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MA Shugen

Department / Course College of Science and Engineering Department of Robotics

Title / Position Professor

Other Affiliations
1.	Graduate School of Science and Engineering

Academic background
1.	1986/04/01～1991/03/23	Doctorial Course │ Department of Mechanical Sciences │ Graduate School, Division of Science and Engineering │ Tokyo Institute of Technology │ Completed Control and system engineering Ph.D.
2.	1980/09～1984/07	Mechanical Engineering │ Faculty of Engineering │ Hebei University of Technology │ Graduated

Business career
1.	2008/04/01	Professor │ Department of Robotics │ Ritsumeikan University
2.	2005/10/01 ～ 2008/03/31	Professor │ the Organization for Promotion of the COE Program │ Ritsumeikan University
3.	2012/04/01 ～ 2013/03/31	Head │ Division of Mechanical Engineering │ Ritsumeikan University
4.	2006/04/01 ～ 2011/03/31	DirectorInternational Center │ Biwako-Kusatsu Campus (BKC) │ Ritsumeikan University
5.	2014/08/14 ～ 2014/09/25	Visiting Professor │ │ Johns Hopkins University, USA
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Committee and society
1.	2022 ～ 2022	IEEE RAS and RSJ General Chair of IROS 2022
2.	2021 ～ 2021	Hong Kong Society of Mechanical Engineers(HKSME) RobCE 2021 (2021 Int. Conf. on Robotics and Control Engineering) Advisory Committee Member
3.	2021 ～ 2021	IEEE and CUG (Wuhan) ICRAS 2021 (5th International Conference on Robotics and Au
4.	2020 ～ 2020	IEEE RAS IEEE RCAR 2020 (IEEE Int. Conf. on Real-time Computing and Robotics) General Co-Chair
5.	2019 ～ 2019	IEEE SMC & RAS Organizing Chair of IEEE ICARM 2019
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Research activities
1.	1989 ～	The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Fellow
2.	1993 ～	Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers (JSME), Fellow
3.	1988 ～	The Robotics Society of Japan (RSJ), Member
4.	1988 ～	Society of Instrument and Control Engineer of Japan (SICE), Member

Subject of research
1.	Development of an ePaddle-based Amphibious Robot
2.	Development of a Environment-adapable Snake-like Robot
3.	Development of a In-Pipe Robot
4.	Development of a wall-climbing robot
5.	Development of an omnidirectional mobile robot
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Research summary
Biomimetic Intelligent Mechantronics Grasping the dynamic phenomena of the nature world with engineering knowledge and analytical method and applying the unique phenomena observed from nature world to engineering field. Besides, mechanism and control of new types of robots, and rescue robotics. =Research theme(1)= A robot, which is composed of adaptive mobile mechanism, is developed for the purpose of performing the internal inspection tasks of pipelines. Adaptability and efficiency are the basic considerations for this robot. Based on these concepts, a prototype is designed and fabricated. The proposed adaptive mobile mechanism equipped with one actuator can perform two working modes, a normal working mode and an assistant enhanced mode. Robot under the normal working mode is used for moving in pipe or monitoring the inner surface of the pipe. On the other hand, robot under the assistant enhanced mode will produce a larger torque to help itself surmount an obstacle in the pipe without any other driving actuator. =Research theme(2)= Design and control of new mechanical redundant robot systems =Research theme(3)= Omni-directional Static Walking of Quadraped Robots =Research theme(4)= Design and Control of Tendon-driven Mechanism =Research theme(5)= Developing high mobility robots for rescue tasks =Research theme(6)= 1) Mechanical design and development of snake-like robots 2) Analysis and control of snake-like robots 3) Biologically-inspired distributed control of snake-like robots

Research summary(Photo/Image)
1. Research Introduction (2018)	2. Robots developed in the lab

Present specialized field
Intelligent robotics, Dynamics/Control, Intelligent Mechanics and Machine System (Keyword：Biomimetic Intelligent Mechatronics, Environment-adapted Mechanism, Field Robotics, Rescue Robotics, Environmental adaptation, Biologically-Inspired Robot, Biomimetics, Quadruped robots, Omni-directional static walking, Coupled tendon-drive, Light weight, High speed, Redundancy, Flexibility)

Books
1.	2019/08	Robotic Search and Rescue through In-Pipe Movement │ (Co-authored)
2.	2011/12	CPG-Based Control of Serpentine Locomotion of a Snake-Like Robot │ ,pp.13-32 (Co-authored)
3.	2009/05	Reconfigurable Modular Universal Unit (MUU) for Mobile Robots │ ,pp.453-461 (Co-authored)
4.	2007/09	Study on Locomotion of a Crawling Robot for Adaptation to the Environment │ ,pp.301-316 (Co-authored)
5.	2007	Neural network based kinematic control of the hyper-redundant snake-like manipulator │ ,pp.771-779 (Co-authored)
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Papers
1.	2023	Q-Whex: A Simple and Highly Mobile Quasi-wheeled Hexapod Robot │ Journal of Field Robotics │ (Co-authored)
2.	2023/07	Automatic T-branch Travel of an Articulated Wheeled Inpipe Inspection Robot Using Joint Angle Response to Environmental Changes │ IEEE Transaction on Industrial Electronics │ 70 (7),pp.7041-7050 (Co-authored)
3.	2023/02	Koopman Operator-based Robust Data-Driven Control for Wheeled Mobile Robots │ IEEE/ASME Transaction on Mechatronics │ 28 (1),pp.461-472 (Co-authored)
4.	2023/01	Robotics in Search and Rescue (SAR) Operations: An Ethical and Design Perspective Framework for response phase │ Applied Sciences │ 13 (3),pp.1800-1-1800-24 (Co-authored)
5.	2022/09	Conditional Disturbance Negation based Control for an Omnidirectional Mobile Robot: an Energy Perspective │ IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters │ 7 (4),pp.11641-11648 (Co-authored)
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Academic conference presentation
1.	2022/12	Trajectory Optimization Algorithm of Trajectory Rehabilitation Training Mode for Rehabilitation Robot (2022 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO 2022))
2.	2022/10	Embodying Rather Than Encoding: Undulation with Binary Input (2022 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS2022))
3.	2022/10	A Distributed Coach-Based Reinforcement Learning Controller for Snake Robot Locomotion (2022 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS2022))
4.	2022/10	Design of a modular continuum robot with alterable compliance using tubular-actuation (2022 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS2022))
5.	2022/10	A Standards-Based Pipeline Route Drawing System Using a Towed Sensing Unit (2022 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS2022))
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Other research achievements
1.	2019/09/12	China’s imports of industrial robots from Japan continue to slide amid US-China trade war (South China Morning Post)
2.	2012/06/26	Assisting Rescue Forces with Snake-like Robots (USJI Universities Research Report Vol.10)
3.	2011/10/07	Robots need the loving attention of human beings — Research and investment are key factor in automation production, but that is not enough (China Daily (Opinion/Thought Leaders))
4.	2010/09	Function Follows Form — Researcher Shugen Ma looks to nature for robotic inspiration (Magazine "Unmanned Systems", published by AUVSI for the Unmanned Systems Community)

Works
1.	2023/04/22	From Study of Biologically-Inspired Robots to Design of Environment-Adaptive Robots (Nagaoka, Niigata)
2.	2021/10/11	From Study of Biologically-Inspired Robots to Design of Environment-Adaptive Robots (Grimstad)
3.	2021/06/12	In-pipe Robots for Inspection of Pipelines (Wuhan)
4.	2021/01/08	Reflections on Development and Application of Robot Technologies (Shanghai)
5.	2020/12/15	In-pipe Robots and their Applications (Shenyang)
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Winning science prize
1.	2021/12	ROBIO 2021 Finalist for Best Conference Paper, 2021 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (A bio-inspired continuum robot for out-pipe climbing and confined space navigating)
2.	2018/12	ROBIO 2018 Finalist for Best Conference Paper, 2018 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (Modeling and Experimental Tests for the Voltage-Induced Response of a Circular Dielectric Elastomer Actuator)
3.	2018/08	2018 IEEE International Conference on Information and Automation (ICIA2018) Best Paper Award Finalist, 2018 IEEE International Conference on Information and Automation (Automated Rust Detection via Digital Image Recognition during Griding Work Process)
4.	2018/08	2018 IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics and Automation Toshio Fukuda Best Paper Award in Mechatronics (ICMA 2018) (Multi-link Articulated Wheeled In-pipe Robot with Underactuated Twisting Joints)
5.	2018/01	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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Achievements of joint.Funded research
1.	2018/03 ～ 2018/05	Study on a Wheel-type In-Pipe Robot (Development of a Demo Machine) │ Consigned Research by Company
2.	2018/02 ～ 2019/03	Development of a Wheel-type In-Pipe Robot │ Consigned Research by Company
3.	2017/06 ～ 2018/03	Investigation of In-Pipe Inspection Robots
4.	2016/04 ～ 2017/03	Investigation of In-Pipe Inspection Robots
5.	2009 ～ 2011	CPG-based Neural Controller for Locomotion of a Snake-like Robot
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Acquisition patent
1.		一種の管内適応移動機構（101435521B）
2.		一種の螺旋型管内移動機構（101749520B）
3.		環境適応能力を持つ輪ー履複合変形移動ロボット（102310403B）

Activity in society
1.	2010/01 ～ 2010/12	Evaluator and Rapporteur, the accessment of Experiment proposals submitted in response to Call 1 & 3 of the FP7 Project ECHORD of European Research Council
2.	2006	Assessor, National Natural Science Foundation of China
3.	2003	Assessor, Research Grant Proposals for the Research Grants Council of Hong Kong

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Biomimetic Intelligent Mechatronics Laboratory
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