> 2011-12-22 We celebrated the end of the year with a small Nabe party, and a big surprise for me as the students prepared everything to celebrate my birthday! It was really moving! > 2011-12-09 Ritta Baddoura's stay with us is going to its end. During these 5 weeks it's been a lot of intensive work to set up our experiments and to have more than 40 participants joining us in the experiments. A constant team of 3 people to record motion and manipulate NAO. Thank you all for your help, patience and collaboration, in particular Ryo for dealing with NAO subversive behavior! > 2011-12-06 Ritta Baddoura cooked Lebanese for us, and the students cooked Japanese Nabe for her. We had some special guests also: Prof. Nakamura and Dr. Koshiba from the department of Life Science and Chieko from the International house. > 2011-11-30 Visit of Tsukuba AIST and presentations at Tokyo Young Researchers Workshop. > 2011-11-14 Ritta Baddoura from Montpellier University, France is visiting us for 5 weeks. She gave a talk on "Being familiar with robots". A very captivating and interesting talk on the psychological challenges for robotics. > 2011-11-13 During the University festival we participated in the "Kagiten"@u‰È‹Z“Wv event to present our activities. Thanks to all the undergraduate students it was a successful 3 days event. > 2011-10-05 We've had a little party in the lab with Tagawa Lab. to celebrate the mid-term and the successful mid-term presentations held last week. > 2011-09-16 Prof. Sugihara from Osaka University and one of his student visited our lab as well as a few other labs in the department, and he gave a captivating talk on "Dynamics morphing toward robust and autonomous biped control". Thank you to all the people that joined the seminar. > 2011-08-02 We conducted some motion capture experiments at the University of Tokyo with Seiya Sakaguchi, Yuta Kawashima, Mitsuhiro Hayashibe (INRIA, France) and Nakamura lab. for the Sakura-Hayame project. It was a good opportunity again to use our dynamics identification method in real time. > 2011-07-30 We participated in the summer school for high school girls 2011, in Fuchu Campus. We organized a hands-on session with NAO and the Wii balance board to study the center of pressure of human (CoP) of the human and the robot during different motions. Thanks to Matsukata Ryo and Takashi Aoki we ended everything as scheduled. > 2011-07-19 Kouta and Yuta presented their research work at IFToMM Japanese Council last Saturday. A good opportunity to practise and enhance their presentation skills and to listen to other recent research work. Everything went well and they did pretty well during the discussions. Naoki and Yusuke also joined to listen to presentation, take pictures and meet with other researchers. > 2011-06-15 We are in the middle of a full week of motion capture experiments. So far things are going smoothly. The real-time algorithm works well and thanks to the students, Toyota Central Lab, MAC3D, Vicon Asia and Crescent we are under schedule. The lectures goes on too, so it was a good opportunity for 1st year students to drop by during the Kisozemi lecture. Everything's good! > 2011-06-10 We are starting a full week of motion capture experiments. Crescent people came to install the first motion capture. Next Monday MAC3D will come to install a second one. We have a lot of expectations for these measures. everyone is participating. Cross fingers! > 2011-05-10 Within the framework of our collaboration with Toyota Central Lab. Collaboration we conducted our first tests, in our new experiments room, with the Crescent company and a high spec VICON motion capture. > 2011-04-27 Tagawa Lab. and Venture Lab. students prepared a surprise for Prof. Tagawa's birthday: two delicious cakes for tea-time! > 2011-04-12 We held our welcome BBQ party with Tagawa Lab. in Showa Kinen Koen. Blessed by a beautiful chilly weather and fully opened cherry blossoms. > 2011-03-25 Congratulations to our three students that graduated today!!! > 2011-03-22 I have been awarded a grant from the Neurocreative NPO. I attended a very intimate award ceremony due to the circonstances in Northern Japan. It was a great opportunitu to meet with Prof. Amari, and Prof. Suzuki. And with the other awardees. > 2011-02-22 Kengo, Seiya and Hideyuki have successfully finish the presentation of their research work. We are celebrating with Tagawa-lab. > 2011-02-19 NAO, from Aldebaran, has join the lab. The small humanoid robot will be used for education and research as a plateform to implement our results. > 2011-02-16 The undergraduate students are working hard to finish their thesis and prepare for their presentation. At the same time we are receiving some new equipment. Today, the Kinect sensor arrived, and Enomoto-san install it so that we can try it on the computer. We managed to get the 5 of us recognized. It works quite nicely. Drawback: not so much for ladies in skirt... the legs are not recognized. From now, we may develop our own programs and applications using this technology. > 2011-01-06 Venture Lab and Tagawa Lab students prepared a surprise BD tea time, with a delicious lemon custard and meringue tart and a dry fruit cake! Thank you very much! > 2010-12-20 End-of-the-year-party We celebrate the end of the year tonight, with a French dinner that I cooked for Tagawa and Venture lab. > 2010-12-17 Within the framework of the Hayame-junior/SAKURA program, I went to visit LIRMM in Montpellier for 4 days. It's been an opportunity for intensive research discussions, lab visits, seminars and experiments on patients. A brief but pro-active stay. Thank you everyone! > 2010-12-03 Today is last day with Prof. Gautier at the lab. These two months of intensive research discussions and exchanged have been very fruitful. Thanks to JSPS we have been able to concretize several of our research goals. It's been also helpful for the students, when using the robot. I only regret that English is still a problem, and students are really shy. > 2010-11-11 Visit of e-Defense installation In order to work on the modelling and identification of large scale earthquake simulators, Prof. Tagawa invited me and Prof. Gautier to visit INED e-Defense facility near Kobe. This is the world largest shaking table (earthquake simulator). This day they conducted experiment on a wooden reinforced primary school, with two types of input: first a longitudinal excitation, then inputs that were recorded during the Kobe earthquake in 1995. The machine is quite impressive and the experiments are as well. It is going to be a nice challenge to model and identify this structure.
> 2010-10-14 Today we had the visit of Prof. Dana Kulic from Waterloo University, Canada. All the students presented their research work, and Dana gave a talk about the recent research activities of her lab. Dr. Hayashibe and Prof. Gautier were also there. > 2010-10-01 This morning our collaboration within the SAKURA program framework started effectively. Dr. Hayashibe from INRIA Montpellier, France, visited us and give a talk on his research activities. It was also an opportunity to visit Prof. Morishima Laboratory and to know more about his muscle-actuator. Within the framework of the project we are conducting several capture experiments in the Cyber Behavior Studio in the University of Tokyo. > 2010-09-30 Today the undergraduate students presented there work at the midterm session. They did a pretty good job. I was sorry to have to run back and through between two meetings and not to share the party in the evening with them. Upon the initiative of the French Embassy a meeting on Technologies for People with Disabilities was held today at the French Embassy. I gave the introductory talk, and was in charge of the debate animation with Dr. Mitsuhiro Hayashibe and Prof. Philippe Fraisse. It was a very enlightning meeting with different aspects covered: Technology, Medicine, Supporting institutions... And casual enough to exchange a lot. > 2010-08-03 This morning visit at JAXA center in Chofu with Prof. Tagawa and Yusuke Inoue, a student that we co-supervise. The main reason for going was to see their huge flight simulator as we are working on the control of such systems. We had also the opportunity to try it. A very nice experience!
> 2010-07-31 GV was invited to give a talk at the summer school to promote science among high school girls. I also organized experiments. Kengo and Yuta helped me for the installation and during the experiments. Thanks to them everything went well with the right timing and the 18 students could take both experiments. It was a very interesting experience.
> 2010-07-29 This is the end of Celine Hamon stay at the lab. She organized a farewell party, cooked crepes for everyone at GV Lab. and Tagawa Lab.. Respectively, the students prepared a surprise for her: some farewell presents: a yukata for her and a jimbei for Julian. It was really sweet! With Echizen-san we helped her out to wear it right away! ,she will come again during her PhD.
> 2010-07-22 We had 3 special guests visiting the lab: Dr. Claire Dune from JRL (Tsukuba), Prof. Christine Chevallereau and Prof. Philippe Wenger, from IRCCyN (Nantes, France). Claire gave a talk on visual servoing. And they had a tour of GV lab, Mizuuchi lab, Tagawa lab, Nagai and Pongsathorn lab.
> 2010-07-05 Today Tagawa-lab students and Venture-lab students prepared more than everything for a BBQ party in Showa Kinen koen. Everything was great, as in between to big showers the sky cleared just for lunch time. Too bad that Shikano-san couldn't join the party...
> 2010-06-30 New equipment arrived today: a stereo camera for Kouta Enomoto's research project! > 2010-06-30 At the begining of the month we have had a full day experimental capture at RIKEN for a project about Taiko playing. This is to link music (sound) and movements. On this project many people are involved though it is rather a project for fun. Collaboration with Prof. Dana Kulic from Waterloo University in Canada is also considered. This is an other very exciting project! On that day a professional photographer came to cover the experimental session.
> 2010-06-11 This week is good weel: 2 submitted papers to major international conferences were accepted, the lab is expanding with a new room (Blg 9 room 208), and the robot for our collaborative work with Prof. Tagawa and Hitachi was just delivered. Let's wait next week to install it.
> 2010-04-20 Today Tagawa-lab students and Venture-lab students prepared everything for a BBQ party in Musashino koen. They found a nice place under a still blooming cherry tree. Everything was great except the weather that could have been better and warmer.
> 2010-03-26 The graduation ceremony took place yesterday, despite the pouring rain. No group picture under the sakura as could be expected, just in the lab...
> 2010-02-22 Here we are, the end of the term, the students have successfully finished their undergraduate thesis and presentations. To celebrate their good work we held a small party in the Lab. jointly with Tagawa's lab: Nabe and Takoyaki.
< > 2010-02-04 It's a busy time of the year as it is the end of the term and the students are all busy with their manuscripts and presentation for graduation. They still manage to organize a Welcome party for Celine who just joined us last week. > 2010-01-19 I have received the camera I bought with one of the granted budget. This will serve mainly to capture movies of the experiments and to prepare movies for new experiments. But today there was a beautiful view from the corridor... so I couldn't help take one picture... > 2010-01-15 What I wrote 10 days ago was wrong... The JSPS Sakura research project I applied for with Mitsuhiro Hayashibe HAS ACTUALLY BEEN SELECTED. Visibly the French website was wrong as now I get a possitive confirmation from the Univ. International Exchange Promotion Team and the JSPS website... I am just half surprised that the French side didn't give the right information. > 2009-12-13
The "JSPS invited Professor" grant I applied for with Maxime Gautier has been selected. Prof. Gautier will join the lab. for 2 months next summer. > 2010-01-05
The JSPS Sakura research project I applied for with Mitsuhiro Hayashibe has not been selected. Let's give an other try next year! > 2009-12-16
Before the end of the year holidays we held a small party in the lab (Tagawa Lab. and GV Lab.). As promised last time GV cooked French for everyone, with the help of the students. We had special guests also: Prof. David Stoten from Bristol University, one of his PhD students; and Mori-san daughter. Everyone had a good time and enjoyed the food, the bread and the wine. > 2009-12-10
Next year undergraduate students have been allocated. 3 new students will join the lab in April 2010. > 2009-12-05
The research project for the special fund for "women in science" has been granted. > 2009-10-30
A 2d year master from UPMC (Paris, France) will joined the lab for 6 month in February. > 2009-09-30
After the mid-term presentations of the undergraduate students (Tagawa Lab. and GV Lab.), Tagawa Lab. master students organized a small Nabe-party in the lab. Good food and casual atmosphere. > 2009-09-24
D-1 before the dedline for the ?????, students are getting ready. > 2009-09-20
The 1st year master students who will join the lab next April has been decided. > 2009-09-02
The research project for the JSPS????????? has been accepted. The grant money will be allowed for 2 years. > 2009-06-29
Before I go on a business trip and Prof. Tagawa goes on 3 months sabatical in UK, with the students we held a casual BBQ in a park and enjoyed trampolino! > 2009-06-24
Rehabilitation Robotics Conference 2009 in Kyoto.
Meet with little NAO (Aldebaran Robotics) and my interactive presentation booth. > 2009-06-15
The lab is slowly setlling down.
Measuring systems: 2 portable gyro have just arrived.
Students are working hard. And so am I with trying to develop international collaborations. > 2009-05-22
Seminar on multi-body dynamics and identification for Tagawa Lab. and Venture Lab. has started. Every Friday from 13.00 to 14.30. > 2009-04-27
A little bit more equipment arrived... One computer and the Wii and its accessories. > 2009-04-21
As a member of the Commitee for the International Relations, I interviewed with 3 other prof. 28 international students for the attribution of scholarships. > 2009-04-10
Two undergraduate students have joined the lab. Hope we will do good work together. > 2009-04-08
Sakura are in blossoms everywhere on the campus. New and young students are arriving and bringing life to the campus that was rather calm.
Today we had the "orientation" and had a brief meeting to present ourselves to the new students. > 2009-04-03
A new printer, a fridge, a rice-cooker a toaster! The student-lab space is getting ready for the first students to join! Where are they? > 2009-04-02
Writing grants is not easy and it's very much time consuming, but I am done with my first one. Hope it will work! > 2009-03-25
The last big installation has just finished: it was the installation of a big whiteboard covering one of the walls in the students room. > 2009-03-13
The second week is getting to the end.
After some time to adjust I think now I am getting used to things here. The natural kindness of everyone here is making things easier.
I am already quite occupied with budget and proposal writting. > 2009-03-05
Almost a week already that I have started! The lab is little by little turning out nice, despite the strong smell of paint.
I have received furniture for my office and ordered some for the lab. > 2009-02-27 Reform almost done. Almost ready to start next Monday! > 2009-02-13 Reform decided! Ordered furniture and computers. > 2009-02-05 Meeting with the reform company... there's a lot of work to do! > 2009-01-27 First visit of what will become the Lab.
last update 05.10.2011 by g*
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