Academic Staff and Fellows
- OHTSUBO 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 |
(1The World Robot Summit disaster robotics category -achivements of the 2018 preliminary competition, Adcanced 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 | 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 |
| Awards | ・Best Late Breaking Report Award, IEEE International Symposium on Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics (2017) |
Mechatronics Laboratory
ohtsubo（at）mech.kindai.ac.jp
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