Zhendong Du, and Kenji Hashimoto, “ATTL: Adaptive Thresholding Triplet Loss for Robust Person Re-identification,” Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Intelligent Systems, Metaheuristics & Swarm Intelligence (ISMSI 2025), TK1034, Tokyo, Japan, April, 2025.

Three Ph.D. students have joined our lab, and eleven M.S. students have been assigned to our lab.
The member page was updated.

The graduation ceremony was held, and four second-year master’s students successfully completed their programs and one fourth-year undergraduate student graduated.

Our paper was accepted to Information.

• Zhendong Du, and Kenji Hashimoto, “AcademiCraft: Transforming WritingAssistance for English for Academic Purposes with Multi-Agent System Innovations,” Information, Vol. 16, No. 4: 254 (50 pages), 2025.
  (doi: 10.3390/info16040254)