Title:

Research and Development of Long-Term Mother Environment for Systems and Devices of Humanoid and Home Assistance

Speaker:

Dr. Masayuki Inaba

Affiliation:

University of Tokyo

When:

Friday, May 11, 2012 at 11:00:00 AM   Add to Calendar

Where:

TSRB Building, Room Banquet Hall

Host:

Nina White
nwhite@cc.gatech.edu

Abstract

The talk introduce a history and ongoing activities of the research and development in JSK Robotics Lab,The University of Tokyo (http://www.jsk.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/research.html) including hand-eye coordination,tracking vision, vision-based robotics, remote-brained approach, whole-body behaviors on humanoids, devices for robot sensor suit, series of musculoskeletal spined humanoids, powered systems for human-perfomance humanoid, learning and assistive activities on HRP2 and PR2, common software architecture in JSK all robots, and development of mother environment.

Biography

Masayuki Inaba is a Professor in the Information Science and Technology, Graduate School at the University of Tokyo. He received B.S, M.S and Dr. degrees of Engineering in 1981,1983 and 1986 respectively was appointed as a lecturer in 1986, an associate professor in 1989, and a professor in 2000 at The University of Tokyo. His research interests include key technologies of robotic system, humanoid, and software architecture for advanced robots. His research projects have included hand-eye coordination in rope handling, vision-based robotics, remote-brained robotics, whole-body behaviors in humanoids, robot sensor suit and musculoskeletal humanoids. He received Best Paper Awards in 1987, 1998 and 1999 from the Robotics Society of Japan, JIRA Awards in 1994, ROBOMECH Awards in 1994 and 1996 from the division of Robotics and echatronics of Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers, and Best Paper Awards of International Conference on Humanoids in 2000 and 2006 with JSK Robotics Lab members.