Bio-robotic Control
Development of power assist devices using pneumatic actuators
Walking assist devices using pneumatic artificial rubber muscles
Tetta Kadokura, Tetsuro Miyazaki, Toshihiro
Kawase, Maina Sogabe, Kenji Kawashima, Posture estimation by
clustering pressure information and control implementation
for pneumatically driven gait-assistive robot, IEEE
Access, Vol.12, pp.35874-35887, 2023
Tetsuro Miyazaki, Toshihiro Kawase, Takahiro Kanno, Maina
Sogabe, Yoshikazu Nakajima, Kenji Kawashima, Running Motion
Assistance Using a Soft Gait-assistive Suit and Its
Experimental Validation, IEEE
Access, Vol.9, pp.94700-94713, 2021
Toshihiro Tagami, Tetsuro Miyazaki, Toshihiro Kawase, Takahiro Kanno, Kenji Kawashima, Pressure Control of a Pneumatic Artificial Muscle including Pneumatic Circuit Model,IEEE Access,Vol.8,pp.60526-60538, 2020
Control of surgical robot using deep learning
We propose control methods of surgical robots to improve the task efficiency.
Mikada Takuto, Takahiro Kanno, Toshihiro Kawase, Tetsuro Miyazaki, Kenji Kawashima, 3D Posture Estimation of Robot Forceps using Endoscope with Convolutional Neural Network, The International Journal of Medical Robotics and Computer Assisted Surgery, 16:e2062,2019
Kengo Watanabe, Takahiro Kanno, Kazuhisa Ito, Kenji Kawashima, Single Master Dual Slave Surgical Robot with Automated Relay of Suture Needle, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, Vol.65, Issue 8, pp.6343-6351, 2018
Physical reservoir computing with a pneumatic network
Hiroaki Shinkawa, Toshihiro Kawase, Tetsuro Miyazaki, Takahiro Kanno, Maina Sogabe, Kenji Kawashima, Limit Cycle Generation with Pneumatically Driven Physical Reservoir Computing, IEEE ICRA, pp.537-543, 2023
Hiroyuki Hayashi, Toshihiro Kawase, Tetsuro Miyazaki, Maina Sogabe, Yoshikazu Nakajima, Kenji Kawashima, Online Assistance Control of a Pneumatic Gait Assistive Suit Using Physical Reservoir Computing Exploiting Air Dynamics, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA),pp. 3245–3251, 2022
Toshihiro Kawase, Tetsuro Miyazaki, Takahiro Kanno, Kotaro Tadano, Yoshikazu Nakajima, Kenji Kawashima, Pneumatic Reservoir Computing for Sensing Soft Body: Computational Ability of Air in Tube and Its Application to Posture Estimation of Soft Exoskeleton, Sensors and Materials, Vol.33, No.8, pp.2803–2824, 2021
Bio-inspired soft actuators
Soft actuator by liquid-to-gas phase change mechanism with
environmental thermal source
Control of bending type pneumatic artificial rubber muscle
Maina Sogabe, Florian Christoffer Uetrecht, Takahiro Kanno, Tetsuro Miyazaki, Kenji Kawashima, A Quick Response Soft Actuator by Miniaturized Liquid-to-Gas Phase Change Mechanism with environmental thermal source, ] Sensors and Actuators:A.Physical,Volume 361, 114587, 2023
Biomedical Imaging
Yasuhide Hirohata, Maina Sogabe, Tetsuro Miyazaki, Toshihiro
Kawase, and Kenji Kawashima, Confidence-aware self-supervised
learning for dense monocular depth estimation in dynamic
laparoscopic scene,
Scientific Reports,Vol.13,15380,2023
Maina Sogabe, Kaoru Ishikawa, Toshihiro Takamatsu, Koh
Takeuchi, Takahiro Kanno, Koji Fujimoto, Tetsuro Miyazaki,
Toshihiro Kawase, Toshihiko Sato, Kenji Kawashima, Bleeding
source estimation; endoscopic surgery; Pix2Pix; training data
from mimicking organs, Array,
Vol.19,100308,2023
Maina Sogabe, Norihiko Ito, Tetsuro Miyazaki, Toshihiro
Kawase, Takahiro Kanno and Kenji Kawashima, Detection of
Instruments Inserted into Eye in Cataract Surgery Using
Single-shot Multibox Detector, Sensors and
Materials, Vol.34, No.1, pp.47-54, 2022