Robot Development Engineering Laboratory, RDE
Kumagai Lab.

Department of Mechanical Engineering and Intelligent Systems, Faculty of Engineering, Tohoku Gakuin University

RDE Edu.
Lecture notes 		RDE Dev.
Research and Development section
All of contents are written in Japanese.
 Mainly written in Japanese.
Research works
Robot implementation [english]
  • Biped robots
  • Wheeled robots
  • Inverted pendulum based
  • Image processing
Technical Documents
RDE Lib.
Software service and libraries
All contents are written in Japanese.
RDE Info.
Laboratory information
Members
Chatting room

News:

  • 09/Jul/2010 Journal paper on BallIP published. Available at Fuji Technology Press Abstract and PDF Download (Fulltext download requires a simple and free registration)
  • 29/Apr/2010 BallIP is introduced by IEEE spectrum blog. Thank you!.
    And also introduced by boing boing, gizmode, engadget, popsci, dvice, geek, make (So many articles, and I cannot list all). Thanks all.
    Movie used in ICRA09 WMV(12Mbyte) For detail, please refer a proceeding for ICRA09, available at IEEE explore by searching "balanced on a ball", or ask me via Inquiry form. One journal paper will be published soon.
  • Masaaki KUMAGAI is now in CMU The Robotics Institute for a year in sabbatical until the end of Aug/2010, with one BallIP.
  • 22/May/2008 English version becomes available.
  • 15/Mar/2008 Balancing Robot on Ball, revision up! movie WMV (2Mbps, 30Mbyte) MPEG1 (1.2Mbps, 23Mbyte) MPEG1 (0.2Mbps, 3.4Mbyte)
  • 27/Feb/2008 Balancing Robot on Ball, developing story (additional format) MPEG2 (2Mbps, 87Mbyte) MPEG1 (1.2Mbps, 55Mbyte)
  • 27/Feb/2008 Balancing Robot on Ball, developing story WMV (2Mbps, 64Mbyte) WMV (500kbps, 17Mbyte)

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Location
Room 2204, 2nd building in Tohoku Gakuin Tagajo campus,
Chuo 1-13-1, Tagajo city, Miyagi prefecture, Japan.
ZIP: 985-8537 (JP)
Phone: +81-22-368-7358 		Location on Google Map

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