News & Updates

We presented one paper at PACLIC 37@Hong Kong.

• Zhendong Du and Kenji Hashimoto, “Data Augmentation for SentRev using Back-Translation of Lexical Bundles,” Proceedings of the 37th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation (PACLIC 37), pp. ***-***, Hong Kong, December, 2023.

We presented one paper at MASR 2023@Kitakyushu, Japan.

• Jianan Xie, Yue Yi and Kenji Hashimoto, “Robot Car Motion Control Leveraging Hand Gesture Recognition with MediaPipe,” Proc. of the Workshop on Next-generation technology for AI application strategic industries: MASR 2023 (Mobility, AI, Semiconductor, and Robot), pp. 53-56, Kitakyushu, Japan, November, 2023.

We presented one paper at IFToMM WC 2023@Tokyo, Japan.

• Ayumu Nara and Kenji Hashimoto, “Power Transmission Mechanism from Upper Limb to Lower Limb by Pneumatic Artificial Muscles for Development of Self-Assist Suit,” Abstract Booklet of the 16th World Congress of the International Federation for the Promotion of Mechanism and Machine Science (IFToMM WC 2023), pp. 9-10, Tokyo, Japan, November, 2023.

We presented one paper at ROCLING 2023@Taipei city, Taiwan.

• Zhendong Du and Kenji Hashimoto, “Sentence-Level Revision with Neural Reinforcement Learning,” Proceedings of the 35th Conference on Computational Linguistics and speech Processing (ROCLING 2023), pp. 202-209, Taipei city, Taiwan, October, 2023.

The following paper presented at CLAWAR 2023@Florianópolis, Brazil has been awarded the CLAWAR Association Best Technical Paper Award -Second Runner-up Prize-.

• Taisei Suzuki, Hayato Ota, Hiroki Takenaka, Takayuki Tanaka, Yuta Ishizawa, and Kenji Hashimoto, “Leg Mechanism of a Quadruped Wheeled Robot with a 4-DoF Spherical Parallel Link Mechanism,” Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Climbing and Walking Robots (CLAWAR 2023), Florianópolis, Brazil, October, 2023.

We presented two papers at CLAWAR 2023@Florianópolis, Brazil.

• Taisei Suzuki, Hayato Ota, Hiroki Takenaka, Takayuki Tanaka, Yuta Ishizawa, and Kenji Hashimoto, “Leg Mechanism of a Quadruped Wheeled Robot with a 4-DoF Spherical Parallel Link Mechanism,” Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Climbing and Walking Robots (CLAWAR 2023), pp. ***-***, Florianópolis, Brazil, October, 2023.
• Junsei Yamano, Masaki Kurokawa, Yuki Sakai, and Kenji Hashimoto, “Walking Motion Generation of Bipedal Robot Based on Planar Covariation Using Deep Reinforcement Learning,” Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Climbing and Walking Robots (CLAWAR 2023), pp. ***-***, Florianópolis, Brazil, October, 2023.

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

We presented one paper at ROBOMECH2023@Nagoya, Japan.

• Yusuke Kawashima, Yuta Ishizawa, Taisei Suzuki, Tabito Aota, and Kenji Hashimoto, “Design and Development of a Two-legged Wheeled Robot Capable of Wheeled Locomotion Utilizing 4-DoF Legs,” Proceedings of the 2023 JSME Conference on Robotics and Mechatronics (ROBOMECH 2023), 2P2-G18, Nagoya, Japan, June, 2023.

Our paper was accepted to Robotica.

• Lianqiang Han, Xuechao Chen, Zhangguo Yu, Zhifa Gao, Gao Huang, Jintao Zhang, Kenji Hashimoto and Qiang Huang, “A heuristic gait template planning and dynamic motion control for biped robots,” Robotica, Vol. 41, Issue 2, pp. 789-805, 2023.
  doi: 10.1017/S026357472200162X

Our paper was accepted to the Science China Information Sciences.

• Lianqiang Han, Xuechao Chen, Zhangguo Yu, Xishuo Zhu, Kenji Hashimoto and Qiang Huang, “Trajectory-free dynamic locomotion using key trend states for biped robots with point feet,” Science China Information Sciences, Vol. 66, Article No. 189201, 2022.
  doi: 10.1007/s11432-021-3450-5