NAIST
Human Robotics Laboratory
Robotics for Understanding, Assisting, and Augmenting Humans
We, human robotics lab. conducts research studies on fundamental research on intellectualization of robot, understanding human perception-action loop based on information science, and human machine system/human robot collaboration by combining them.
Through such research studies, we are aiming to define quality of operational feeling and motion comfort in intelligent mechanical systems that have interaction with humans, such as rehabilitation robots, lower limb prosthesis, and automobile. Examples of questions are "What is comfortable vehicle motion?" "What determines operability of automobiles / construction machine?", "What determines easiness of walking with an artificial leg?" , which leads to comfortable human machine systems.
Robotics: artificially constructing sensing through motion control
Human modeling: Understanding perception-action loop of human based on robotics & system science
A. Robotics
Fundamental research on hardware & software as well as industrial-oriented research
Robot manipulation, soft robotics, underwater robot, mobile robots
B. Human modeling
Understanding human sensory information processing & motion control from viewpoints of system science through experiments & computational modeling
Human motion perception, motion sickness modeling, Machine operator modeling, motion information in multi-link systems, biological cybernetics
C. Human Machine Systems
/Human Robot Collaboration
/Human Robot Collaboration
Human machine system with high comfort & easy-to-use by integrating researches on human modeling & robotics
physical Human-robot interaction, Haptic shared control, rehabilitation robotics, mitigation of motion sickness/VR sickness
D. Application to automotive domain
Researches related to automobile domain as an example of human machine systems
Comfortable automated driving systems, Human machine interface in vehicles, understanding driving skill/quality of operation feeling
[NEWS]
2024. 4. 1 [new member] Six master students have joined. Welcome!
2023. 9.25 One PhD Student (Dang Van Trong) and two master students (Dang Phuong Nam & Syafrudin Rais Akhdan) joined our lab. Welcome!
2023. 9.24 The follwoing workshop, proposed by Prof. Liu was accepted.
IEEE ITSC 2023 2ND WORKSHOP ON ARE YOU HAPPY WITH AV ? USER EXPERIENCE (UX) IN AV-HUMAN INTERACTION
Prof. Liu and Wada will give invited talks at the workshop.
2023. 7.13 [Invited Talk] Prof. Wada gave a talk on "Modeling of motion sickness and its application to automated vehicles" on Japan Society of Automotive Engineers Symposium
2023. 6.23 [New member] Ms.Yang Li from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany, has joined as an internship student. Welcome!
2023. 4.24 [New member] Mr.Arnaud Grondin from Toulouse 3 Paul Sabatier, France, has joined as an internship student. Welcome!
2023. 4.1 [New member] Mr.Lennart Moritz from Regensburg, Germany, has joined as an internship student. Welcome!
2023. 4.1 [New member] Five master students have joined. Welcome!
2022. 9.5 [New member] Ilhan Yunus, Sweden KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Volvo cars, is staying HuRo Lab. to conduct research on motion sickness modeling. Welcome!
2022. 6.1 [New member] Mr. Aimé Kazuki MITTEAU from ESIGELEC, France, has joined as an internship student. Welcome!
2022. 6.5 [Workshop] Dr. H. Liu organizes workshop on Are You Happy with AV? User Experience (UX) in AV-Human Interaction in IEEE International Symposium on Intelligent Vehicles 2022. Prof. T.Wada is invited to give a keynote lecture on the WS.
2022. 4.15 [New member] Mr. João Pedro Jantalia from Technical University of Munich, Germany, has joined as an internship student. Welcome!
2022. 4.1 [New member] Eleven master students have joined. Welcome!
2022. 4.1 [New member] Dr. Yasuaki Orita has joined as Assistant Professor. Welcome!
2022. 2.17 [Invited Talk] Prof. Wada will be invited to give a special lecture related to Human modeling research in Digital Human Technology Council.
2022. 1. 28 [Invited Talk] Prof. Wada is invited to give a special lecture on "Computational Models of Motion Sickness toward Ride Comfort of Vechiles", in Technical Exchange Meeting of Japan Society of Automotive Engineers Chubu Branch
2022.1.17 [New project] Collaboration with KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweeden has been accepted as the STINT project, funded by Sweden Government. www.stint.se/en/2022/01/17/7-projekt-har-beviljats-medel-for-nya-samarbeten-genom-initiation-grants/
2021.12 [New member] Michiko Honda has joined as a secretary of the lab. Welcome!
2021.12 [Social Service] Prof. Wada has joined Subcommittee of Practical Application of Future Technology, Advanced Safety Vehicle Committee, Menistry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism
2021.11.27 [Invited Talk] Prof. Wada gave a keynote speech "Toward Understanding Motion Comfort in Human Machine Systems" on the 42nd Conference on Society of Biomechanisms Japan
2021.11.1 [New member]Dr. Hailong Liu has joined as Specially-Appointed Assistant Professor. Welcome!
2021.10.1 [New member]A Research Student from Malaysia, Mr. Muhammad Akmal Bin Mohammed Zaffir has joined. Welcome!
2021.9.1 [Invited Talk] Prof. Wada gave a keynote presentation "Modeling Motion Sickness and Its Application to Automated Driving" in the 2nd Workshop on Motion Comfort in Automated Driving, sponsored by Chartered Institute of Ergonomics & Human Factors
2021.4.23 [New member] Five master students have joined. Welcome!
2021.4.1 NAIST Human Robotics Laboratory has been established.