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RIKEN-TRI Collaboration Center for Human-Interactive Robot Research
Shigeyuki HOSOE
Director
Shigeyuki HOSOE (D.Eng.)
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Research Areas

RIKEN-TRI Collaboration Center for Human-Interactive Robot Research (RTC), established on August 1, 2007 as a joint collaboration project of RIKEN and Tokai Rubber Industries, Ltd. (TRI), seeks to develop a nursing-care assisting robot that can help reducing heavy physical tasks in nursing-care unit facilities or houses. The research includes establishing control architectures and algorithms for such tasks with a limited motor torque and robot size. We focus also on combining robotic researches with the development of new functional materials to be used for soft actuators and sensors. We developed in 2009 a nursing-care assist robot, "RIBA," that can lift a real human (over 60 kg) from a bed or wheelchair and back, using its human-like arms. This is the first of its kind in the world, and attracts wide attentions from the world.

Research Subject

  1. Development of care assisting robot
  2. Development of sensors and actuators using new functional materials
  3. Development of a new model for nursing motion of human

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Press release

March 13, 2006
Research and Development of "RI-MAN," a Robot That Can Hold a Person in Its Arms Using Tactile Sensors New Window

List of Selected Publications

  1. Yuichi Kobayashi and Shigeyuki Hosoe
    "Planning-Space Shift Motion Generation: Variable-space Motion Planning toward Flexible Extension of Body Schema"
    Journal of Intelligent Robotic Systems. Online FirstTM, 12 August 2010
  2. I.Goncharenko, M.Svinin and S.Hosoe
    "Dynamic model, haptic solution, and human-inspired motion planning for rolling-based manipulation"
    Journal of Computing and Information Science in Engineering, vol.9, no.1, pp.011004-1-011004-10, 2009
  3. Yuichi Kobayashi, Kyouji Otsubo and Shigeyuki Hosoe
    "Design of Decentralized Capturing Behavior by Multiple Mobile Robots"
    International Transactions on Systems Science and Applications, Vol. 3, No. 3, 203-210, 2007
  4. Y. Yin, K.Tamura, and S.Hosoe
    "Optimal Planning of Multi-contacted Grasp by the undle Trust Region Method"
    Trans. of the Institute of Systems, Control and Information Engineers, Vol.21, No.8, 2008
  5. M.Svinin and S.Hosoe
    "Motion Planning Algorithms for a Rolling Sphere With Limited Contact Area"
    IEEE Transactions on Robotics, Vol.24, No.3, pp.612-625, 2008
  6. Y.Kobayashi, K.Otsubo and S.Hosoe
    "Design of Decentralized Capturing Behavior by Multiple Mobile Robots"
    International Transactions on Systems Science and Applications, October, Vol.3, No.3, pp.203-210, 2007
  7. Y.Kobayashi, K.Otsubo and S.Hosoe
    "Autonomous Decentralized Control of Capturing Behavior by Multiple Mobile Robots"
    Transactions of the Society of Instrument and Control Engineers, Vol.43, No.8, pp.663-671, 2007. (in Japanese)




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