| Research Outline |
Companies that produce human-related moving vehicles, such as automobiles, aircraft, and construction machinery, are required to significantly shorten development time in order to respond to soaring raw material costs, cost reduction, expansion of emerging markets, globalization, digitalization, automation, and efficient competition in new product development. To this end, it is necessary to minimize prototyping through simulation and other means in the design stage, and apply innovative motion control and highly efficient power transmission technologies to the actual product fabrication, measurement, inspection, and testing processes to develop and bring to market high-grade, high-performance, high-value-added products in a short time. For example, by building an automobile test system using a motion simulator and the hardware of humans and major automobile components (engine and electric motor) and the software that controls them (hardware and human-in-the-loop), it is possible to develop new cars and automated driving technologies with the rapid feedback from developers and development systems. It is expected to provide rapid feedback from developers and development systems, a significant reduction in on-road testing time, simple element changes and adjustments at the design stage, improved test safety, and high reliability and repeatability, and will be very powerful in the development of a wide range of research into testing systems and manufacturing technologies for mobile vehicles that involve humans. Also, the introduction of innovative elemental technologies into hydraulic power transmission systems for automobiles, airplanes, construction machinery, etc. can lead to higher performance and higher quality systems.
The manufacturing, measurement, inspection, and testing processes of research and development of such new products can utilize the latest motion control and power transmission technologies represented by various types of testing equipment, manufacturing equipment, flight simulators, and driving simulators. Research and development of motion control and power transmission technologies for testing and manufacturing equipment and simulators is a comprehensive systemization technology that encompasses a very wide range of cutting-edge technological fields. For example, the field of technological development surrounding flight simulators in the aircraft industry is extremely broad and covers a wide range of interdisciplinary research and development, from control, imaging, and computer graphics to actuators and mechanisms, sensors and measurements, new materials, and ergonomic interface design.
In the field of technology for various testing machines and simulators, power transmission systems for work machines, and innovative manufacturing equipment, there is an urgent need to develop new motion mechanisms, actuators, and other mechanical elements that are compact, highly efficient, and have high-performance features, and to research and develop motion control technology for them. Further breakthroughs are required through the fusion and combination of technologies.
The Institute contributes to the development of research and development in the fields of advanced motion control technology, power transmission system technology, and innovative manufacturing equipment technology, which require further sophistication and the crossing and combining of a wide range of technologies, and it also exchanges and trains researchers in related technologies and conducts education and research in the comprehensive interdisciplinary field of motion simulators and power transmission systems. The Institute for Advanced Motion Simulator Technology of Hosei University Graduate School was established in January 2009 to contribute to education and research in the comprehensive interdisciplinary field of motion simulators and power transmission systems. For 14 years until March 2023, the institute has obtained a large number of external funds and achieved various research results and exchange activities (official website: http://hams.ws.hosei.ac.jp/ ).
From April 2023, under new goals and activity plans, the Institute will continue to establish the Hosei University Research Institute for Advanced Motion Simulators (HAMS), which will focus on motion control technology and The institute will conduct extensive research, analysis, and deployment of motion control and motion simulator technologies, innovative power transmission technologies, and manufacturing technologies.
The Institute's education and research efforts in advanced motion simulator technology, motion control technology, power transmission technology, and manufacturing equipment technology will also lead to the development of advanced engineering professionals, and will be developed into a comprehensive design education and research field and organized with a view to training advanced engineers. It is expected to make a significant contribution to the development of the education and research fields of the University's Faculty of Engineering and Design, Faculty of Science and Engineering, and Graduate School of Engineering and Design, as well as the Graduate School of Science and Engineering.
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