Welcome to YNL

東京大学 中村・山本研究室へようこそ。以下の3つのテーマを中心に、ロボットの力学と制御の研究を行っています。

We are involved in the following topics on robotics, dynamics and control.

  • Humanoid Robotics
  • Musculoskeletal Modeling
  • Intelligent Modeling

Also see our YouTube channel “robotics_ynl.”

Award from RSJ

Prof. Yamamoto received the best paper award from Journal of Robotics Society of Japan on Sep. 5, 2019.

Ko Yamamoto, “Resolved Viscoelasticity Control Explicitly Considering Structure-Variability for Humanoids (in Japanese),” Journal of the Robotics Society of Japan, Vol. 35, No. 2, pp. 160-169, 2017. [DOI: 10.7210/jrsj.35.160]

HUMANOIDS2018 Best Interactive Paper Award Finalist & Mike Stilman Paper Award

Dr. Tianyi Ko presented at IEEE-RAS HUMANOIDS2018 in Beijing. His paper was selected as one of the best interactive paper award finalists, and we were awarded Mike Stilman Paper Award.

  • Tianyi Ko, Ko Yamamoto, Kazuya Murotani and Yoshihiko Nakamura, “Compliant Biped Locomotion of Hydra, an Electro-Hydrostatically Driven Humanoid,” in Proceedings of IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots, pp.587 – 592, 2018.

IROS2018 Best Paper Award Finalist

Mr. Takuya Ohashi presented his work on VMocap in IROS2018. His paper has been selected as a finalist of the best paper award.

  • Takuya Ohashi, Yosuke Ikegami, Kazuki Yamamoto, Wataru Takano and Yoshihiko Nakamura, “Video Motion Capture from the Part Confidence Maps of Multi-Camera Images by Spatiotemporal Filtering Using the Human Skeletal Model,” in Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2018.

Mr. Tianyi Ko was awarded Jc-IFToMM Young Investigator Fund Best Paper Award

Mr. Tianyi Ko was awarded Young Investigator Fund Best Paper Award in the 24-th Jc-IFToMM Symposium on Theory of Machines and Mechanisms, which was held at University of Tokyo on June 1.

Tianyi Ko , Kazuya Murotani, Ko Yamamoto, Yoshihiko Nakamura, “WHOLE-BODY MOTOR CONTROL PERFORMANCE EVALUATION OF THE HYDROSTATICALLY DRIVEN HUMANOID HYDRA (in Japanese),” in Proceedings of the 24th Jc-IFToMM Symposium, 2018.

http://www.jc-iftomm.org/japanese/index.html