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Walking navigation using waist-type hanger reflex

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Walking navigation using waist-type hanger reflex

Walking navigation tools such as Google Maps require the process to interpret information of navigator by looking at it. When we use it during walking, our attention is spent for interpreting the information of navigator, which leads to a problem of safety. In order to solve this problem, Kajimoto Laboratory focused on “waist-type hanger reflex”, which is an illusory “rotation” phenomenon accompanied with skin deformation around waist, and investigated the influence of the waist-type hanger reflex on walking. The laboratory finally developed a prototype that doesn’t require interpretation of information. Kajimoto Laboratory welcomes companies that are willing to use and cooperate with this technology.

By hyperspectral camera and machine learning, Fiduciary analysis service

Medical Engineering Collaboration / Life SciencesITManufacturing

By hyperspectral camera and machine learning, Fiduciary analysis service

MILK Inc. is a venture company from university. The company names the system that combines the hyper spectrum and the original cancer detection AI as "ANSWER" and provides contract analysis service.
We analyze data measured using hyperspectral camera made by Hokkaido Satellite Co., Ltd. They assured the quality of the hyperspectral data in terms of the spectral consistency. Our analysis includes not only neural network related algorithm but also SVM, KNN, random forest and so on. This enables high-precision classification and robust prediction compared to conventional measurement reports. The hyperspectral camera can be installed on a microscope to find subtle structural changes and defects. Moreover, it can be applied to discrimination and analysis that could not be used until now, such as the identification of malignant tumors and the count of lymphocytes. Of course, you can use "ANSWER" in the field that uses a conventional hyper-spectral camera. For example, it allows for higher precision analysis of food, quantification of components, and classification of freshness.

Research on FRIT (data-driven controller tuning method)

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Research on FRIT (data-driven controller tuning method)

In order to perform advanced control, it is common for a person with high control know-how to design and manufacture an optimal controller based on a large set of input and output data. We have been studying FRIT, a control method that enables design of a highly precise controller using only one set of input and output data. FRIT can learn online which allows tuning in real time, for example, to a controller that matches the performance characteristics of a person. Therefore, it can be applied not only to general controller design but also to artificial muscles, rehabilitation equipment, wheelchairs, driving assistance, and so on. We welcome companies that are motivated in utilizing this technology.

Axial fiber-reinforced artificial muscles with more than 8-fold larger output density than Mckibben type ones that realize low cost and high durability

Medical Engineering Collaboration / Life SciencesManufacturing

Axial fiber-reinforced artificial muscles with more than 8-fold larger output density than Mckibben type ones that realize low cost and high durability

Pneumatic rubber artificial muscles are one of the actuators that can obtain power by injecting fluid such as air into elastic material like rubber, and Mckibben type artificial muscle is a typical example. In Nakamura group, we have developed an artificial muscle with an output density eight-fold higher than that of the Mckibben type artificial muscles, which is low cost and has high durability. It can be used as human body-mounted power assist devices and driving devices for medical and rehabilitation purposes. Since it can be driven in water and powder, it can also be used as an alternative for pneumatic cylinders in factories.