Research Institute forTechnological Science and Innovation (RITI)

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.

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（Research seeds）

Research Promotion and Social Collaboration Division
Toyohashi University of Technology（RITI）

Creating new value and Revitalizing the community through research

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 Electronics-Inspired Interdisciplinary Research Institute (EIIRIS) was established in October 2010 as Toyohashi University of Technology sﬁrst research institute to explore the technological sciences 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 to ﬁve, signaling the start of research anddevelopment in new interdisciplinary.

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

This center was established for applying a range of our engineering technologies to agriculture. The center members, full-time speciﬁcallyappointed professors as well as researchers in diﬀerent departments, are collaborating and conducting research into agriculture, sensing
systems, biotechnology, the environment, and smart agri-tech city systems.
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, thePractical Course for Chrysanthemum and Tomato Cultivations, and the New Farmer Support Course (only in 2021), respectively.

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.

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Advanced Research
Collaborative Laboratory

Innovation Centerfor Venture Business

NCU-TUT Cooperative
Research Laboratory
for Medical andPharmaceuticalEngineering
TUT ‒ NDL(NIKKA DENSOK LIMITED)
Cooperative ResearchLaboratory for Magnetic
Sensor Application

Support for venturecompanies

Promotion ofresearchcollaborative

1Oﬃce for Promotion ofIndustry-Academia Collaboration

Oﬃce for Risk Management ofindustry-academia Collaboration

Oﬃce for Technology
Support Service

Wearable sensing for

Visualization of traﬃc

Car detection forsafe driving

big-data

vulnerable road users

Wireless electric vehicle

Innovation Center for Venture BusinessResearch Administration Center（RAC）
Oﬃce for Research
Strategy)

At our center,we conduct research into disaster prevention in the community and risk reduction in local areas bylooking not just at natural disasters, but also at risks on a broader scale in the environment and everyday living. For thisreason,we cooperate closely with local administrations,industries, and community groups,and through cross-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 toestablish a base for general academic research to contribute to creating a safe community full of vitality.

Oﬃce for OPERA
Support Service

It has been established for the purpose of utilizing the research results
and human resources to support the start-up of a venture company, theresearch and development of commercialization after the start-up,and thepromotion of joint research.
We are waiting for the use of everyone, such as companies.

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