2021／2022

Research Institute forTechnological Science and Innovation (RITI)The Research Institute for Technological Science and Innovation (RITI) was established on April 1, 2016 toenhance our university's research capabilities by promoting collaborative research with leading companies and top
research institutions both domestically and abroad. The RITI is an umbrella organization for research at TUT
consisting of the Electronics-Inspired Interdisciplinary Research Institute (EIIRIS), which is an existing research
institute; four Research Centers; three new Strategic Research divisions; and the Advanced Research CollaborativeLaboratory.
The EIIRIS is TUT's ﬂagship research base for the advancement of interdisciplinary research which combines
research on innovative electronic technologies, such as smart sensing, with advanced application ﬁelds, including
robotics, artiﬁcial intelligence, information and communication technology, life science, agricultural engineering, theenvironment, disaster prevention, design, and chemistry/materials.
The Strategic Research Department adopts an open application system for selecting research themes and amatching fund system to the maximum extent possible. The department consists of various projects integratingstate-of-the-art ICT, such as sensor/device technology, AI and IT technology, and robot technology, as well as CPStechnologies, all of which are our strengths, with cutting-edge application ﬁelds. In addition, the Strategic Research
Department is made up of three divisions: the Emergent System Research Division which creates new values; theSocial System Research Division which solves problems in collaboration with local communities and society; and theAdvanced Research Division which has a strong collaboration system with the world's top research institutions andleading companies. In cooperation with the existing EIIRIS and four Research Centers, the department is advancing
research aiming at making open innovation a reality.
TUT works as a research university which adopts large-scale projects relating to its research, such as theResearch University Enhancement Promotion Program, the Program on Open Innovation Platform with Enterprises,
Research Institute and Academia (OPERA), and the National University Management Reform Promotion Program. By
simultaneously promoting basic research and applied research for practical use, TUT makes an eﬀort to acceleratesocial implementation and commercialization, and aims to become a university that shines brightly in the world.

I was appointed as the second Head of the Research Institute for Technological Science and Innovation (RITI) onApril 1, 2020.
The RITI was established on April 1, 2016 with the objective of strategically planning, promoting, managing andpublicizing the Electronics-Inspired Interdisciplinary Research Institute (EIIRIS), the Research Center, the Advanced
Research Collaborative Laboratory, and the Cooperative Project for Innovative Research. In particular, the Advanced
Research Collaborative Laboratory, which was newly established in the academic year 2015, is advancing globally
cutting-edge research by combining the outstanding science and technology of both prestigious foreign universities'
laboratories and leading Japanese research institutes/ companies. In addition, the Cooperative Project for Innovative
Research is a new initiative that aims to create innovation using a large-scale matching fund system between
universities and companies and is beginning to produce results. The Research Administration Center (RAC) isresponsible for the smooth operation of the RITI, providing research support in project planning, contracts, legal
aﬀairs and intellectual property creation/management.
Since its incorporation, TUT has been designated as a university to participate in the large projects carried out by
the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT), including the Research UniversityEnhancement Promotion Program, "Research Promotion Administration Center (RAC); the Program for Leading
Graduate Schools, "Fostering Brain Information Architects with Advanced Technology for Ultra Large Scale BrainInformation"; and the Top Global University Project. Only a handful of universities in Japan have been selected forthese three MEXT projects. In the future, we aim to vigorously promote cutting-edge research and produce various
outstanding research to develop new creative industries centering on innovation. To this end, we will take anopen-application approach placing electronics technology at its core, and proactively incorporate diﬀerent ﬁelds,such as robotics, information and communication technology including artiﬁcial intelligence and IoT, life sciencessuch as medical welfare and biotechnology, chemistry and new materials, agriculture, earthquake-resistance anddisaster prevention, and environment and urban engineering.

Kazuhiko Terashima

Shinichi Yamamoto

Executive Trustee, Vice President（Research, International Aﬀairs, SDGs,Internal Control）
Director of Research Institute forTechnological Science and Innovation
Toyohashi University of Technology(()

Advanced Research
Collaborative Laboratory

Innovation Centerfor Venture Business

TUT-ISYSInternational Cooperative
Research Laboratory forAdvanced SystemsEngineering

Support for venturecompanies

Promotion ofresearchcollaborative

Research Administration Center（RAC）
Oﬃce for Research
StrategyOﬃce for Promotion ofIndustry-Academia Collaboration)

Oﬃce for Risk Management ofindustry-academia Collaboration

Oﬃce for Technology
Support Service

Oﬃce for OPERA
Support Service()

1. Promotion of Emergent System Research for the creation of new values, which isevolving at a rapid pace and which incorporates TUT s strengths such as sensing,artiﬁcial intelligence, and robotics research
2. Promotion of Social System Research for solving problems, which can contribute to local
communities
3. Promotion of Advanced Interdisciplinary Research through strong collaboration withleading companies and top research institutions both domestically and abroad

Reinfocing the development ofapplication and interdisciplinary
research based on sensory,artiﬁcial
intelligence and robotics researchusing the open application method*

The Cooperative Project for Innovative Research is a project to promote eﬀective
interdisciplinary research. The project will develop the frontiers of speciﬁc ﬁelds using amatching fund format with domestic and overseas research institutions and companies; andwill strengthen the ability of participants to implement and advocate for the results ofresearch in society.
In addition, the Research Institute for Technological Science and Innovation (RITI) will be
used as a learning space for graduate students in the ﬁve-year integrated doctoral program
through the "Fostering Brain Information Architects with Advanced Technology for Ultra
Large-Scale Brain Information succeeding the Program for Leading Graduate Schools.

TUT-ISYS（Institute for System Dynamics, University of Stuttgart）
International Cooperative Research Laboratory for Advanced
Systems Engineering
Directors○University of Stuttgart
Oliver Sawodny○Toyohashi University of Technology
Naoki Uchiyama

The Electronics-Inspired Interdisciplinary Research Institute (EIIRIS) was established in October2010 as Toyohashi University of Technology s ﬁrst research institute to explore the technologicalsciences and their applications. More speciﬁcally, EIIRIS s objectives are to develop interdisciplinary
research of smart sensing, photonics information devices, and other innovative electronics technology and their advanced application in ﬁelds such as robotics, telecommunications, the life sciences,
agricultural engineering, environmental science, and disaster prevention.
In April 2019, EIIRIS expanded its research structure from the existing two research disciplines toﬁve, signaling the start of research and development in new interdisciplinary.

Innovative Sensor Technology
We have realized various devices
utilizing accumulated design andfabrication technologies for sensors,
MEMS and LSI that have been highly
regarded worldwide. We will promote thecreation and demonstration of innovative
sensors and MEMS devices while
collaborating this strength with materials
research institutes and applied research institutes.

Innovative Applied Sensing Technology
Our research interests include humancognitive functions and mechanisms
behind the interpersonal communicationand human-robot interaction by utilizing
multidimensional information,e.g. humanbehavior or brain activities, acquired bymultimodal advanced sensors.

Advanced Agricultural Engineering
Focusing on the development of sensor-based plant diagnosis
techniques (Chlorophyll fluorescence imaging, volatile organic
compound measurement, photosynthesis and transpiration

measurement etc.) for agricultural
production under environmental control
such as intelligent greenhouse and plantfactory.

Advanced Environmental Sensing
Our group is developing low-noise
Josephson junctions and highly sensitive
SQUID magnetometers for applicationof nondestructive inspection and ultralow field MRI. We are also studying
optimization of terahertz-wave sensor
arrays such as microwave kinetic
inductance detectors.

Advanced Life Sciences

Our research focuses on understanding
cellular and molecular basis that underliesinter- and intraspecies interactions,behavior, and neuronal function oforganisms, along with developing
innovative electronic devices.

Research Center

Toward a society where people and robots can coexist at high level and fruitefull lives,
we are developing various type of service robots such as welfare robots that perform
walk training and physical support, harvest support robots, intelligent lighting systems,etc. And we are conducting researches on human-robot symbiosis technologies basedon the weak-robots concept, socally assistive robot technologies, and novel acutuators
using ultrasonic motor.

Toshihiko Eki
Director
This center was established for applying a range of our engineering technologies toagriculture. The center members, full-time speciﬁcally appointed professors as well as
researchers in diﬀerent departments, are collaborating and conducting research into
agriculture, sensing systems, biotechnology, the environment, and smart agri-tech citysystems.
We are also developing human resources for agriculture by conducting the following
training courses: the Advanced Course for Managing Plant Factory, the Advanced
Course for IT-based Land-utilizing Farming, and the Training Course for the Sixth Sector
Industrialization, the Practical Course for Chrysanthemum and Tomato Cultivations, andthe New Farmer Support Course (only in 2021), respectively.

At our center,we conduct research into disaster prevention in the community and risk
reduction in local areas by looking not just at natural disasters, but also at risks on abroader scale in the environment and everyday living. For this reason,we cooperate
closely with local administrations,industries, and community groups,and throughcross-collaboration with professors in related ﬁelds,we are endeavoring to develop
technology and put our project aimed at reducing risk into practice.We are also striving
to ensure the results of our research continue to beneﬁt the community,and to establish
a base for general academic research to contribute to creating a safe community full ofvitality.

Wearable sensing forsafe driving

Innovation Center for Venture Business
It has been established for the purpose of utilizing
the research results and human resources to support
the start-up of a venture company, the research anddevelopment of commercialization after the start-up,
and the promotion of joint research.
We are waiting for the use of everyone, such ascompanies.

Visualization of traﬃcbig-data

Car detection forvulnerable road users

At the RAC, URAs who are well versed in education,research,

Saburo Tanaka

and development conducted at our university, and also have
suﬃcient knowledge of what is required by society, are responsible for the following jobs:

Research Institute forTechnological Science and Innovation

Office for Risk Management ofindustry-academia Collaboration· Manages issues such as conflicts of interest,

confidential information management and security export
control in order to facilitate industry-academia collaboration.
the risk management for industry-academiacollaboration,8)

Office for OPERA Support Service· Support the research program on OPERA (Open Innovation
Platform with Enterprises,Research Institute and Academia)
promoted by Japan Science and Technology Agency.

(Building D-101)
441-8580+81-532-44-1561+81-532-44-6980

Main Research Topics of the Cooperative Project for
Innovative Research 2019
Emergent System Research Division
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Department of Computer Science andEngineering

Research Project for Social Implementation of Weak-robots
Concept

Department of Electrical andElectronic Information Engineering

Advanced tool Coating Technological Laboratory, OSG-TUT
Collaboration (ACTO),2nd stage

Michio Okada

Hirofumi Takikawa

Department of Architecture and CivilEngineering

Taiki Saito

Department of Electrical andElectronic Information Engineering

Kazuaki Sawada

Development of technology to improve earthquake
resistance of buildings using dynamic pulley damper
mechanism
Development of multimodal sensing technologies forvisualization of physical / chemical information inmicro-meter scale

Department of Computer Science andEngineering

Estimation and control for human status by using physicalcare robot

Electronics-Inspired Interdisciplinary ResearchInstituteDevelopment of multimodal gas sensing technology forenvironment measurement

Michiteru Kitazaki

Toshihiko Noda

Department of Computer Science andEngineering

Jun Miura

Electronics-Inspired Interdisciplinary ResearchInstitute/Department of Applied Chemistryand Life Science

Saburo Tanaka

Research Center for Future Vehicle City

Takashi Ohira

Next-generation Robotic Farming in Greenhouse Horticulture
Development of Ultra-Sensitive Contaminant Detection
System for Li-ion Battery Components
Wireless Power Transfer Serendipity That Enables Automatic
Drone Charging Stations to Come True

Social System Research Division
2-1

Department of Architecture and Civil
Engineering

Kojiro Matsuo

Community-based Road and Traﬃc Management that Make
Use of Big-Data: Toyohashi Model

Main Research Topics of the Cooperative Project for
Innovative Research 2020
Emergent System Research Division
1-1

Department of Mechanical Engineering

Takayuki Shibata

Microﬂuidic-based Genetic Diagnostic and Improving
Technologies for Enhancing Food Safety

Emergent System Research Division
1-2

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1-5

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1-7

Research Center for Future Vehicle City

Shinji Abe

Department of Applied Chemistry and Life
ScienceYuu Hirose

Wireless power-transfer system for small vehicles

Production of the Functional Foods from Algal Cells

Department of Mechanical Engineering

Capsule Endoscope Robot Technology using Micro
Ultrasonic Motor

Department of Electrical and Electronic
Information Engineering

Development of biomarker inspection system using MEMS
biosensor

Department of Electrical and Electronic
Information Engineering

Prediction of photovoltaic generation and weather sensoring
network

Tomoaki Mashimo

Kazuhiro Takahashi

Toru Harigai

Research Center for Agrotechnology andBiotechnology

Takahiro Yamauchi

Development of rooting in the direct planting of a cutting
cultivation of the chrysanthemum and the root taking
promotion techniqueSocial System Research Division
2-1

Student Support Center

Hiroyuki Daimon

Enhancement of Compact Biogas Power Generation System tothe Entire Country

Advanced Research Division
3-1

Information and Media Center

Hitoshi Goto

Development of automatic optimal control technology formarket-linked AI vegitable factories

Main Research Topics of the Cooperative Project for
Innovative Research 2021
Emergent System Research Division
1-1

Department of Applied chemistry and LifeScienceRika Numano

Elucidation of disease onset mechanism and functional
recovery by long-term neuronal activity and behavioral analysisof disease model mice