Prof. MakotoKaneko

Osaka University, Japan

Topic

Beyond Human Technology and its Robot Application

Abstract

    This talk begins by what is “Beyond Human Technology”. Knowing of the limitation of human perception and action, we show how to design an artificial system leading to “Beyond Human” by utilizing two kernel components, an online high speed vision and a high speed actuator where both speeds are several hundred times faster than human eye and muscle, respectively. We introduce a couple of examples for robot application. The first example is “The 100G capturing robot”, where G is the gravitational acceleration. The 100G capturing robot can capture an object moving with the speed of more than 4m/s. We would note that it is too fast to see what is happening during the catching motion. The second one is “Two-fingered hyper human robot hand”, where this robot can capture an stick-like object with both rotational and translational motion in a low friction table. The third one is “Hyper plate manipulation learnt from pizza master”, where the robot can manipulate a pizza-like object on the flat plate dexterously based on the information of online high speed vision. The forth one is “Hyper magician”, where the robot can make a card magic even faster than human magician. The piercing gripper will be also introduced for food handling. All topics will be explained together with video demonstration.

Biology

    Makoto Kaneko (M’88-SM’03-F’06 for IEEE): He is currently a professor of the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University. He received BD and MD at Kyushu Institute of Technology in 1976 and at the University of Tokyo in 1978, respectively. He received Ph.D. at the University of Tokyo in 1981. He joined Mechanical Engineering Laboratory (AIST) as a Researcher in 1981, Kyushu Institute of Technology as an Associate Professor in 1990, Hiroshima University as a Professor in 1993, and Osaka University as a Professor in 2016. His current research interests include innovative dynamic active sensing, such as strobe imager, cell deformability, dynamic sensing of human eye and internal organs by using both high speed vision and high speed actuator. He has received 30 awards, including the Humboldt Research Award (1997), the IEEE ICRA Best Manipulation Paper Award (2000), the IEEE ISATP Outstanding Paper Award (2001), the IEEE RAS King-Sun Fu Memorial Best Trans. Paper Award (2003), the IEEE ICIA Best Conference Paper Award (2005), the IEEE ICMA Best Paper Award (2012 and 2015), the IEEE MHS Best Paper Award (2011 and 2014), and the IEEE CBS Best Conference Paper Award (2017). He also received the Honorary Doctor from Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany (2013).