Faculty of Textile Science and Technology Research Activity2015｜Shinshu Universi

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Satoshi SuzukiTenure-track Assistant ProfessorMoving, thinking, and working autonomously: Implementing an autonomous robotDivision of Mechanical Engineering and RoboticsI am engaged in research from the standpoint of control engineering and robotics with the goal of implementing an autonomous robot that can think, move, and work on its own. My lab has developed numerous small aerial and terrestrial robots as well as motion control systems, external environment sensing systems, and robot cooperative behavior control systems.This autonomous, small-scale unmanned helicopter, one of our aerial robots, can y without human operation using autonomous control technology.After completing the second-semester doctoral course at Chiba University, Satoshi Suzuki worked as a researcher at the university before taking his current position in 2009. He is currently working on autonomous robots such as an autonomous, unmanned helicopter. His principal areas of research include control engineering, robotics, and control applications.My goal is to create robots that can replace human work in dangerous areas and extreme environments such as disaster response and rescue activities and to develop robot systems that can work under all terrain and environmental conditions through the collaboration of multiple types of robots.Outlook for researchGraduates are able to go to work immediately in many elds since they not only study machine engineering, but also master many other skills, including electricity and electronic circuits, control engineering, and programming.Outlook for students after graduationMy rst goal is to achieve collaboration between aerial and terrestrial robots.The devices used to control the robots are developed entirely from scratch.Functional Machinery and MechanicsKaoru WakatsukiAssociate ProfessorScientific Research on Fire and its Application to Firefighter SafetyDivision of Mechanical Engineering and RoboticsOur lab conducts scientific research on (1) understanding fire dynamics and firefighters’ working environment, (2) heat transfer process in firefighters’ personal protection equipment (PPE), (3) development and revision on standard fire tests and thermal performance requirement of material and PPE and (4) development of new firefighter PPE. Finally, research on fire protection for materials and people is one of our objectives, but our essential goal is to educate firefighters (emergency responders) about better understanding of fundamental of fire risk and physics within PPE for their safe operation.Evaluation of reghter clothing by ash re manikin.Fundamental research on test method against heat and ame will be contributed to international standard (ISO) development.After completion of Ph.D. at Univ. of Maryland in the U.S., he had worked for Nat’l Res. Inst. of Fire and Disaster as a research scientist and a federal re investigator before joining Shinshu Univ. in 2015. His expertise is thermal and re protection engineering and its application of personal protection.Principle of natural phenomena shall be understood by using various sciences and engineering. Throughout the research in our lab, understanding of scale gap between ideal and fact will be recognized. This will be good experience and basic knowledge to contribute to research and development for new technology.Outlook for researchDue to energy conservation and fuel eciency, many kinds of polymer materials and its application have been developed. Safety shall be the rst priority even if main objective is new material development. Our graduates will always have safety consciousness in any new technology development.Outlook for students after graduationDevelopment of testing method against heat and ame for reghting gloves. Design of fabric layering in reghting gloves will be developed by fabric and by whole glove test.Functional Machinery and Mechanics22Sensor Development onHand ManikinFitting Gloves on the ManikinWhole Glove Test against Heat Exposure

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