TATSUO ARAI @ OSAKA UNIVERSITY

Tatsuo ARAI was born in 1952 in Tokyo. He received B.S. M.S. and PhD degrees from the University of Tokyo in 1975, 1977, and 1986 respectively. He joined the Mechanical Engineering Laboratory, AIST, MITI (now METI) in 1977, and was engaged in research and development of new arm design and control, mobile robot, teleoperation, and micro robotics. He stayed at MIT as a visiting scientist in 1986-1987. He was an adjunct lecturer at Chiba University in 1986-1996, and a visiting professor at the Science University of Tokyo in 1996-1997. He moved to Osaka University in 1997 and since then he has been a Full Professor at the Department of Systems Innovation, Graduate School of Engineering Science. His current research topics are mechanism design including parallel mechanisms, legged working robot, micro robotics for bio applications, humanoid robot, haptic interface. He has published more than 300 journal and conference papers on robotics, 6 books, and has 37 patents including foreign 8. The publication list is on http://www-arailab.sys.es.osaka-u.ac.jp/result.html
He is a member of IEEE, International Association of Automation and Robotics in Construction (IAARC), Robotic Society of Japan (RSJ), Society of Instrumentation and Control Engineers, Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers (JSME), and 3 other societies. He is a Vice President of IAARC, and served as a President of Robotics and Mechatronics Division of JSME, a Director of RSJ. He is an Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Robotics and Mechatronics. He works for the Cabinet Office as a chair of the Technical Advisory Committee of the Destruction of Abandoned Chemical Weapon. He has been organizing and chairing many research committees, conferences, and symposia for IEEE, IAARC, RSJ, SICE, and JSME.