Academic Staff and Fellows
- OTSUBO Yoshikazu
- Associate Professor Doctor of Engineering
- Department/Mechanical Engineering Graduate school/Mechanical Engineering
We have developed rescue robots to search for victims in underground shopping centers in the event of a disaster. We integrate a number of conventional robots having various features in order to develop a group robot system that can be remotely manipulated.
Mobile robot for search and rescue
| Research Area | Mechatronics, Robotics, Rescue Engineering |
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| Teaching (Undergraduate Course) | Synthetic Seminar 1&2, Exercises and Experiments of Control Engineering, Digital Circuit, Instrumentation Engineering, Mechatronics, Seminar for Bachelor Thesis, Individual Study for Bachelor Thesis, Experimental Works of Mechanical Engineering |
| Teaching (Graduate Course) | Robotics Integration, Advanced Research on Mechanical Engineering, Interdisciplinary Lecture in Mechanics III |
| Research Interests | Development of search and rescue tools/robots Development of swarm robot Development of instrumentation system based on biomimetics Development of mobile robot with special mechanism |
| Selected Publications |
(1) Control Design of McKibben-type pneumatic muscle using V-Tiger and Confidence interval analysis of closed-loop response considering input saturation, JSME Vol.89(924),23-00104-23-00104 (2023) (2) The World Robot Summit disaster robotics category -achievements of the 2018 preliminary competition, Advanced Robotics, Vol.33(17), pp.854-875, Jun 2019 (2) Group Control of Mobile Robots for More Efficient Searches -Verification of Semi-Autonomous Trajectory Tracking Motions in Irregular Ground Environment-, Journal of Robotics and Mechatronics, Vol.30(6),pp.980-990, Dec 2018 (3) Undergraduate-Student Teaching Materials for Mechatronics, Journal of Robotics and Mechatronics, Vol.29(6), pp.1005-1013, Dec 2017 |
| Research and Achievements | |
| Affiliated Academic Societies | The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineering (JSME), The Robotics Society of Japan (RSJ), The Society of Instrument and Control Engineering (SICE), The Institute of Electrical Engineers of Japan(IEEJ), Japanese Society for Engineering Education(JSEE), IEEE |
| Education (Undergraduate Course) |
BE from Kindai University |
| Education (Master's/Doctral Course) |
ME from Kobe University、 Doctorate by way of dissertation from Kobe Univeristy |
| Title of Thesis, Institute, Date | The Study of Micromachining using Micro- stereolithography |
| Awards | ・Best Late Breaking Report Award, IEEE International Symposium on Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics (2017) ・Robotics and Mechatronics Division, Certificate of Merit for Excellent Paper，Control Design of McKibben type pneumatic muscle using V-Tiger and Confidence interval analysis of closed-loop response considering input saturation (2025) |
Mechatronics Laboratory
ohtsubo（at）mech.kindai.ac.jp
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