2nd March 2010

Workshop for

Asian and Pacific Universities' Underwater Roboticians

- APuuRobo 2010 -

Advanced Program

Co-Chairs:

Prof. Tamaki Ura (IIS, The University of Tokyo): ura@iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp

Prof. Woo-Jae Seong (Seoul National University): wseong@snu.ac.kr

Prof. Forng-Chen Chiu (National Taiwan University): fcchiu@ntu.edu.tw

Prof. Song K. Choi (University of Hawaii, Manoa): schoi@hawaii.edu

Prof. Lian Lian (Shanghai Jiao Tong University): llian@sjtu.edu.cn

Organizers:

Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo

Seoul National University

National Taiwan University

University of Hawaii, Manoa

Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Collaborated by:

Kyushu Institute of Technology

Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology

Osaka Prefecture University

University of Science and Technology, Korea

National Cheng Kung University

National Sun Yat-sen University

Sponsored by:

Underwater Research Technology Center, Institute of Industrial Science, the University of Tokyo

IEEE/OES Japan Chapter

Workshop Schedule

Date: March 15th (Mon.) 09:00 - : Registration desk open

09:30 - 10:00: Welcome Address

10:00 - 11:00: Keynote talk

11:00 - 17:00: Sessions

17:15 - 20:00: Welcome Party

March 16th (Tue.) 09:00 - : Registration desk open

09:30 - 10:00: Special Lecture

10:00 - 12:00: Sessions

12:00 - 12:15: Closing Address

13:30 - 14:30: Ura Lab. tour and AUVs Demo

Venue: Conference Hall "Haricot", second floor of the conference hall building on 15th March 2010.

Seminar Room An401-402, forth floor of the conference hall building on 16th March 2010.

See campus map of Institute of Industrial Science, University of Tokyo in Komaba Campus below.

http://www.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp/access_e/access_e.html

http://www.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp/access_e/campusmap_e.html

Language: English

Registration:

1) Submit Name, Title, Affiliation, E-mail Address, to the Secretariat not later than 5th of March, 2010 (harumis@iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp).

2) On site registration is available

Registration Fee:

Speaker & University People: Free

IEEE/OES member: Free

Non-University People: 3,000 yen

Registration Desk:

Open from 9:00 Monday 15 March at the Conference Hall "Haricot" at the Convention hall Building of IIS Komaba Campus and open from 9:00 Tuesday 16th March at seminar room An401-402, forth floor of the conference hall building.

Remark:

1) Workshop "TruuRobo", which was annually held from 2001, was re-organized into APuuRobo since 2005.

2) Following 6 Universities from Asia and Pacific rim are joined as APuuRobo friends from 2010.

Kyushu Institute of Technology

Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology

Osaka Prefecture University

University of Science and Technology, Korea

National Cheng Kung University

National Sun Yat-sen University

Concurrent Event:

Underwater Robot Convention 2010 in JAMSTEC will be held on 13th to 14th March 2010.

The program is attached. For attending the event, the registration is requested.

Deadline of the submission is 5th March 2010.

Send participants name, affiliation and address to Dr. H. Kondo of Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology (hkondo@kaiyodai.ac.jp).

http://aquarobo.com/jamstec/index.htm

Secretariat:

Harumi Sugimatsu: harumis@iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp, Tel: +81-3-5452-6487, Fax: +81-3-5452-6488

IIS Campus Map:

Transportation network

Access to Komaba Research campus Campus map

Conference Hall "Haricot" and Seminar rooms are located in the Building number 1 (An block).

Monday March 15, 2010

Morning

09:00 Registration: (Conference Hall "Haricot" at the Convention hall building of IIS Campus)

09:30 Welcome address: Tamaki Ura, Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo

10:00 Keynote Talk:

Sensing, Planning and Prosecution for Ocean Observatories

Arjuna Balasuriya

Department of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

11:00 Session I:

11:00 1) Design and Analysis of Passive Heave Compensator for Tethered ROV system

Kaita Wu, Bin Fu, Baohheng Yao, Ping Ren and Lian Lian

School of Naval Architecture, Ocean and Civic Engineering, shanghai Jiao Tong University

11:30 2) Hydrodynamic Characteristics of a Biomimetic Booster with Two Oscillating Fins in Series

Forng-Chen Chiu, Cheng-Han Chuang and Cheng-Chieh Chang

Department of Engineering Science and Ocean Engineering, National Taiwan University

12:00 Lunch: Lunch box service at the registration desk (Complementary)

Afternoon

13:00 Session II:

13:00 3) Development of Ship Wall Cleaning Robot

Kazuo Ishii

Kyushu Institute of Technology

13:30 4) Development of a small untethered underwater robot for internal inspection of flowing pipes

Takuyoshi Yamada, Blair Thornton, Unnikrishnan P. V., Adrian Bodenmann and Tamaki Ura

Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo

14:00 5) Design of Mobile nodes based TDMA (MTDMA) MAC protocol for underwater acoustic networks (UANets)

A-Ra Cho*, Chang-Ho Yoon**, Jong-Won Park** and Yong-Kon Lim**

* University of Science & Technology /MOERI, ** MOERI

14:30 6) Automated three-dimensional measurement method of in situ fish using two cameras mounted on a deep-tow

Jun Han*, Akira Asada*, Hideyuki Takahashi and Kouichi Sawada

*Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo

** National Research Institute of Fisheries Engineering, Fisheries Research Agency

15:00 Coffee Break:

15:30 Session III

15:30 7) The direct decision method for a SOS blind receiver in underwater acoustic communication field

Kap-Su Kim*, Young-Chul Choi** and Yong-Kon Lim**

* University of Science & Technology /MOERI, ** MOERI

16:00 8) A Unified Autonomous Underwater Vehicle-Manipulator System

Aaron Hanai* and Song K. Choi**

*Marine Autonomous Systems Engineering, Inc., **University of Hawaii College of Engineering

16:30 9) Development of a new underwater positioning system based on sensor networks

Bin Fu

School of Naval Architecture, Ocean and Civic Engineering, shanghai Jiao Tong University

17:15 Welcome Party at the Lounge ( 2nd floor of C-block, IIS main building)

Tuesday March 16, 2010

Morning

09:00 Registration: (Seminar Room An401-402, forth floor of the conference hall building)

09:30 Special Lecture:

Development of the Manned Submersible "Shinkai 6500"

Shinichi Takagawa

Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo

10:00 Session IV

10:00 10) Design of Landing AUVs for detailed seafloor observations

Mehul Sangekar, Blair Thornton, Tamaki Ura and Takeshi Nakatani

Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo

10:30 11) Identification of Sensor Alignment Errors for the Unmanned Underwater Vehicle Navigation

Edward Chen*, Sheng-Wei Huang*, Cyuan-Si Shiu*, Jenhwa Guo ** and Forng-Chen Chiu**

*Taiwan Ocean Research Institute

** Department of Engineering Science and Ocean Engineering, National Taiwan University

11:00 12) Utilizations of AUV and Submarine Cable for Geodetic Survey on the Seafloor

Masashi Mochizuki*, Akira Asada*, Tamaki Ura*, Kenichi Asakawa**, Takashi Yokobiki**,Ryoichi Iwase**,

Tadanori Goto***, Masayuki Fujita****, Mariko Sato****, Zengo Yoshida*, Oscar L. Colombo*****,

Teruki Tanaka******, Hong Zheng******, Kenji Nagahashi*******

*Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo,

**Japan Agency for Marine Earth Science and Technology, ***Kyoto University, ****Japan Coast Buard,

*****NASA, ******SEA, *******MES

11:30 13) Measurement of Environment Features by an Artificial Lateral Line Systems for Biomimetic Underwater Vehicles

Ling-Ji Mu*, Daniel Martinez S. Leandro*, Ming-Yi Jian*, Shih-Hua Huang**,

Jenhwa Guo* and Forng-Chen Chiu*

*Department of Engineering Science and Ocean Engineering, National Taiwan University

**Taiwan Ocean Research Institute

12:00 Closing Address: Forng-Chen Chiu, Department of Engineering Science and Ocean Engineering, National Taiwan University

12:15 Lunch: Lunch box service at the registration desk (Complementary)

Afternoon

13:30 AUVs "TUNA-SAND" and "Tri-Dog1" Demo at Ura Lab.

14:30 Breakup