TUT-ISYS（Institute for System Dynamics, University of Stuttgart）
International Cooperative Research Laboratory for Advanced
Systems Engineering

Directors○Directors(AIST)○○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, and the environment.
We are also developing human resources for agriculture by conducting three training
courses, the Frontier Plant Factory Manager, the Frontier Course in IT for Land-utilizing
Farming, and the Training Program for Sixth Sector Industrialization, 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 Research Center
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 traffic
big-data

Car detection forvulnerable road users

Saburo Tanaka
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-academia
collaboration,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)
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