Date: 12th May (Fri), 2023
Venue: the conference room on the 3rd floor of Ito Research Center, the University of Tokyo
Fees:
| Jc-IFToMM Member: | Free |
| IFToMM Community: | 10,000 JPY |
| Regular Attendees: | 15,000 JPY |
| Students: | 2,000 JPY |
| Participants from overseas (except Japanese participants) can join the symposium via an online platform, and fee is free in that case (Events except the symposium (lab tour etc.) are excluded). |
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| Opening ceremony | |
| 9:30 | Opening address by Nobuyuki Iwatsuki (Tokyo Tech.), President of Jc-IFToMM |
| Session 1 Mechanisms (9:35 – 10:35) | Chair: Akio Yamamoto (Univ. Tokyo) |
| 9:35 | Self-excited valve inspired by vocal code *Hiroyuki Nabae, Eigo Kitamura, Koichi Suzumori (Tokyo Tech.) |
| 9:50 | Multiobjective optimization of a cable-driven robot for wrist rehabilitation using a genetic algorithm *Andrea Botta (Tokyo Tech./Politecnico di Torino), Giuseppe Quaglia (Politecnico di Torino), Yukio Takeda (Tokyo Tech.) |
| 10:05 | Adaptive landing of an underactuated leg mechanism constrained with springs and its application to walking robot Yuma Yokota, *Nobuyuki Iwatsuki, Kotaro Hoshiba (Tokyo Tech.) |
| 10:20 | Generation method of polygonal shapes with fillets bases on the gear meshing theory *Daisuke Matsuura, Daisuke Hashioka, Tsune Kobayashi (Tokyo Tech.) |
| Break (10:35 – 10:45) | |
| Keynote Talk (10:45 – 11:15) | Chair: Nobuyuki Iwatsuki (Tokyo Tech.) |
| 10:45 | Robot and navigation system for minimally invasive surgery Prof. Etsuko Kobayashi (Univ. Tokyo) |
| Advanced Research Seminar (11:15 – 11:45) | Chair: Kenji Hashimoto (Waseda Univ.) |
| 11:15 | In vitro study using mechanical vibration for the development of regenerative therapy application Prof. Chikahiro Imashiro (Univ. Tokyo) |
| Lunch Break (11:45 – 12:45) | |
| 12:45 – 14:00 | General Assembly of Jc-IFToMM (Jc-IFToMM members only) |
| Break (14:00 – 14:10) | |
| Session 2 Human assistive devices (14:10 – 15:25) | Chair: Masaharu Komori (Kyoto Univ.) |
| 14:10 | An assistive device for ankle motion *Takamaru Saito, Jiang Ming, Yusuke Sugahara, Yukio Takeda (Tokyo Tech.), Marco Ceccarelli (Univ. of Rome Tor Vergata) |
| 14:25 | Stacked and folded bimetal sheets as a compliant actuator *Noritomo Kota, Shunsuke Yoshimoto, Akio Yamamoto (Univ. Tokyo) |
| 14:40 | 3D human motion acquisition and evaluation system based on openpose and 3D reconstruction for remote rehabilitation and exercise *Keisuke Osawa, Yu You, Yi Sun, Shun Zhang (Waseda Univ.), Megumi Shimodozono (Kagoshima Univ.), Eiichiro Tanaka (Waseda Univ.) |
| 14:55 | A friction-based passive haptic mouse using 2-stage electro-adhesion *Naoya Matsutani, Shunsuke Yoshimoto, Akio Yamamoto (Univ. Tokyo) |
| 15:10 | Design and simulation of a novel finger exoskeleton based on shape memory alloy actuators |
| Break (15:25 – 15:35) | |
| Session 3: Modeling and evaluation (15:35 – 16:50) | Chair: Yukio Takeda (Tokyo Tech.) |
| 15:35 | Mobile robotics for industrial applications *Rocco Galati, Giacomo Mantriota, Giulio Reina (Polytechnic Univ. of Bari) |
| 15:50 | Head shaking test: human balance ability evaluation test by estimating control parameters for fall preventions *Emiko Uchiyama (Univ. Tokyo), Wataru Takano (Osaka Univ.), Yoshihiko Nakamura, Tomoki Tanaka, Katsuya Iijima (Univ. Tokyo) |
| 16:05 | User-firendly interface for trajectory learning of an assistive mobile manipulator *Lorenzo Baglieri, Luigi Tagliavini, Andrea Botta, Giovanni Colucci, Giuseppe Quaglia (Politecnico di Torino) |
| 16:20 | Experimental testing of the torveastro astronaut robot *Jorge Enrique Araque Ishidro, Marco Ceccarelli (Univ. of Rome Tor Vergata) |
| 16:35 | Experimental characterization of a flexible joint with controlled stiffness for the development of a rehabilitation passive hand *Mohammad Jabari, Giovanni Colucci, Luigi Tagliavini, Lorenzo Baglieri, Carmen Visconte (Politecnico di Torino) |
| Break (16:50 – 17:00) | |
| Closing Ceremony | |
| 17:00 | Young Investigator Fund, Best Paper Award Ceremony Chair: Atsushi Konno (Hokkaido Univ.) |
| 17:15 | Closing address by Masaharu Komori (Kyoto Univ.), Vice-president of Jc-IFToMM |