IEEE
ICMA2006 Conference
Plenary
Talk
Hyper
Human Technology Opens a
New
World
-
Let us see the world that exceeds human capability -
Makoto
Kaneko, Ph.D.
Professor
Department
of Industrial
Engineering
Hiroshima
University
,
Japan
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Abstract:
The
Center Of Excellence (COE) program of Hyper Human
Technologies has started with two seed technologies at
Hiroshima
University
: One is the high speed vision with the frame rate of 1kHz and the
other one is the high speed actuation with a maximum acceleration of 100G,
where G is the gravitational acceleration. We are going to explore the field
using two different approaches: One is to pursue a further progress in each
fundamental technology and to apply various fields, such as robotics,
bio-mining, circuit diagnosis, and human health care. It should be noted that
we have recently succeeded in developing the high speed vision with the frame
rate of 10kHz. The other is to combine the knowledge
in the fields of high speed vision and high speed actuation to develop a high
speed dynamic sensing system, and apply it to both robotics and biomedical
engineering. As an example, we could develop a sensor system which can obtain
eye stiffness of human eye within 40msec. Recent results will be shown with
video tape demonstration.
Makoto
Kaneko
received BS in Mechanical Engineering from Kyushu Institute of Technology in
1976, and MS and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from
Tokyo
University
in 1978 and 1981, respectively. From 1981 to 1990 he was a researcher at the
Mechanical Engineering Laboratory (MEL), Ministry of International Trade and
Industry (MITI),
Tsukuba
Science
City
. From 1988 to 1989, he was a Post-Doctoral Fellow at Technical
University of Darmstadt, Germany, where he joined a space robotics project.
From 1990 to 1993, he was an Associate Professor with Computer Science and
System Engineering at Kyushu Institute of Technology. Since October 1993, he
has been a Professor of Industrial Engineering Department at
Hiroshima
University
. His research interests include active sensing, manipulation, and
medical application. Dr. Kaneko is a member of the IEEE Robotics and Automation
Society, the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society, and the IEEE
Industrial Electronics Society. During
2004-2005, he was a Vice President of IEEE Robotics and Automation Society.
Since 2004, he has been the Project Leader of COE program of Hyper Human
Technology toward the 21st Century Industrial Revolution.