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23Kaoru WakatsukiAssociate ProfessorScientific Research on Fire and its Application to Firefighter SafetyDepartment of Machinery 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 MechanicsSensor Development onHand ManikinFitting Gloves on the ManikinWhole Glove Test against Heat ExposureMasataku SutohAssociate ProfessorKey to design/control space exploration robot ~Terramechanics~Department of Machinery and RoboticsA time delay cannot be avoided in communication between the Moon/Mars and Earth. Thus, space exploration robots should think by themselves and move autonomously. Furthermore, the lunar/planetary surface is covered with loose regolith. The robots can easily tip over on the surface, because their landing legs or wheels sink into the ground. To avoid such problem, it is essential to thoroughly understand the interaction between the robot and the ground. In our research group, we aim to develop robots with a high autonomy based on terramechanics, which is a branch of mechanics that examines the interaction between the machine and the ground. To this end, we conduct various kinds of traveling tests using robots and perform numerical simulations.Mobile robots (rovers) for lunar/planetary exploration.He received his Ph.D. in engineering at Tohoku University in 2013. He worked as an aerospace project research associate at Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) from 2013 to 2017. In 2017, he started his career at Shinshu University. Research interests: eld robot and mechatronics.Robots with a high autonomy will bring us to places where no one has ever been or seen before (e.g., inside a crater on the Moon and a cli on Mars) with plentiful of scientic returns. Moreover, the autonomous robots are also required in extreme environments on Earth. In hazardous disaster sites or volcano regions, the robots can explore the area instead of us. Our research on autonomous robots contributes not only to space development but also to the safety and security of society.Outlook for researchA comprehensive knowledge of engineering is necessary to develop robots that are capable of exploring extreme environments. Engineering approaches obtained from our research activity will be applicable to the development of machines/robots in general. Thus, graduates are expected to play an active role in a wide range of elds both domestically and overseas.Outlook for students after graduationNumerical simulation that determines an optimal traveling path based on topographical information and rover traveling performance.Functional Machinery and Mechanics

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