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Team Outline
The team utilizes information technologies, new materials, and other advanced technologies to conduct R&D to improve construction machines, evaluate exhaust gas performance, rationalize construction production technologies and systems, ensure reliability of systems and machines and lower their costs, perform more efficient maintenance, and improve methods of evaluating the environmental impact of construction projects.

Research Contents ・Research on automatic control of excavation work by hydraulic excavators Civil engineering work includes disaster restoration and prevention works and many others that are dangerous and unpleasant. Improving these hard work environments to ensure safety is a pressing challenge. And measures are needed to deal with the aging of construction workers, a lack of young workers, and a shortage of skilled workers caused by the falling birth rate and aging of society. This requires the use of information technology (IT) and robotic technology (RT) that have advanced remarkably to improve civil engineering works. This research applies an IT execution system based on robots etc. to develop automatic control technology for hydraulic excavators as a basic technology in order to eliminate dangerous and unpleasant work and to perform work faster and more efficiently. The control technology developed is automatic control technology for hydraulic excavators that will permit somewhat autonomous excavation and loading work based on 3D information about the on-site topography that the work constantly changes and about the design.

Other major research themes:
・Survey research to help evaluate exhaust gas performance of construction machines that is related to environmental impacts of construction work
・Research to ensure reliability and to lower the cost of flood control related machinery and systems that prevent flood discharge (
・Research on information linkage and sharing technologies throughout the work cycle of a construction project

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