Laboratories and Professors

Professors Specialities Research Subjects

Hiroyuki Ito

Combustion Engineering, Thermal Engineering

Biomass briquette manufacturing, Research on combustion characteristics of briquette and development of combustion instruments, Control of properties in bio-oil production, Elucidation and measurement of soot generation mechanism in flame

Hun-ok Lim

Robotics, Control Systems, Intelligent Mechanical Systems, Mechatronics

Humanoid Robots, Medical and welfare robots, Entertainment robots, Human friendly robots, Environmental recognition, Artificial intelligence robots

Tadashi Egami

Robotics, Intelligent Mechanical System, Control Engineering

Development of experimental climbers for the space elevator, Development and control of welfare robots, Development and control of infrastructure inspection robots and construction support robots

Kenichi Takemura

Composite Materials, Mechanics of Materials, Strength and Fracture of Materials

Fatigue, creep and impact properties of composite materials, Mechanical properties of natural fiber reinforced green composite, Improvement of injection molding method, Fracture mechanics of FRP

Atsushi Takano

Structural Mechanics, Aerospace Engineering

Research and development of ultra-small rockets, Manufacture of composite cylindrical shells, Research and experiments on Buckling strength, Improved strength and reliability of bolted joints / adhesive joints, Research and development of high-strength and high-rigidity structures using 3D printers, Statistical strength evaluation

Takeshi Terajima

Nonequilibrium Materials, Joining and Welding, Material Engineering

Development of the bulk amorphous alloy with extremely low glass transition temperature, Nonequilibrium material processing using pulse fiber laser

Yohichi Nakao

Machine Tools, Precision Mechanical Elements, Water Hydraulics Drive Systems, Control Engineering, Precision Machining

Development and control of spindle for machine tools, Development of precision machine elements, Thermal characteristics of machine tools, Precision machining, Development and control of water hydraulics actuators, Development of music instrument playing robots

Yuji Nakanishi

Fluid Engineering

Motion analysis of tidal power unit moored with a cable, Development of Turgo impulse turbines, Development of a trash removal device for small hydropower

Yoshihiko Haramura

Thermal Science and Engineering

Heat transfer mechanisms in high-heat flux boiling, Heat transfer characteristics of transition boiling, Linear and non-linear wave propagation in non-equilibrium gas

Toru Yamazaki

Mechanical Dynamics, Vibration, Acoustics

Modelling and prediction of mechanical noise and vibration based on Statistical Energy Analysis (SEA) and Structural Intensity (SI), Development of conceptual design procedure for structure-borne sound, Scientific analysis of musical instruments and design of low noise structure for mechanical systems, Development of the method to suppress the residual vibration for a nonlinear damped system by elimination of the natural frequency component

Akinori Yui

Grinding, Cutting, Laser Forming, Machine Tool

Research & Development of submerged solar power generation system, Laser assisted micro cutting of hard and brittle materials, Diamond wheel dressing using abrasive blast, High-speed-stroke grinding of turbine blade using linear motor driven grinding machine, Development of hydrostatic water table using constant flow bearing, Micro electric discharge machining