Hajime_Asama

Prof. 淺間 一 (Hajime ASAMA)

Dept. of Precision Engineering,
The University of Tokyo

 

 

Robot Technology for Disaster Prevention & Response and its Societal Dissemination

 

Abstract


Recently, the frequency and the severity of the disaster are increasing due to global warming and aging of the social infrastructures. In the disaster sites, there are difficulty and danger in tasks and environment for human workers, and it is necessary to utilize the robot technology for disaster prevention and response.


In this talk, the robot technologies which have been developed and utilized for the disaster response including decommissioning of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station are introduced, and new challenges for disaster response robot technology and issues on its societal dissemination, which are demanded for disaster prevention and disaster response in the future, are discussed.

 

Biography:

Hajime Asama received his B. S., M. S., and Dr. Eng in Engineering from the University of Tokyo, in 1982, 1984 and 1989, respectively. He was Research Associate, Research Scientist, and Senior Research Scientist in RIKEN (The Institute of Physical and Chemical Research, Japan) from 1986 to 2002. He became a professor of RACE (Research into Artifacts, Center for Engineering), the University of Tokyo in 2002, and a professor of School of Engineering, the University of Tokyo in 2009. He received JSME (Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers) Robotics and Mechatronics Division Academic Achievement Award in 2001, RSJ (Robotics Society of Japan) Best paper Award, JSME Robotics and Mechatronics Award in 2009, etc.

He is a vice-president of Robotics Society of Japan since 2011. He was an AdCom member of IEEE Robotics and Automation Society from 2007 to 2009, an editor of Journal of International Journal of Intelligent Service Robotics, Journal of Field Robotics, Journal of Robotics and Autonomous Systems. He played the director of the Mobiligence (Emergence of adaptive motor function through the body, brain and environment) program in the MEXT Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Priority Areas from 2005 to 2009. He is a Fellow of JSME since 2004 and RSJ since 2008.

His main research interests are distributed autonomous robotic systems, ambient intelligence, service engineering, and Mobiligence.