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【Research】The paper ''Rethinking the four-wing problem in plesiosaur swimming using bio-inspired decentralized control'' in Scientific Reports.
28 Oct 2024
Publication Details: Title：Rethinking the four-wing problem in plesiosaur swimming using bio-inspired decentralized control Author：Akira Fukuhara, Mitsutoshi Sato, Hasayuki Ogawa, Tamaki Sato, William Sellers, Akio Ishiguro
【Research】The paper ''Decentralized control law for load-adaptive gaits of multi-legged robots inspired by millipedes has been published'' in Advanced Robotics.
27 Sep 2024
Publication Details: Title：Decentralized control law for load-adaptive gaits of multi-legged robots inspired by millipedes Author：Kotaro Yasui, Atsushi Ohno, Takeshi Kano, Akio Ishiguro
【Award】Assistant Professor Akira Fukuhara in Ishiguro Laboratory received the 5th Excellent Presentation Award from the Robotics Society of Japan.
05 Sep 2024
"5th Excellent Presentation Award is presented to assistant professor Akira Fukuhara from The Robotics Society of Japan. The Presentation title is ''A multi-degree-of-freedom leg mechanism toward understanding polysemantic forelimb of carnivorous mammals.''" For details, please see the following page. Articles about the award
【Award】Mr. Motoki Murayama at Real-world computing (Ishiguro Laboratory) received Poster Presentation Award in annual meeting 2024 of Paleontological Society of Japan.
22 Jun 2024
"Mr. Motoki Murayama at Real-world computing (Ishiguro Laboratry) received Poster Presentation Award in annual meeting 2024 of Paleontological Society of Japan. The awared subject matter is entitled ""Effect of the rotational movement of the trunk on the inter-flipper coordination in plesiosaur swimming."
【Award】Assistant Professor Akira Fukuhara in Ishiguro Laboratory received the Certificate of Merit for Best Presentation (ROBOMECH2023) from the JSME Robotics and Mechatronics Division.
30 May 2024
Assistant Professor Akira Fukuhara in Ishiguro Laboratory received the Certificate of Merit for Best Presentation (ROBOMECH2023) from the JSME Robotics and Mechatronics Division. The presentation title is "Development of limb structure for quadruped robot that can generate stride motions and mimic flexible shoulder region."
【TV Appearance】Professor Akio Ishiguro and assistant professor Kotaro Yasui in Ishiguro Laboratory appeared on NHK TV program.
11 May 2024
Professor Akio Ishiguro and assistant professor Kotaro Yasui in Ishiguro Laboratory appeared on NHK TV program and introduced interesting locomotor behaviors of centipedes and our research results! For details, please see the following page. Articles about the appearance
【Award】Mr. Motoki Murayama at Real-world computing (Ishiguro-Kano Laboratry) received Presentation Award for Young Researcher in 36th SICE Symposium on Decentralized Autonomous Systems.
18 Feb 2024
Mr. Motoki Murayama at Real-world computing (Ishiguro-Kano Laboratry) received Presentation Award for Young Researcher in 36th SICE Symposium on Decentralized Autonomous Systems. The awared subject matter is entitled "Reconstruction of plesiosaur swimming pattern considering trunk posture and inter-flipper coordination."
【Award】Mr.Shoei Hattori (Doctor's Student) won 'Excellent Research and Technology Award in 4th'.
13 Sep 2023
Mr.Shoei Hattori (Doctor's Student) won "Excellent Research and Technology Award n 4th" for his presentation at The 40th Annual Conference of the RSJ. The presentation title is "Proposal of a leg-trunk linkage mechanism inspired by the myofascial meridian of quadrupedal animals".
【Award】 Assistant Professor A.Fukuhara received 'the 11th Advanced Robotics Best Paper Award from the Robotics Society of Japan'!
13 Sep 2023
"The Robotics Society of Japan 2023 Advanced Robotics Best Paper Award" is presented to Akira Fukuhara, Megu Gunji and Yoichi Masuda for the paper entitled "Comparative anatomy of quadruped robots and animals: a review" published in Advanced Robotics, the International Journal of the Robotics Society of Japan, Vol36, No.13, pp.612-630,...
【Press Release】 Research results regarding worms have been released!
29 Aug 2023
Research results regarding worms have been press released! Please check the page below for details. Press Release Article(Japanese) Press Release Article(English) Paper University Journal Nikkei(Japan Economic Times)
【Research】 The paper 'Active-sensing-based decentralized control of autonomous mobile agents for quick and smooth collision avoidance.' has been published in Frontiers in Robotics and AI!
14 Nov 2022
Publication Details: Author: T. Kano, T. Kanno, T. Mikami and A. Ishiguro Title: "Active-sensing-based decentralized control of autonomous mobile agents for quick and smooth collision avoidance." Journal: Frontiers in Robotics and AI DOI: 10.3389/frobt.2022.992716
【Notification of Change of Laboratory website address】
28 Mar 2022
Laboratory website address has been changed. From now on, please access from the following address! www.cmplx.riec.tohoku.ac.jp
【Research】 The paper 'Adaptive Interlimb Coordination Mechanism for Hexapod Locomotion Based on Active Load Sensing' has been published in Frontiers in Neurorobotics!
15 Feb 2022
Publication Details: A. Fukuhara, W. Suda, T. Kano, R. Kobayashi, and A. Ishiguro Title: "Adaptive Interlimb Coordination Mechanism for Hexapod Locomotion Based on Active Load Sensing" Journal: Frontiers in Neurorobotics doi: 10.3389/fnbot.2022.645683
【Press release】Our research on salamanders walking was featured in press releases!
15 Oct 2021
Tohoku Universiry: "Decoding how salamanders walk" https://www.tohoku.ac.jp/en/press/decoding_how_salamanders_walk.html
【News!】Shoei Hattori (master’s student) has been selected as JSPS research fellowship for young scientists (DC1)!
14 Oct 2021
Shoei Hattori (master’s student) has been selected as JSPS research fellowship for young scientists (DC1)! Congratulations!
【Research】 The paper 'Emergence of Robust Self-Organized Undulatory Swimming Based on Local Hydrodynamic Force Sensing' has been published in Science Robotics!
25 Sep 2021
Publication Details: Author: R. Thandiackal, K. Melo, L. Paez, J. Herault, T. Kano, K. Akiyama, F. Boyer, D. Ryczko, A. Ishiguro, A. J. Ijspeert Title: Emergence of Robust Self-Organized Undulatory Swimming Based on Local Hydrodynamic Force Sensing" Journal: Science Robotics DOI: 10.1126/scirobotics.abf6354
【Research】 The paper 'Tegotae-Based Control Produces Adaptive Inter- and Intra-limb Coordination in Bipedal Walking' has been published in Frontiers in Neurorobotics!
12 May 2021
Publication Details: Dai Owaki, Shun-ya Horikiri, Jun Nishii and Akio Ishiguro Title: Tegotae-Based Control Produces Adaptive Inter- and Intra-limb Coordination in Bipedal Walking" Journal: Frontiers in Neurorobotics DOI: 10.3389/fnbot.2021.629595
【Research】 The paper 'Decentralised Control of Multiple Mobile Agents for Quick, Smooth, and Safe Movement' has been published in Physica A!
09 Mar 2021
Publication Details: T. Kano, M. Iwamoto, D. Ueyama Title: Decentralised Control of Multiple Mobile Agents for Quick, Smooth, and Safe Movement" Journal: Physica A DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2021.125898
【Research】 The paper about body-limb coordination of quadruped was published in Frontiers in Neurorobotics
13 Jan 2021
Publication Details: Authors: S. Suzuki, T. Kano, A. J. Ijspeert, A. Ishiguro Title: Sprawling Quadruped Robot Driven by Decentralized Control with Cross-coupled Sensory Feedback between Legs and Trunk Journal: Frontiers in Neurorobotics DOI: 10.3389/fnbot.2020.607455
【Research】 The paper about model of the interrelation between the COVID-19 outbreak amd economic activities was published in Proceedings of the Royal Society A
13 Jan 2021
Publication Details: Authors: T. Kano, K. Yasui, T. Mikami, M. Asally, and A. Ishiguro Title: An agent-based model of the interrelation between the COVID-19 outbreak and economic activities Journal: Proceedings of the Royal Society A DOI: 10.1098/rspa.2020.0604
【Research】 The paper about community formation process of vampire bats was published in Artificial Life and Robotics
20 Oct 2020
Publication Details: Authors: Taishi Mikami,Takeshi Kano and Akio Ishiguro Title: An agent-based model for community formation process of vampire bats that survive by sharing food Journal: Artificial Life and Robotics DOI: 10.1007/s10015-020-00649-9
【Research】 The paper about snakes locomotion was published in Integrative and Comparative Biology
27 Jul 2020
Publication Details: Authors: Takeshi Kano, Akio Ishiguro Title: Decoding Decentralized Control Mechanism Underlying Adaptive and Versatile Locomotion of Snakes Journal: Integrative and Comparative Biology DOI: 10.1093/icb/icaa014
Congratulations to Tomoyuki!
07 Jul 2020
Tomoyuki Baba was awarded the 2019 Dean of Engineering Award for his outstanding scores during his bachelor. Congrats, and keep it up!
【Research】 The paper about swarm robot was published in Artificial Life
23 Jun 2020
Publication Details: Authors: Takeshi Kano, Eiichi Naito, Takenobu Aoshima and Akio Ishiguro Title: Decentralized control for swarm robots that can effectively execute spatially distributed tasks Journal: Artificial Life DOI: 10.1162/artl_a_00317
【News!】Our research on amphibious locomotion of centipedes was featured in international web news!
07 Jan 2020
2019/12/03: Mirage News "Navigating Land and Water: How centipedes walk and swim" 2019/12/04: ICI Radio-Canada "Comment les mille-pattes passent-ils si facilement de la marche à la nage?"（仏語） 2019/12/09: Phys.org "Navigating land and water: How centipedes walk and swim" Science Daily "How centipedes navigate through land and water" Asia Research News...
【Research】 The paper about brittle star locomotion was published in Frontiers in Neurorobotics
17 Dec 2019
Publication Details: Authors: Takeshi Kano, Daichi Kanauchi, Tatsuya Ono, Hitoshi Aonuma and Akio Ishiguro Title: Flexible Coordination of Flexible Limbs: Decentralized Control Scheme for Inter- and Intra-Limb Coordination in Brittle Stars' Locomotion" Journal: Frontiers in Neurorobotics DOI: 10.3389/fnbot.2019.00104
【Press release】Our research on amphibious locomotion of centipedes was published in press releases!
06 Dec 2019
Tohoku University： "Navigating Land and Water: How Centipedes Walk and Swim” https://www.tohoku.ac.jp/en/press/navigating_land_and_water.html Video summary： https://youtu.be/gLMrh_6r760 University of Ottawa： "New research sheds light on animal locomotion" https://media.uottawa.ca/news/new-research-sheds-light-animal-locomotion Hokkaido University: https://www.hokudai.ac.jp/news/191203_pr3.pdf Human Frontier Science Program: https://www.hfsp.org/hfsp-news-events/navigating-land-and-water-how-centipedes-walk-and-swim
【Research】 The paper about amphibious locomotion of centipedes was published in Scientific Reports
03 Dec 2019
Publication Details: Authors: K. Yasui, T. Kano, E. M. Standen, H. Aonuma, A. J. Ijspeert and A. Ishiguro Title: Decoding the essential interplay between central and peripheral control in adaptive locomotion of amphibious centipedes Journal: Scientific Reports DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-53258-3
【Research】 The paper about sprawling locomotion was published in Bioinpiration & Biomimetics
24 Sep 2019
Publication Details: Authors: Shura Suzuki, Takeshi Kano, Auke Jan Ijspeert, and Akio Ishiguro Title: Decentralized control with cross-coupled sensory feedback between body and limbs in sprawling locomotion Journal: Bioinpiration & Biomimetics DOI: 10.1088/1748-3190/ab3ef6
【Research】 The paper about brittle star locomotion was published in Frontiers in Neurorobotics
23 Aug 2019
Publication Details: Authors: Takeshi Kano, Daichi Kanauchi, Hitoshi Aonuma, Elizabeth G. Clark, and Akio Ishiguro Title: Decentralized Control Mechanism for Determination of Moving Direction in Brittle Stars With Penta-Radially Symmetric Body Journal: Frontiers in Neurorobotics DOI: 10.3389/fnbot.2019.00066
【Research】 The paper about Tegotae function was published in Bioinpiration & Biomimetics
09 Aug 2019
Publication Details: Authors: Takeshi Kano, Ryu Wakimoto, Mitsutoshi Sato, Ayumi Shinohara, and Akio Ishiguro Title: Designing higher fourier harmonics of Tegotae function using genetic algorithm — a case study with an earthworm locomotion — Journal: Bioinpiration & Biomimetics DOI: 10.1088/1748-3190/ab2fab
【Research】 The paper about quadruped running was published in Adaptive Behavior
06 Aug 2019
Publication Details: Authors: Akira Fukuhara, Yukihiro Koizumi, Shura Suzuki, Takeshi Kano, and Akio Ishiguro Title: Decentralized control mechanism for body–limb coordination in quadruped running Journal: Adaptive Behavior DOI: 10.1177/1059712319865180
【Research】 The paper about sea roach locomotion was published in Scientific Reports
27 Feb 2019
Publication Details: Authors: Takeshi Kano, Yoshihito Ikeshita, Akira Fukuhara and Akio Ishiguro Title: Body-limb coordination mechanism underlying speed-dependent gait transitions in sea roaches Journal: Scientific Reports, 9:2848(2019) DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-39862-3
【lab. event】baseball match
26 Dec 2018
【lab. event】Imoni Party and Long Distance Relay Race
14 Nov 2018
Akira Fukuhara promoted to assistant professor
11 Oct 2018
Akira Fukuhara has been promoted to assistant professor since 1st of October. Congratulations!
【Conference】ROBOMECH2018 in Kitakyushu
13 Jun 2018
We participated in ROBOMECH 2018.
【News!】Our brittle-star-like robot was featured in international web news!
18 Dec 2017
NewAtlas(2017.12.15) Bioinspired robot easily adapts to lost appendages Electronics 360(2017.12.14) Watch: Robot That Can Adapt to Physical Damage Was Inspired by Brittle Stars ScienceDaily(2017.12.14) Brittle stars inspire new generation robots able to adapt to physical damage
【Press release】Brittle Stars inspire new generation robots able to adapt to physical damage
13 Dec 2017
Tohoku University “Brittle Stars inspire new generation robots able to adapt to physical damage” https://www.tohoku.ac.jp/en/press/brittle_stars_inspire_new_robots.html EurekAlart! Brittle stars inspire new generation robots able to adapt to physical damage Research Sea Brittle stars inspire new generation robots able to adapt to physical damage youtube https://youtu.be/Jq4L4ZKpXq0
【Research】 The paper about our brittle star-like robot (Takeshi Kano, Eiki Sato, Tatsuya Ono, Hitoshi Aonuma, Yoshiya Matsuzaka, and Akio Ishiguro) was published in Royal Society Open Science.
13 Dec 2017
Publication Details: Authors: Takeshi Kano, Eiki Sato, Tatsuya Ono, Hitoshi Aonuma, Yoshiya Matsuzaka, and Akio Ishiguro Title: A Brittle Star-like Robot Capable of Immediately Adapting to Unexpected Physical Damage Journal: Royal Society Open Science, Vol. 4, 171200, 2017 DOI: 10.1098/rsos.171200 （リンク先）http://rsos.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/4/12/171200
【Research】The paper about the minimal model of collective behavior was published in Journal of the Physical Society of Japan
16 Nov 2017
Publication Details: Authors: Takeshi Kano, Koichi Osuka, Toshihiro Kawakatsu and Akio Ishiguro Title: Mathematical Analysis for Non-reciprocal-interaction-based Model of Collective Behavior Journal of the Physical Society of Japan, 86, 124004 (2017). Doi: 10.7566/JPSJ.86.124004
【News】Since 1st October 2017, Assist. Prof. Dai Owaki has moved to Dept. of Robotics, Graduate School of Engineering, Tohoku University.
01 Oct 2017
Dai Owaki (Assistant Professor ) has moved to Neuro-robotics Lab., Dept. of Robotics, Graduate School of Engineering, Tohoku University, since 1st October 2017. Hayashibe Lab.: http://neuro.mech.tohoku.ac.jp Dai Owaki: http://oscillex.org/
【Research】The paper about minimal model of collective behavior was accepted for oral presentation in ECAL 2017.
04 Aug 2017
Publication Details: Authors: Takeshi Kano, Koichi Osuka, Toshihiro Kawakatsu, Naoki Matsui, and Akio Ishiguro Title: A Minimal Model of Collective Behaviour Based on Non-reciprocal Interactions Proceedings of the 14th European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL 2017)
【Research】The paper about snake locomotion was published in Bioinspiration & Biomimetics.
04 Aug 2017
Publication Details: Authors: Takeshi Kano, Ryo Yoshizawa, and Akio Ishiguro Title: Tegotae-based decentralised control scheme for autonomous gait transition of snake-like robots Bioinspiration & Biomimimetics, 12, 046009 (2017). Doi: 10.1088/1748-3190/aa7725
【lab. event】TESP Robotics
03 Aug 2017
TESP Robotics students came to our lab. and we showed our robots, animals, and lab. equipments.
【lab. event】open campus
26 Jul 2017
【lab. event】Genghis Khan party
18 Jul 2017
【lab. event】baseball match
11 Jul 2017
【lab. event】Robot presentation
07 Jul 2017
【conference】AMAM2017
30 Jun 2017
【Research】The paper about our hexapod robot was published in Frontiers in Neurorobotics.
09 Jun 2017
Publication Details: Authors: Dai Owaki, Masashi Goda, Sakiko Miyazawa and Akio Ishiguro Title: A Minimal Model Describing Hexapedal Interlimb Coordination: The Tegotae-Based Approach Journal: Frontiers in Neurorobotics DOI: 10.3389/fnbot.2017.00029
【conference】ROBOMECH2017
11 May 2017
【Research】 The paper about our multi-legged robot was published in Bioinspiration & Biomimetics.
04 Apr 2017
Publication Details: Authors: Takeshi Kano, Kazuhiko Sakai, Kotaro Yasui, Dai Owaki and Akio Ishiguro Title: Decentralized control mechanism underlying interlimb coordination of millipedes Journal: Bioinspiration & Biomimetics
【News!】Our quadruped robot was featured in international web news!
31 Mar 2017
Electronics Weekly(2017.3.23): 「Four-leg robot spontaneously trots, canters, then gallops」 Inverse.com(2017.3.23): 「Four-Legged Machines are Proto 'Westworld' Robots」
【Press release】Quadruped robot exhibits spontaneous changes in step with speed
22 Mar 2017
Tohoku University "Quadruped robot exhibits spontaneous changes in step with speed" EurekAret!　"Quadruped robot exhibits spontaneous changes in step with speed" ResearchSea"Quadruped robot exhibits spontaneous changes in step with speed"
【Research】 The paper about our quadruped robot (Dai Owaki and Akio Ishiguro) was published in Scientific Reports.
21 Mar 2017
Publication Details: Authors: Dai Owaki and Akio Ishiguro Title: A Quadruped Robot Exhibiting Spontaneous Gait Transitions from Walking to Trotting to Galloping Journal: Scientific Reports DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-00348-9
Takeshi Kano promoted to associate professor
03 Oct 2016
Takeshi Kano has been promoted to associate professor since 1st of October. Congratulations!!
Team page
18 Apr 2016
We updated Team page. Welcome to all the new members!
Ohanami party!
04 Apr 2016
After a very warm winter, sakura came early this year! We had a marvelous hanami, together with our guests from Finnland including Jenna Sutela whose slime-mold inspired art was recently exhibited in Tokyo! We all had a great time, with some excellent sake, food, company and beautiful sakura views!
Congratulations to Sakiko!
24 Mar 2016
Sakiko was awarded the 2015 Dean of Engineering Award for her outstanding scores during her bachelor. Congrats, and keep it up!
Snake Gaits!
06 Oct 2015
Yesterday we visited the Yagiyama zoo, to get some real hands-on experience with snake-gaits! We got an hour to set up some tests and play with a couple of japanese rat snakes, a very pretty, light-blue and docile snake (at least the two we got to handle were). We had...
Back from AMAM!
13 Jul 2015
End of last month we attended AMAM (Adaptive Motion of Animals and Machines), which was a blast! We had several posters showing, Takeshi gave a short talk and Akio-sensei gave the final keynote, which seems to have been well received. There were countless other interesting and fun talks, for example,...
New website
08 Jun 2015
We are currently in the process of moving to this new website, with both English and Japanese! We will be gradually filling in information, please stay tuned! Please do not hesitate to contact us directly if you cannot find the information you're looking for. For contact info, see the Team...
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