报告题目：Processing and Application of Physiological and Motor Signals in Assistive Robotics

报告人：Jinhua She, Professor

主持人：张文安

报告时间：2025年3月17日（周一）9：00

报告地点：信息楼D533

报告摘要：

Japan entered a super-aged society [percentage of old people (≥ 65 yrs old) ≥ 21%] in 2005. Nowadays, the aging problem in Japan is very serious. As a measure to cope with aging, research related to assistive robots has been widely carried out. In this talk, I will explain how we process physiological and motor signals and make full use of them to build control systems for the assistive robots we have developed, using examples of an electric trolley, a left-right independent treadmill, and a sit-to-stand assistive machine.

报告人简介

Dr. She received his B.S. degree in engineering from Central South University, Changsha, China, in 1983; and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in engineering from Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan, in 1990 and 1993, respectively. In 1993, he joined the School of Engineering, Tokyo University of Technology, where he is currently a professor.

Dr. She's research interests include the applications of control theory, repetitive control, active disturbance rejection, and assistive robotics. He has published more than 400 journal papers and 6 monographs. He received the IFAC (International Federation of Automatic Control) Control Engineering Practice Paper Prize in 1999 (jointly with M. Wu and M. Nakano), and was included in the list of Thomson Reuters' Highly Cited Researchers from 2013 to 2015 and World’s Top 2% Scientists since 2019.

Dr. She is an IEEE Fellow, serves as an IEEE HI-TC Advisory Board member (2021-present) and an AdCom member of IEEE IES (2022-2024), was the Delegate of Cluster 4 of IEEE IES Technical Committees (2019-2021), and the chair of the Technical Committee on Human Factors (2017-2018). He is an Associated Editor of IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Industrial Electronics, and IEEJ Journal of Industry Applications, Journal of Advanced Computational Intelligence and Intelligent Informatics, and Intelligence & Robotics; and a Technical Editor of IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics.

报告题目：Traction Control for Electric Vehicles Starting on an Uphill Road by Torque Function Control with Bias Torque

报告人：Shigeyuki Takagi, Professor

主持人：张文安

报告时间：2025年3月17日（周一）9：40

报告地点：信息楼D533

报告摘要

We have proposed the new torque function control (TFC) method with the bias torque to improve the acceleration performance and the slip suppression performance of electric vehicles (EVs) starting on an uphill road, and obtained the method how to optimize the bias torque. This optimization gives the maximum bias torque satisfying that there is only one vehicle stationary point on the stable area of the road friction function.  We evaluated the effectiveness of the TFC method using the optimized bias torque for EV starting on an uphill road by simulations and experiments. In the simulations, the slip phenomenon is suppressed rapidly and continuously due to the optimized bias torque. In the experiments using the EV carrying one person, when using the proposed TFC method with the optimized bias torque, the vehicle speed is 1.7 times at 3 s compared with the EV accelerates with slipping.

报告人简介

     Prof. Takagi received the B.S.E.E. and M.S.E.E. from Nagoya University. He joined Toshiba Corporation in 1984 and developed a high-voltage, high-current semiconductor switch power supply for gas lasers. He became a professor in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Tokyo University of Technology in 2015. His research interests include power electronics, batteries, digital controls, simulation, and electric vehicles. Prof. Takagi is a member of the Institute of Electrical Engineers of Japan (IEE of Japan) and the Japan Society of Applied Physics.

报告题目：Project-Based Learning for University Education

报告人：Seiichi Kawata (川田誠一), Professor Dr. Eng.

主持人：张文安

报告时间：2025年3月17日（周一）10：20

报告地点：信息楼D533

报告摘要

In this talk, I would like to explain about project-based learning (PBL) for university education. The main contents are as follows.

PBL for university education fosters hands-on learning, enhances problem-solving skills, encourages teamwork, offers real-world relevance, promotes interdisciplinary learning, and stimulates creativity and innovation. The PBL process and implementation methods involve setting project goals and outcomes, building and planning PBL projects, facilitating student teams, managing resources and support, monitoring and evaluating project progress, and implementing PBL. The process will encompass reflection and evaluation, culminating in a discussion on how individual students will be graded within group PBL. This will include specific references to rubrics for project evaluation, weekly reports, self and peer assessments, learning portfolios, supervisory evaluations, oral responses and presentations, and reviews from industry experts.

报告人简介

       Prof. Dr.(工学博士) Seiichi Kawata (川田誠一) is a professor (教授) at China University of Geoscience Wuhan (中国地質大学武漢) from September 2022. His bachelor’s degree (1977), master’s degree (1979) and doctor degree (1983) are from Osaka University Japan. He was a Research Associate at Osaka University (大阪大学) during 1982-1986. He was a Research Associate at Tokyo Metropolitan University (東京都立大学) during 1986-1990. He was an Associate Professor at Tokyo Metropolitan University (東京都立大学) from 1990 to 2000. He was a professor at Tokyo Metropolitan University (東京都立大学) from 2000 to 2006. He was a Dean (院長) and Professor at Advanced Institute of Industrial Technology (東京都立産業技術大学院大学) during 2006-2016. He was a President (校長) of the Advanced Institute of Industrial Technology, and He was also a Vice Chairperson (副理事長) of the Board of Trustees of Tokyo Metropolitan University Public University Corporation (東京都公立大学法人)2016-2022.

He was a member of the Cabinet Office Fourth Industrial Revolution Human Resource Development Promotion Council Member Japan. He was a Chairman of the Study Group on the Fourth Industrial Revolution Skill Acquisition Course Certification System, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry Japan. He was a Chairman of the Fourth Industrial Revolution Skill Acquisition Course Accreditation Review Committee, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, Japan. He was a Regular Member of the Establishment Council of Universities and School Corporations, Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Japan. He is a SICE (The Society of Instrument and Control Engineers, Japan) Fellow and a Chairperson of APEN (Asia Professional Education Network). He is a member of IEEE, JSME (The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers), SICE (The Society of Instrument and Control Engineers, Japan), and JSAI (The Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence).

He published many papers in the field of Control engineering applications for industrial problems, soft computing applications for manufacturing systems optimization, Development of integrated simulators of discrete event systems and continuous systems, and Service engineering.

报告题目：Advancements in Wearable Biosensors and Volatile Organic Compound Bio-imaging Systems for Healthcare Monitoring

报告人：Takahiro Arakawa, Associate Professor

主持人：张文安

报告时间：2025年3月17日（周一）11：00

报告地点：信息楼D533

报告摘要

The measurement of biophysical quantities of the human body has garnered significant attention in the medical and healthcare fields. Wearable sensors have emerged as promising tools for monitoring relevant parameters in healthcare, sports, and medical applications. Leveraging biophysical information with these systems is expected to enable proactive health management, thereby improving public health and reducing medical expenditure. This paper discusses two types of wearable biosensors: tear and saliva glucose biosensors. Our group has developed soft contact lens biosensors for tear chemicals and oral cavity biosensors, such as mouthguard biosensors for salivary analysis. Challenges related to integrating biosensors into monitoring biological information and daily medicine are also addressed. Moreover, recent advancements in analytical devices have facilitated the measurement of minute amounts of odorous materials and volatile chemical compounds. Human breath and skin volatiles, including gases from halitosis and body odor, contain compounds indicative of metabolic processes and specific ailments. Measurement of these volatile biological compounds holds promise for simplifying metabolic capacity evaluation, medical diagnostics, and disease screening. We have developed a novel two-dimensional fluorometric imaging system for detecting ethanol vapor released from human breath and palm skin. This imaging system measures ethanol vapor concentrations by analyzing the fluorescence intensity of nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NADH) through an enzymatic reaction induced by alcohol dehydrogenase. The NADH fluorometric imaging system enables real-time, two-dimensional imaging of ethanol vapor distribution at ppb concentration levels. We applied this imaging system to measure breath ethanol vapor and skin ethanol vapor from a human palm, demonstrating rapid and accurate responses with visible measurements. This technology holds promise for real-time analysis of metabolism function in the near future.

报告人简介

     Dr. Takahiro Arakawa is currently an Associate Professor of Department of Electric and Electronic Engineering, Tokyo University of  Technology since 2021. He received his BS, MS degrees from Waseda University in 2002 and 2004, respectively. He finished the Ph.D. course in Nano-science and Nano-engineering, and received the Ph.D. degree in “Microfluidic system for cell analysis” Waseda University in 2007. In 2008, he joined a post-doctoral research fellow of Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS, PD) at the Laboratory of Bioanalytical Chemistry the University of Tokyo. Since 2009, he was an Assistant professor of Tokyo Medical and Dental University (Department of Biomedical Devices and Instrumentation). He has been a Junior Associate Professor since 2014. He joined Departments of Electrical Engineering and Bioengineering at University California Los Angeles as a visiting researcher from 2017 to 2018. His research interests include microfluidics, bio micro electro mechanical system (Bio-MEMS), biosensors, optical system and bio microsystems for medical applications.