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Associate Prof. Manabu Tsukada recently participated in the prestigious IEEE International Conference on Metaverse Computing, Networking, and Applications (IEEE MetaCom 2023) held in Kyoto, Japan from June 26-28, 2023. This conference served as a pivotal platform for discussing the integration of physical and cyber worlds, essential for developing the Metaverse. The conference emphasized the transformative potential of the Metaverse in various sectors, including industry, finance, healthcare, smart cities, entertainment, education, and agriculture. It highlighted the challenges and opportunities in areas such as human-machine interfaces, ultra-low latency, resource demands, reliability, and trustworthiness. Prof. Tsukada presented a paper titled “Semantic Digital Twin for interoperability and comprehensive management of data assets.” The paperRead more

June 2024, Pengfei Lin, a D3 student from our laboratory, had the opportunity to present his research at the 35th IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV 2023), held in Anchorage, Alaska, USA. The conference, renowned for gathering experts from academia, industry, and government agencies, focuses on the latest advancements in Intelligent Vehicles and Infrastructure, providing a significant platform for sharing new ideas and technological breakthroughs. Pengfei presented his paper titled “Time-to-Collision-Aware Lane-Change Strategy Based on Potential Field and Cubic Polynomial for Autonomous Vehicles.” His research, aiming to enhance the safety of autonomous vehicle lane-changing maneuvers, has shown promising results, reducing the length and curvature of lane change trajectories significantly, ensuring smootherRead more

The research outcomes of the CREST Internet of Realities project will be exhibited at Interop Tokyo 2023, to be held at Makuhari Messe from June 14 to 16, 2023. Tsukada Laboratory team will exhibit the following two demonstrations. External Human-Machine Interface for self-driving cars using Augmented Reality Web viewer for Building Information Modeling Booth Info: 4T24 Here is the handout of the project.Read more

We recently had the honor of hosting Prof. Phillip Morgan from Cardiff University at our University laboratory. Prof. Morgan, a renowned expert in Human Factors and Cognitive Science, presented his research and explored potential future collaborations with our team. This visit marked a significant step towards fostering strong academic ties between our institutions. The participants in the meeting were (from left to right in the top picture):Read more

On March 17th 2023, our laboratory joined the PF Lab Kickoff Meeting, hosted by Tier4, featuring researchers from NTU, Nagoya University, and Gifu University. Representing our lab, Prof. Manabu Tsukada, Prof. Ehsan Javanmardi, and Ph.D. student Pengfei Lin presented their latest work.Read more

2nd-year master student Mr. Asabe received the Best Poster Award at The 17th Asian Internet Engineering Conference (AINTEC) 2022 held in Hiroshima, Japan.Read more

Associate Professor Tsukada will serve as session chair for the Vertical Track: Transportation at the IEEE 8th World Forum on Internet of Things (WF-IoT) 2022 to be held in Yokohama, Japan. Dr. Nakazato and Mr. Pengfei Lin will also give presentations.Read more

We had the pleasure of welcoming visitors from Australian Centre for Field Robotics (ACFR), University of Sydney. This visit was an opportunity to introduce the ongoing projects and foresee future research collaborations. Visitors: Stephany Berrio Karan Narura Darren TsaiRead more

Four students from Tsukada lab visited California, USA to attend theRead more

Future Internet (ISSN 1999-5903) is now accepting articles for a special issueRead more

Associate Professor Tsukada became a member of the “Study Group on Utilization of Metaverse for the Web3 Era” of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications. 1 Purpose The Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC) is organizing a new “Study Group on Utilization of Metaverse, etc. for the Web3 Era” with the aim of organizing issues related to information and communications administration, keeping in mind various use cases from the perspective of user understanding and digital infrastructure environment, in order to improve user convenience, provide the metaverse, etc. appropriately and smoothly, and create innovation, as the market for Web3 is expanding. The new “Study Group on Utilization of Metaverse,Read more

Team TLAB, consisting of Kambara-san (Master 2nd) and Asabe-san (Master 2nd), won third place in the Japan Automotive AI Challenge 2022Read more

Manabu Tsukada give a talk in AINTEC 2021 in Virtual Conference. The presentation title was “Cooperative Automated Driving Using Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X)”.Read more

We received the Best Paper Award for the results presented at the Symposium on Multimedia, Distributed, Cooperative and Mobile (DICOMO2021).Read more

On May 22, 2021, we gave a presentation about the Tsukada Lab at the Graduate School of Information Science and Technology’s entrance exam briefing, and the video is now available. Admissions | Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, The University of TokyoRead more

We start working with Tier IV inc, and Prof. Nobuo Kawaguchi of Nagoya University on the NEDO project.Read more

From February to November 2021, Prof. Tsukada stays at Aalto University, Finland as a visiting faculty member and collaborates with Prof. Tarik Takeb’s Mosaic-Lab. Classes, lab meetings, and other tasks will be done remotely.Read more

From January 2021, Associate Professor Tsukada joins the Dynamic Map 2.0 consortium, concurrently serving as Designated Associate professor at Center for Embedded Computing Systems, Graduate School of Informatics, Nagoya University.Read more

We won the first prize and the ontology prize in Linked Open Data Challenge 2020 Japan. See more detail about SDM Ontology (in Japanese). Read more

Our paper published in Symposium on Multimedia, Distributed, Cooperative and Mobile Systems (DICOMO2020) won the best presentation award.Read more