Hayashi Lab@KyuTech

We exhibited at “West Japan Manufacturing Technology Innovation 2025,” held at the West Japan General Exhibition Hall from Wednesday, July 2nd to Friday, July 4th, 2025.

This exhibition is a technology exhibition for the manufacturing industry, aimed at developing sales channels in the Kyushu and Yamaguchi regions.

Many people stopped by our booth, providing a valuable opportunity to directly introduce our research.

This year, we once again participated in the 11th Tomato Robot Competition, held at the Kyushu Institute of Technology’s Wakamatsu Campus from Friday, December 6th to Sunday, December 8th, 2024.

The competition aims to advance agricultural robotics technology, raise interest in the natural environment and robotics technology, and contribute the results of the development process to the agricultural sector.

Our team won the Luck Award and the Field Collaborative Robotics Society Award in the Senior Division.

Graduate students from our laboratory participated in the 8th International Conference on Advanced Mechatronics (ICAM 2024), held at the Kitakyushu International Conference Center from November 6th to 8th, 2024.

Since its first meeting in Tokyo in 1988, ICAM has continued to grow as an international academic conference in the fields of robotics and mechatronics, and is one of the major international conferences hosted by the Robotics and Mechatronics Division (RMD) of the Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers. Many researchers from Japan and abroad gathered at ICAM 2024, engaging in lively discussions and exchanges.

Presentation titles are as follows:

・Tan Chi Jie (Sam)：Autonomous Driving: Semantic Mapping and Costmap in Shore Area

・Md Abul Munjer：Real-Time Tree Pose Map Estimation using Forestry Robot

・Weeraphat Wongbunnak: A Facial Expression Recognition and Robotic Assistance System for Bedridden Elderly Care

・Titan Janthori: Drone-Based Autonomous Navigation and Garbage Detection System on Seashores

・Rut Yatigul: Innovative Approaches to Seashore Cleanup: InstanceSegmentation in Marine Garbage Detection and Tracking for Beach Cleaning Robot

On Saturday, October 5, 2024, we participated in “[From Space to Sea]: Next Generation Technology Workshop Using Mars Exploration Rover Technology”.

At this workshop, we had the opportunity to introduce the beach cleanup robot technology that our laboratory is developing. Other participating groups gave interesting introductions about the current state of marine debris in Fukuoka Prefecture and the advanced technology used in the Mars Exploration Rover.

Afterwards, participants exchanged information with each other and engaged in a lively discussion about what kind of technology could help preserve the marine environment. It was a very fruitful time, with discussions from various perspectives expanding the possibilities for new ideas and collaboration.

We participated in “NEW Environmental Exhibition for Global Warming Prevention” held from May 22 (Wed.) to May 24 (Fri.), 2024.
We introduced our coastal cleaning support robot and coastal survey system using drones and AI.
Many people were interested in our products and we received various comments and inspirations from them.

Graduate students from our laboratory presented their research at the 2024 1st International Conference on Robotics, Engineering, Science, and Technology (RESTCON 2024), held at King Mongkut’s University of Technology North Bangkok (KMUTNB) in Thailand on February 17-18, 2024. Two of the students, Tan Chi Jie and Rut Yatigul, won the Best Presentation Award.

This first international conference was held to commemorate the 15th anniversary of international exchange between our university and KMUTNB, the 65th anniversary of KMUTNB’s founding, and the opening of our university’s newly renovated satellite office.

Following keynote speeches by professors from our university and KMUTNB, a total of 47 research presentations were given across four sessions, with approximately 110 participants.
At the closing ceremony, it was announced that our university will host the next RESTCON in 2026.

The presentation titles are as follows:

・Tan Chi Jie: 3D Semantic Mapping based on RGB-D Camera and LiDAR Sensor in Beach Environment

・Rut Yatigul: Enhancing Indoor Mobile Robot Localization through the Integration of Multi-Sensor Fusion Algorithms

From January 21 (Sun.) to 27 (Sat.), 2024, eight students and two faculty members from King Mongkut’s University of Technology North Bangkok and six international students from Rat Krabang visited Japan. They interacted with our third-year undergraduate students who are participating in the International Collaborative PBL.
They made robots for their own team, visited Dazaifu, experienced tea ceremony, and had various cultural exchanges.

On December 9 and 10, 2023, we participated in the 10th Tomato Robot Competition held at Kyushu Institute of Technology, Wakamatsu Campus.

We participated in the freestyle category and received the Fighting Spirit Award.