Systems Dynamics Laboratory, Utsunomiya University
The Systems Dynamics Laboratory is part of the Utsunomiya University’s Graduate School of Engineering under the Mechanical Systems Engineering department. Here, the basic research includes a machine model that represents the competition and cooperation between robots, the effect linking the equilibrium maintenance exercise, competition and coordination strategy that is growing, the sensory evaluation and cooperation tasks, and the stochastic mechanics of neural control system.
This Japanese university-based research laboratory has also applied some of its research in various industrial companies, which includes Japanese Automobile giant Toyota Motor Corporation, where their nonlinear dynamics of the vehicle transmission has been widely accepted by TMC.
Another is their nonlinear dynamics of the vehicle-mounted air conditioning system, which was adopted by another company, Calsonic Kansei. Furthermore, the System Dynamics Laboratory has been actively involved in the research of autonomous systems like robots and people holding hands together. Knowing what the movement will be and considering when they are going to fall are part of their research.
Recently, two of its researchers, Shigeki Matsumoto and Katsutoshi Yoshida, attended the 2013 ASME Dynamic Systems and Control Conference at Stanford University. They presented their work there, entitled: “An Experimental Study on Balancing Tasks of Human Subjects in Cooperation with Invisible Artificial Partners.”
