Toshihiko Shimizu Web

I'm an assistant professor of Kobe City College of Technology, 8-3, Gakuen-higasi-machi, Nishi-ku, Kobe, Hyogo, 651-2194, JAPAN.

Research

Dynamic motions, such as walking, running, jumping and etc, have been one of most difficult tasks in the fields of robotic control and machine learning. I have been interested in a method which achieves dynamic tasks from reusing the experiences of successful motions.
One of the ideas to reuse the experiences is to figure out few critical states and actions to achieve the dynamic task. Especially, we inspired from the transitions of motion states, and proposed the novel motion feature named changing order. So far, we have proposed a method which searches the transitions from Human-Robot Interaction and reuse it in novel scenario.

Educations

September 2013
Doctor of Engineering, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan
Thesis: “Adaptive Mechanisms to Physical Interactions in Humanoid Motion Learning”
Supervisor: Prof. Hiroshi Ishiguro, Shuhei Ikemoto, Ryo Saegusa
March 2009
Master of Engineering, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan
Thesis: “Analysis of the Knack in Dynamic Motion based on Motor Command ”
Supervisor: Prof. Hiroshi Ishiguro, Shuhei Ikemoto
March 2007
Bachelor of Engineering, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan
Thesis: “Evaluation of Fatigue Strength of near-surface crack in residual stress field”
Supervisor: Prof. Shiro Kubo, Masahiro Tsuji

Experiences

April 2012
April 2011
October 2010
April 2007
Research Fellow of JSPS
Research Assistant of Engineering Science of Osaka University
Researcher of Italian Institute of Technology (IIT)
Research Assistant of Japan Science and Technology Agency, ERATO, Asada Synergistic Intelligence Project

Activities

Conference Committee
Program Committee of the “Special Research Committee on Embodiment Cognitive Science and Real world Application”
Volunteer
Student Volunteer Co-Chair of the HRI, 2010

Skills

Language
Japanese (native), English (fluent), Italian (amateur)
Systems
Mac/ Linux / Windows,
C / C++, R, ODE, python, LATEX
Hobbies
Cartoon, bicycles, leather craft, DIY, cooking, singing