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RESEARCH FIELD - LIFE CYCLE ENGINEERING - SERVICE ENGINEERING - DIGITAL VALUE ENGINEERING
CO-CREATION ENGINEERING - VALUE CREATION INITIATIVE - VISITING RESEARCH DIVISION
RESEARCH COLLABORATION
SERVICE ENGINEERING

Jun Ota, Professor
Mihoko Otake, Associate Professor

[Abstract]

In order to realize a sustainable society, paradigm shift is demanded from product-centered industrial structure in a mass-production-mass-consumption manner to service- or knowledge-centered one taking account of the whole life cycle of artifacts. Towards dematerialization by generating added value in services and knowledge, this research division discusses establishment of methodologies to innovate services, development of various service systems, and systematization of the service engineering. Especially, our division focuses on development of methods for measuring, modeling and discrimination of human behaviors, assistance of nursing service, and design of large-scale transport service systems.

Service Engineering Division provides portal site "Service Creation Workshop" in order to share data, information and knowledge which are useful for service creation.


Recent Research Projects

1) Service Optimization in Manufacturing, Logistics, and Service Industries (J.Ota)

We study about design methodologies in manufacturing, logistics, and service industries. We aim to construct systems that accomplish tasks more efficiently by combining (a) intelligent systems with automated guided vehicles and sensing devices and (b) automatic, high-speed and high-quality task sequence generation.
The following topics are discussed:

  • Nurse service monitoring and support
  • Design of large-scale logistic systems in warehouses
  • Design of multiple agents in a seaport container terminal

    • 2) Cooperative Task Realization by Multiple Autonomous Robots (J.Ota)

    We deal with a multi-task realization problem by multiple robots. Here, it is important for the robots to autonomously find the tasks that precede other tasks, and to determine the sequence of accomplishing those tasks. In this study, we propose control methodology of multiple robots for rearrangement task of multiple objects and show the effectiveness of the proposed method through simulations and experiments.

    3)Development of Simulation System of Neural Network and Its Applications (M.Otake)

    The neural network system of a human is a complex system which consists of 100 billions of cells. We are building a method for simulating human's neural network based on findings in cognitive psychology, anatomy, physiology, and psychiatry. We aim to design novel services by integrating these findings into the neural network simulation system.

    (Last updated on 30-April-2010)

    figure 1
    Nurse Service Monitoring and Support

    figure 2
    Design of Multiple Agents in a Seaport Container Terminal

    figure 3
    Cooperative Control of Multiple Mobile Robots

    figure 4
    Simulation of the Neural Systems in Human Brain