Atsushi Watanabe - Autonomous Mobile Robot Control and Navigation

Atsushi WATANABE (Ph.D. in Engineering)

Current Position

• Assistant Professor at Field Robotics Laboratory, New Industry Creation Hatchery Center, Tohoku University
• Cooperative Researcher at Intelligent Robotics and Communication Laboratories, Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International
• Professional Qualifications:
  • Member, The Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) [Robotics and Automation Society and Industrial Electronics Society]
  • Member, The Robotics Society of Japan (RSJ)
  • Member, The Society of Instrument and Control Engineers (SICE)

Contacts

E-mail

atsushi dot w at ieee dot org

Research Topics

• Human-Centered and Comfortable Robotic Wheelchair Navigation [25]
• Robot for Infrastructure Management [27]
• Computation Supported Control/Instrumentation System Design for Mobile Robot Platforms
  • Feed-forward Current Control of Efficient Non-linear Drive of PMSMs (Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motors) [4,5,13][1,6,14]
  • Numerically-Optimized Gain Schaduling of Mobile Robot Trajectory Control [11][7]
  • Accurate signal processing of LiDAR by using a large amount of real data [18]
• Outdoor Autonomous Mobile Robot Navigation w/o Using On-site Sensor Data as a Map (Real-world experiments at Tsukuba Challenge 2009-2011) [Refreed 12,16][2,8,15]
• Development of Contact Detection Bumper Sensor for Autonomous Mobile Robots [9]

Projects

2012-2014

Kanto Bureau of Economy, Trade and Industry: Supporting Industry, "Development of a three-dimensional scanning laser sensor for real-time localization of outdoor mobile robot"

2012-2013: Research Assistant, 2014: Advisor

2010-

T-frog Project: Development and Distribution of Open-source Mobile Robot Controller and Hardware

http://t-frog.com/

2009-

Development of Open-source Mobile Robot Control Platform "YP-Spur"

http://openspur.org/

Lectures

• Lecturer at 84th RSJ (The Robotics Society of Japan) Robotics Engeneering Seminar
  "Motor and Mobile Robot Motion Control" (June 21-22, 2014)
• Lecturer at Lifetime Study Center of Ibaraki Prefecture
  (2011)
• Teaching Assistant: Software Science Laboratory III (College of Information Science, Univ. of Tsukuba)
  Lecture and instruction of experiments (2009-2012), planning whole lessons (2011-2012)
• Teaching Assistant: Dynamics (College of Information Science, Univ. of Tsukuba)
  Instruction of exercises (2009-2012)

Society Activities

• The Robotics Society of Japan, Activities Planning Committee (2015-2016)

Opensource Softwares