时间： 3月15日（周五），10:00

地点： 信息大楼  A511会议室

报告信息：

Kaoru Hirota

Professor Emeritus, Tokyo Institute of Technology

Title: Introduction to Fuzzy Logic & JSPS Activities

Abstract:

The lecture is mainly for the graduate students majoring in intelligence control. Fuzzy logic is an extension of the computer logic, i.e., two-valued Boolean logic, and is the basis for the fuzzy control in the framework of intelligence control. After the brief survey of two-valued Boolean logic, the concept of 3 basic fuzzy logical operations are introduced, i.e., fuzzy negation, t-norm, and s-norm. The examples of each fuzzy logical operations are mentioned and their mathematical properties are discussed. Finally, (1-, min, max) is mentioned to be used as the most popular fuzzy logical operation system, and is shown that it constitutes a pseudo complemented distributive lattice, i.e., pseudo Boolean algebra. It is also introduced that how this (1- , min, max) system is used to the fuzzy inference operation in various, practical fuzzy control systems.

Then, as a director of Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Beijing office, a brief introduction to various JSPS programs for the Chinese researchers’ convenience is presented.

Prof. Kaoru Hirota (IFSA Fellow 2003) received Dr. E. degrees from Tokyo Institute of Technology in 1979. He is an honorary professor in Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan. His research interests include fuzzy systems, intelligent robot, and image understanding. Dr. Hirota experienced president and fellow of IFSA (International Fuzzy Systems Association), and president of SOFT (Japan Society for Fuzzy Theory and Systems). He also experienced Associate Editors of IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, and IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics. He is now a chief editor of J. of Advanced Computational Intelligence and Intelligent Informatics, Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems, and Advisory Board of International Journal of Fuzzy Systems. Banki Donat Medal, Henri Coanda Medal, Grigore MOISIL Award, SOFT best paper award, Acoustical Society of Japan best paper award, were awarded to him. He organized many international conferences/symposiums as a founding/general/ program chair.

Prof. Yasuhiro Ohyama,  Tokyo University of Technology

Title: Sustainable engineering education at School of Engineering, Tokyo University of Technology

Abstract:

Sustainable engineering is an engineering field that simultaneously takes into consideration of harmonization with the environment, revitalization of the economy, and improvement of the quality of life so as to contribute to the realization of a sustainable society. At the School of Engineering, Tokyo University of Technology, the three departments (Mechanical Engineering, Electric and Electronic Engineering, Applied Chemistry) carry out a common program related to the sustainable engineering. Students learn the basic knowledge of the sustainable engineering at the first step. They master the method of life cycle analysis at the second step. And at the third step, students at each department get together to build teams to perform comprehensive assessment of commercially available products from the viewpoints of environment, economy, and daily life. In this talk, I will explain the ideas and the state of the education of sustainable engineering at out school.

Short Bio:

1985 PhD degrees in Engineering from Tokyo Institute of Technology

1985.4-1991.3 Director of Advanced Control Laboratory Inc.

1991.4-1996.3 Lecturer, Tokyo University of Technology

1996.4-2003.3 Associate Professor, Tokyo University of Technology

2002- Professor, Tokyo University of Technology

2015- Dean, School of Engineering, Professor, Tokyo University of Technology

Prof. Edwardo Fumihiko Fukushima, Tokyo University of Technology

Title: Research and Development Status of Worm-type robots for Infrastructure Inspection

Abstract:

Research and development of mobile robots for maintaining a sustainable society in high demand in many areas, including robotic systems for environmental monitoring and resource investigation work, robots for disaster prevention, rescue, infrastructure maintenance, agriculture, medical and welfare supporting robots and other service robots, among others. In this talk, I will explain the basics of mechanical design and control architecture of long articulated body mobile robots. In particular, special attention will be given to development of a class of worm-type robot for infrastructure inspection.

Prof. Edwardo Fumihiko Fukushima received his B. Sc. in Electrical Engineering, Federal Center of Technological Education of Paraná, Brazil in 1989. Dr. Fukushima entered Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan, as a research student at Dept. of Mechanical Engineering Science in 1990; and received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in in Mechanical Engineering Science, Tokyo Institute of Technology in 1991 and 1993, respectively.

He jointed Tokyo Institute of Technology as Assistant Professor in 1994, Associate Professor in 2006. Since 2014, he has been Professor at Tokyo University of Technology. He was Visiting Researcher at Stanford University, USA for five months in 2001, and Visiting Scientist at Artificial Intelligent Laboratory, University of Zurich for one month in 2004.

Dr. Fukushima received the 5th Robotics Society of Japan Award for Applied Technology in 2000; the System Integration Award for Technological Achievement 2009 from the Society of Instrument and Control Engineers, Japan, in 2009; the Best Paper Award at the 3rd International Conference on Underwater System Technology (USYS'10) in 2010; and the Best Paper Award, 2014 IEEE/SICE International Symposium on System Integration (SII2014) in 2014.

He is member of the Robotics Society of Japan (RSJ), the Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers (JSME), the Society of Instrument and Control Engineers (SICE), and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).