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EPSRC Reference:	EP/E025250/1
Title:	NETWORK: UK-Japan Network on Human Adaptive Mechatronics
Principal Investigator:	Yu, Professor H
Other Investigators:	Owens, Professor DH
Researcher Co-Investigators:
Project Partners:	Hiroshima Institute of Technology Nagoya University Okayama University Ritsumeikan University Tokyo Denki University Tokyo Institute of Technology University of Tsukuba
Department:	Faculty of Computing Eng and Sciences
Organisation:	Staffordshire University
Scheme:	Network
Starts:	05 March 2007	Ends:	04 September 2010	Value (£):	158,083
EPSRC Research Topic Classifications:	Control Engineering Robotics & Autonomy
EPSRC Industrial Sector Classifications:	No relevance to Underpinning Sectors
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The proposed new network will generate interdisciplinary research collaboration and bring together mechatronics/robotics researches from the UK and Japan, to share experiences and formalise discussions for defining a common strategy for future R&D and collaborations at all level of research, teaching and technology transfer. Such a network is vital if the different communities in Japan and UK are to work together for mutual benefit. The network will also act as a knowledge base from the existing mechatronics/robotics community to create a new research community in human adaptive mechatronics able to address the many common challenges (e.g. Pollution / CO2 issue, Aging population issue, etc) in UK and Japan. In particular, the network will explore a number of key challenges: such as a) Investigating the modelling of a man-machine system that explicitly includes all necessary functions of humans as machine operators with sufficient accuracy; b) Implementation of human adaptive behaviour in autonomous systems; c) Application of human adaptive mechatronics to upgrade UK high-tech products; d) Development of human adaptive mechatronics into biomedical applications; e) Development of mathematics to model and analysis human adaptive mechatronic processes in productions.
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