Toshihiro Matsui

Affiliation

Digital Human Research Center,
National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology.
TEL 03-3599-8202 (Lab.)  -8354 (personal)
FAX 03-5530-2066
E-Mail t.matsui@aist.go.jp

Academic Qualification

March, 1980	Bachelor of Engineering, Tokyo University; Major: Instruments and Applied Mathematics
March, 1982	Master of Engineering, Graduate School of Tokyo University; Major: Computer Science and Robotics
January, 1991	Ph. D, Graduate School of  Tokyo University;  Thesis: Integrated Robot Control System Based on Object-Oriented Models

Research Careers

April, 1982	Researcher, Automatic Control Division, Electrotechnical Laboratory Development of the Multimedia Display for advanced robot teleoperation
October 1989	Senior Researcher, Intelligent Systems Division, Electrotechnical Laboratory Object Oriented Robot Programming Language, EusLisp Applications of  Robots to Hostile Environment
August 1991-92	Visiting Scholar, Robotics Laboratory, Stanford University 3D robot modelling for assembly planning of mechanical parts
August 1994	Visiting Scholar, Artificial Intelligent Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Acoustic behaviors of  mobile robots
November 1995	Visiting Scholar, Robotics Laboratory, Stanford University Mobile robot programming
1997	Group Leader, RWI-Center, Real-World Computing Partnership (RWCP) Autonomous learning system for office information service robots Map learning of  mobile robot by spoken language interface
August 1999	Visiting Professor, Research Center of Information Systems and Engineering (RSISE), Australian National University (ANU) Localization and mapping
2001	Visiting Professor, Robotics Division, National Institute of Informatics
2003	Principal Research Scientist

Management Career

1993-94	Chief, Research Planning Office, Electrotechnical Laboratory
1997-2000	Team Leader, Jijo-2 Robot team, Real-World Intelligence Center, Electrotechnical Laboratory
1999-2001	Investigator, New AIST Start-up Office, Agency of Industrial Science and Technology
2001-2002	Senior Planning Officer, Planning Headquarters, AIST
2003	Acting Director, Digital Human Research Center

Award

1986  T. Matsui	IPSJ Research Promotion Award for Young Researchers	Graphics functions of Multi-Media Display
1986  T. Matsui	RSJ Research Promotion Award for Young Researchers	Real Image functions of Multi-Media Display
1989  T. Matsui and M. Tsukamoto	5th ISRR Robotics Research Award	Integrated robot teleoperation using Multi-Media Display
1989  T. Matsui and M. Tsukamoto	RSJ Best Paper Award	Integrated robot teleoperation using Multi-Media Display
1990  T. Matsui and T. Ogasawara,	ETL Research Achievment Award	Lisp for Robotics
1992  H. Onda, T. Matsui, et al.,	SICE (Society of Instrumentation and Control Enginerring) Best Paper Award	Collision-free geometric path planning of 6-DOF manipulator by analysing configuration space
1992  T. Matsui	Moto-oka Memorial Award	Development of Multi-Media Display and object-oriented robot programming system, EusLisp
1994  T. Matsui, et al.	ETL Contribution Award	Network systems for ETL information research
1998  T. Matsui	Ministry of International Trade and Industries, Best Researcher Award	Object-oriented 3D geometric programming system, EusLisp
1999  Y. Motomura, T. Matsui, et al.,	Japanese Society of Artificial Intelligence, Best Research Award
2002  N. Yamasaki and T. Matsui	Robotics Society of Japan

Research Topics

• Multi-Media Display for Advanced Robot Teleoperation (1982-1989)
  Hardware implementation of overlapping multi-windows
  Superimposition of computer graphics, text, and camera images
  High-speed 3D computer graphics
  Binocular stereovision of CG and camera images in multiple windows
  Application of the MMD to Robot Teleoperation
• Object-Oriented Lisp Programming System, EusLisp
  Object-oriented implementation of a dialect of Common Lisp
  Dynamic loading of shared object code and foreign language interface
  Efficient memory management for variable size objects using Fibonacci buddy system
  Extensible data types and built-in functions by class inheritance
• 3D Geometric Modeler on EusLisp (1989-1993)
  Extensible and hierarchical coordinate systems
  Primitive bodies and their composition (CSG: constructive solid geometry)
  Boundary representations of various robot models
  Hidden line elimination and 3D rendering interface to MESA and OpenGL
• Multithread Concurrency of EusLisp
  Multithread extension
  Efficient memory management for multiple contexts
  Synchronization primitives for multithread programming
  Real-time garbage collection
• Mobile Robot, Jijo-2, for Office Information Services
  Spoken language interface of office mobile robot
  Context sensitive dialogue manager
  Microphone array for capturing human voice in noisy environment
  Map learning and localization by dialogue and various sensors
  Multi-agent architecture for multiple behaviour control

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