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Mobility innovation by advanced technologies at The University of Tokyo

Abstract

The University of Tokyo has established the Mobility Innovation Collaborative Research Organization, and is promoting industry-academia-government collaboration projects related to mobility innovation using advanced technologies. Among them, some activities of the Suda Laboratory, which is based on vehicle engineering and mechanical engineering. The following projects are introduced: development and experiments on public road of the automated driving bus , development of lean steer vehicles, and research on railway vehicles using independent rotating wheels with negative tread conicity.

Biography

Yoshihiro SUDA is Professor of Institute of Industrial Science (IIS) and director of Mobility Innovation Collaborative Research Organization (UTmobI). He graduated from The University of Tokyo, Department of Mechanical Engineering in 1982 and got Doctoral Degree in 1987. He stayed as Guest Associate Professor of Queen’s University at Kingston, Canada from 1991 to 1993. His research areas are dynamics and control engineering, human-machine interface. He is a board member and former executive vice president of JSME and JSAE,  and charged committee member of Japanese Governments. He hosted many international conferences.