Staff

	Akio ISHIGURO, Professor		Dai OWAKI, Assistant Professor

Fig.1: Amoeboid Robot Inspired by True Slime Mold

Fig.2: Serpentine Robot Driven by Decentralized Control Mechanism

Our research interests are mainly in understanding the principles that allow us to construct life-like in telligent systems.
To this end, we are currently investigating the following research topics:

1. Fully decentralized control of a modular robot (reconfigurable robot) that exhibits amoebic locomotion
2. A modular robot that spontaneously self-assembles and self-repairs
3. Control of a running bipedal robot by exploiting the intrinsic body dynamics
4. Adaptive control of a bipedal robot using muscle-like actuators
5. Decentralized control of a snake-like robot using real-time tunable springs

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