News & Updates

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

Our paper was accepted to Applied Sciences.

• Huimin Sun, Yilin Zhang, Honglin Sun, and Kenji Hashimoto, “Refined Prior Guided Category-Level 6D Pose Estimation and Its Application on Robotic Grasping,” Applied Sciences, Vol. 14, No. 17: 8009 (19 pages), 2024.
  (doi: 10.3390/app14178009)

We presented one paper at IEEE ICARM 2024@Tokyo, Japan.

• Jianan Xie, Yilin Zhang, Zhen Xu, Yuyang Gao, Jiawei Bai, Jiayu Zeng, and Kenji Hashimoto, “One-Handed Wonders: A Remote Control Method Based on Hand Gesture for Mobile Manipulator,” Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Advanced Robotics and Mechatronics (ICARM), TuPMR5.2 (6 pages), Tokyo, Japan, July, 2024.

The following paper presented at the 6th IFToMM Symposium on Mechanism Design for Robotics (MEDER 2024)@Timişoara, Romania has been awarded the Silver Best Research Paper Award.

• Junsei Yamano, Taisei Suzuki, Takatoshi Nakahara, Yoshinobu Kasahara and Kenji Hashimoto, “MELEW-3: Quadruped-Wheeled Robot with 4-DoFs and an Active Wheel on One Leg,” Proc. of the 6th IFToMM Symposium on Mechanism Design for Robotics (MEDER 2024), Timişoara, Romania, June, 2024.

We presented one paper at The 6th IFToMM Symposium on Mechanism Design for Robotics (MEDER 2024)@Timişoara, Romania.

• Junsei Yamano, Taisei Suzuki, Takatoshi Nakahara, Yoshinobu Kasahara and Kenji Hashimoto, “MELEW-3: Quadruped-Wheeled Robot with 4-DoFs and an Active Wheel on One Leg,” Proc. of the 6th IFToMM Symposium on Mechanism Design for Robotics (MEDER 2024), pp. **-**, Timişoara, Romania, June, 2024.

We presented four papers at The 7th Jc-IFToMM International Symposium@Kitakyushu, Japan.

• Xiaohan Du, Shanshan Wang, Jianan Xie, Yilin Zhang and Kenji Hashimoto, “Feature Point Selection and Segmentation of Specular Surfaces in Moving Cameras Using SLAM Camera Principle and DBSCAN Clustering,” Proceedings of the 7th Jc-IFToMM International Symposium, pp. 31-38, Kitakyushu, Japan, June, 2024.
• Hongming Chen, Zhen Xu, Hai Hu, Jianan Xie, Yue Yi and Kenji Hashimoto, “shooting-based MPC for Biped Humanoid Robot to Imitate Human Dances,” Proceedings of the 7th Jc-IFToMM International Symposium, pp. 148-153, Kitakyushu, Japan, June, 2024.
• Jianan Xie, Zhen Xu, Jiayu Zeng, Xiaohan Du, Yilin Zhang, Shanshan Wang, Hongming Chen and Kenji Hashimoto, “A Novel Teleoperation Approach Based on MediaPipe and LSTM,” Proceedings of the 7th Jc-IFToMM International Symposium, pp. 178-185, Kitakyushu, Japan, June, 2024.
• Zhen Xu, Jianan Xie, Hongming Chen, Hai Hu, Xiaohan Du and Kenji Hashimoto, “From Walking to Jumping: Precise Gait Control in Bipedal Robots via Model Predictive Control,” Proceedings of the 7th Jc-IFToMM International Symposium, pp. 236-242, Kitakyushu, Japan, June, 2024.

Our paper was accepted to Biomimetics.

• Yilin Zhang, Huimin Sun, Honglin Sun, Yuan Huang and Kenji Hashimoto, “Biped Robots Control in Gusty Environments with Adaptive Exploration Based DDPG,” Biomimetics, Vol. 9, No. 6: 346, 2024.
  (doi: 10.3390/biomimetics9060346)

We presented one paper at MSR-RoManSy 2024@Saint Petersburg, Florida USA.

• Yilin Zhang, Jianan Xie, Xiaohan Du, Huimin Sun, Shanshan Wang and Kenji Hashimoto, “Biped Robot Terrain Adaptability Based on Improved SAC Algorithm,” Proceedings of the Joint MSR-RoManSy 2024 Symposium, pp. 99-104, Saint Petersburg, Florida, USA, May, 2024.
  (doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-60618-2_8)

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

We presented two papers at AROB-ISBC-SWARM 2024@Beppu, Japan.

• Yilin Zhang, Xiaohan Du, Huimin Sun, Shanshan Wang and Kenji Hashimoto, “Stable Walking Method of Biped Robots in Gusty Environments with Deep Reinforcement Learning,” Proceedings of AROB-ISBC-SWARM 2024, pp. 419-423, Beppu, Japan, January, 2024.
• Huimin Sun, Yuan Huang, Yilin Zhang, Chi Li and Kenji Hashimoto, “Manipulator Grasp Detection Based on a Novel CAG Block and Multi-Scale Inception,” Proceedings of AROB-ISBC-SWARM 2024, pp. 725-730, Beppu, Japan, January, 2024.