Akihiro MATSUMOTO's profile

Name

Akihiro MATSUMOTO

Contact address

Toyo University, Department of Mechanical Engineering

2100 Kujirai, Kawagoe, Saitama 350-8585, Japan

Tel: (+81) 49-239-1344

Fax: (+81) 49-233-9779

E-mail: akihiro@toyo.jp

Web: http://www.eng.toyo.ac.jp/~akihiro/index-e.html

Title

Vice-dean of the Faculty of Science and Engineering (Apr. 2009 - Mar. 2011)

Professor, Doctor of Engineering

Research Themes

• Distributed Autonomous Robotics System,
• Human support technology using robotics
• Passive dynamic walking machine
• Microassembly machine

(visit the page for research for detail.)

Membership of Learned Societies

• IEEE - Robotics and Automation Society
• Robotics Society of Japan (RSJ)
• Japan Society for Mechanical Engineers (JSME)
• Society of Instrumentation and Control Engineering (SICE)
• Japan Society of Precision Engineering (JSPE)
• Japan Robot Association (JARA)
• NPO Japan Association for Automation Advancement (JAAA) (president of the NPO)
• NPO RoboCup Japanese National Committee (director)

Educational history

1958	Born in Kagoshima, Japan
1971-1977	La Salle Junior High School and High School in Kagoshima, Japan
1977-1981	University of Tokyo, Department of Precision Machinery Engineering
1981-1983	Graduate School of the University of Tokyo
1983	received "Master of Engineering" from the University of Tokyo
1988	received "Doctor of Engineering" from the University of Tokyo

Professional history

1983-1988	Research Associate at the University of Tokyo
1988-1990	Assistant Professor at Toyo University, Department of Mechanical Engineering
1990-2004	Associate Professor at Toyo University, Department of Mechanical Engineering
1994-1995	Visiting researcher and visiting associate professor at l'Université Louis Pasteur Strasbourg (ENSPS: Ecôle Nationale Supérieure de Physique de Strasbourg), France
2004-2005	Professor at Toyo University, Department of Mechanical Engineering
2005-2009	Professor at Toyo University, Department of System Robotics
2009-	Professor at Toyo University, Department of Mechanical Engineering; Vice-Dean of the Faculty

Languages spoken:

Japanese, Kagoshima dialect of Japanese (^_^), English, French (un peu)