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Shinji Kume
Visiting Industrial Scholar

No longer a member of RI.

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My research interests focus on factory automation and related networking systems.

Real-time data acquisition from various equipment on the shop floor and data tracking from upper stream to downstream in the consecutive process are included in those interests. Distributed automation system using multiple robotic agents which makes the time to market drastically shorten is the research field I've been focusing on. Especially, the communication infrastructure and protocols are catching my attention.

assembly, control, factory and warehouse automation, multi-agent systems, networking, and rapid prototyping

• Microdynamic Systems Laboratory - Exploring the limits of robotics in terms of speed, precision, dexterity and miniaturization.

• Architecture for Agile Assembly - Reduction of time to market in agile manufacturing

Note: This list may not be comprehensive. It contains only those publications in the RI publications database. Entries are listed in reverse chronological order.

• A high-performance network infrastructure and protocols for distributed automation
  S. Kume and A. Rizzi
  Proceedings of the 2001 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA '01), Vol. 3, May, 2001, pp. 3121 - 3126. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [516 KB] copyrighted

• Visually Guided Coordination for Distributed Precision Assembly
  M. Chen, S. Kume, A. Rizzi, and R. Hollis
  IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation 2000, Vol. 2, April, 2000, pp. 1651 - 1656. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [424 KB], ps.gz [386 KB] copyrighted