• Title/Summary/Keyword: Tsukuba

Search Result 446, Processing Time 0.022 seconds

Kansei Evaluation by a Remote-Controlled Robot Designed for Viewing Art Exhibits

  • Akira, Lkazaki;Hiroya, Igarashi;Shoichi, Maeyama;Akira, Harada
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society for Emotion and Sensibility Conference
    • /
    • 2000.04a
    • /
    • pp.301-305
    • /
    • 2000
  • The present study is part of the Special Research Project for the Construction of a Kansei Sensory Evaluation Model that is currently underway at the University of Tsukuba. In this study, a robot was operated by remote control at an actual art museum as part of a preliminary experiment. The results obtained therefrom were used to consider how people might view exhibits. In a previous study, a standard lens and s wide-angle lens were used to analyze differences in sensory-based movements, while VRML was used to analyze differences in these movements between a virtual and an actual museum. In the present study, the time delay in remote operation, which is currently unavoidable, placed some restrictions on the degree of freedom with which exhibits could be viewed, but it was apparent that sensory evaluation could be possible depending on the search behavior and viewing time. Furthermore specific viewing behaviors using the robot were observed, suggesting that new Kansei sensory perceptions were derived from these behaviors.

  • PDF

A modified analytical model of proton Bragg curves

  • Takizawa, Ken-ichi;Yoshihisa Takada;Takeharu Nakashima;Syunsuke Kohno;Yuhsuke Kobayashi
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Medical Physics Conference
    • /
    • 2002.09a
    • /
    • pp.186-188
    • /
    • 2002
  • An improved analytical model has been developed to calculate an accurate Bragg curve of proton beam with an arbitrary energy. The model takes the transport of the secondary protons produced by the nuclear inelastic reactions into account. By the model, measured Bragg curves of proton beams with ten energies between 250 and 70 MeV are reproduced well. It will serve to obtain fundamental data for treatment planning and for energy scanning.

  • PDF

Experimental Evaluation of Proton Dose Calculations in Phantoms Simulating a Clinical Heterogeneity in Patients

  • Kohno, Ryosuke;Takada, Yoshihisa;Sakae, Takeji;Terunuma, Toshiyuki;Matsumoto, Keiji;Nohtomi, Akihiro;Matsuda, Hiroyuki
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Medical Physics Conference
    • /
    • 2002.09a
    • /
    • pp.208-210
    • /
    • 2002
  • In a treatment planning for actual patients with a complex internal structure, we often expect that proton beams, which pass through both a bolus and the heterogeneity in body, will form complex dose distributions. Therefore, the accuracy of the calculated dose distributions has to be verified for such a complex object. Then dose distributions formed by proton beams passing through both the bolus and phantoms simulating a clinical heterogeneity in patients were measured using a silicon semiconductor detector. The calculated results by the range-modulated pencil beam algorithm (RMPBA) produced large errors compared with the measured dose distributions since dose calculation using the RMPBA could not predict accurately the edge-scattering effect both in the bolus and in clinical heterogeneous phantoms. On the other hand, in spite of this troublesome heterogeneity, calculated results by the simplified Monte Carlo (SMC) method reproduced the experimental ones well. It is obvious that the dose-calculations by the SMC method will be more useful for application to the treatment planning for proton therapy.

  • PDF

Comparative evaluation of obesity-related parameters in junior sumo wrestlers and children with obesity

  • Ogawa, Miori;Sagayama, Hiroyuki;Tamai, Shinsuke;Momma, Reiko;Hoshi, Daisuke;Uchizawa, Akiko;Ichikawa, Go;Arisaka, Osamu;Watanabe, Koichi
    • Korean Journal of Exercise Nutrition
    • /
    • v.25 no.3
    • /
    • pp.36-43
    • /
    • 2021
  • [Purpose] Exercise is a key factor in preventing obesity and metabolic syndrome. Sumo wrestlers increase their body size from childhood for athletic advantage; however, the risk of metabolic syndrome in junior sumo wrestlers is undetermined. Preventive measures against pediatric obesity should be initiated during childhood to prevent obesity in adulthood, considering its high global incidence. We comparatively evaluated the risk factors for metabolic syndrome in junior sumo wrestlers and children with obesity. [Methods] We enrolled 70 male children (age 9-17 years [sumo group, n = 14] and 9-14 years [other sports and non-exercise groups, n = 28 each]) and evaluated their anthropometric parameters (height, weight, body mass index z-score, obesity rate, waist circumference, waist to height ratio) and hematological parameters (total, low-density, high-density, and non-high-density lipoprotein-cholesterol; triglycerides; plasma glucose, and glycated hemoglobin levels). [Results] The BMI z-score, obesity rate, waist circumference (p < 0.05, along with the non-exercise group), and systolic blood pressure were significantly higher and the high-density cholesterol level was lower in the sumo group than in the other sports group (p < 0.05). The waist to height ratio was significantly higher in the non-exercise group than in the other sports group (p < 0.05). No significant difference was found in other blood lipid, plasma glucose (significantly lower level than the reference range in the sumo group, p < 0.05), and glycated hemoglobin (within the reference range in all groups) levels among the three groups. [Conclusion] Junior sumo wrestlers had a larger body size and higher blood pressure than children with obesity who exercised regularly. This provides direction for future research into targeted preventive interventions against metabolic syndrome for junior sumo wrestlers with large body size.

Experiment Research of Autonomous Driving Valve for Pulse Detonation Rocket Engine

  • Matsuoka, Ken;Yamaguchi, Hiroyuki;Nemoto, Toyoshi;Yageta, Jun;Kasahara, Jiro;Yajima, Takashi;Kojima, Takayuki
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
    • /
    • 2008.03a
    • /
    • pp.419-426
    • /
    • 2008
  • As pulse detonation engine(PDE) does not need compression mechanisms such as compressors because self-sustained detonation waves are able to compress propellant gases by their incident shock waves, the PDE can have a simple straight-tube structure. In this study, we propose an autonomous driving valve system of the PDE, which fill premixed gases into the PDE tubes at high frequency with high mass flow rate. The proposed valve is composed of only three parts: a piston, a cylinder, and a spring. This valve system can produce intermittent flow at high mass flow rate, and also can keep stable reciprocal motion by using the propellant-gas enthalpy. When the cylinder content product is assumed to be constant, experimental results of the mass flow rate were approximately equal to the calculation model. We confirmed the autonomous driving valve performance by experiments, and concluded that this extremely simple valve with no electrical power and controller can be used as the PDE propellant supply system.

  • PDF

ON THE GALERKIN-WAVELET METHOD FOR HIGHER ORDER DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS

  • Fukuda, Naohiro;Kinoshita, Tamotu;Kubo, Takayuki
    • Bulletin of the Korean Mathematical Society
    • /
    • v.50 no.3
    • /
    • pp.963-982
    • /
    • 2013
  • The Galerkin method has been developed mainly for 2nd order differential equations. To get numerical solutions, there are some choices of Riesz bases for the approximation subspace $V_j{\subset}L^2$. In this paper we shall propose a uniform approach to find suitable Riesz bases for higher order differential equations. Especially for the beam equation (4-th order equation), we also report numerical results.

Nonlinear system control by use of neural networks

  • Zhang, Ping;Sankai, Yoshiyuki;Ohta, Michio
    • 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
    • /
    • 1994.10a
    • /
    • pp.411-415
    • /
    • 1994
  • An adaptive learning control scheme by use of multilayer neural networks for compensating for uncertainties in nonlinear dynamic system is examined. Multilayer neural networks are introduced to map the uncertainties in nonlinear dynamics and perform nonlinear state feedback. Parameters of neural networks are adjusted by conventional back-propagation algorithms modified with the projection operation. Effectiveness of the proposed scheme for tracking control are demonstrated through computer simulations.

  • PDF

Fresnel computer-generated holograms for 3-D display of Real objects

  • Yatagai, Toyohiko;Sando, Yusuke;Itoh, Masahide
    • 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
    • /
    • 2003.07a
    • /
    • pp.437-440
    • /
    • 2003
  • Computer-generated holograms of real existing are synthesized by using a series of projection images of an incoherently illuminated object. The principle of computer tomography is applied to obtain the 3-D Fourier spectrum of the object. A Fresnel hologram is calculated directly from the 3-D Fourier spectrum. Experimental results with simulation are presented and some optical properties of reconstructed images are discussed.

  • PDF