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Satoshi KAGAMI

Affiliation

Deputy Director
Digital Human Research Center
National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)

TEL: 03-3599-8201(Lab), 03-3599-8315(direct)
FAX: 03-5530-2066
E-Mail: s.kagami@aist.go.jp

Biography

April 1994 Research Fellow of Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, The University of Tokyo, Dept. of Mechano-Informatics.
March 1997    Received Ph.D from Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo.
April 1997 Research Associate, The University of Tokyo, Dept. of Machano-Informatics. by Research for the Future Project of Japan Society for the Promotion of Science(JSPS) on "Micro and Soft Mechanics Integration for Biomimetic Machines".
April 2001 Senior Research Scientist, Digital Human Laboratory, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST).
April 2003 Humanoid Interaction Team Leader, Digital Human Research Center, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST).
October 2003    Researcher, "Sakigake" Program, Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST)

Honor

June 1994    Robomec Prize, (Robotics-Mechatronics Division Annual Prize), The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers (JSME).
September 1997    Young Investigator Excellence Award, Robotics Society of Japan.
September 1998 Best Paper Award, Robotics Society of Japan.
March 1999 Best paper award, RSJ/JSME Robomec/SICE joint Fourth Robotics Symposia.
September 2000 Third place, Best paper, IEEE/RSJ Int'l Conf. on Humanoid Robotics.
May 2001 Finalist of Best paper award, IEEE Int'l Conf. on Robotics and Automation.
June 2002 Robomec Prize, (Robotics-Mechatronics Division Annual Prize), The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers (JSME).
June 2003 Best Presentation Award, (Robotics-Mechatronics Division Annual Prize), The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers (JSME).
October 2003 Finalist of Best paper award, IEEE/RSJ Int'l Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems 2002 (IROS2002).
April 2006    Minister's Prize for Young Researcher in Science and Technology Field, Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan, for Outstanding contribution of Intelligent Humanoid Robot Behavior,
December 2006    Best Paper Presentation Award, International Conference on Autonomous Robots and Agents (ICARA) 2006.

Research Topics

  • Computational Geometry
  • Practical Comparison of 2D Polint Location Algorithms

  • Design and Implementation of Robot System Software
  • Intelligent Robot Software by using Remote Brained Approach
  • Hierchical Robot System by using Realtime OS

  • 3D Robot Vision, Microphone Array, Tactile Sensor
  • Realtime Depthmap&Optical Flow Generation
  • 3D Range Flow Generation
  • Plane Segment Finder
  • 3D Environmental Mapping and Localization
  • Sound Spot Focusing by using Microphone/Speaker Array(in Japanese)
  • Distributed Tactile Sensor by using Force Sensing Registance Polymer

  • Planning and Control
  • Bipedal Locomotion Trajectory Generation by using ZMP criteria
  • Fullbody motion planning with Dynamic, Geometric, Kinematic constraints
  • Footstep Planning
  • 2.5D Probablistic Map building and localization


  • Sensing-Action Coupling Robots
  • Remote-Brained Robots
  • Quadrupped JROB-1
  • Upperbody Humanoid H3
  • Upperbody Humanoid H4 with Tactile Sensor Skin
  • Fullbody Humanoid H6, H7

  • Motion-Mechanical Digital Human Modeling
  • Human and Robot Motion Measurement Environment (in Japanese)
  • Bipedal Walking Modeling