JEMARO intake 4 students defend their thesis at Keio University

And that's a wrap! After having spent two years on the master's programme, the fourth generation of JEMARO students finished their studies with a thesis defense held at Keio University, Japan, on July 30th.

The 25 students, from various backgrounds and nationalities, arrived in Japan in September 2024. During their first semester, they followed Japanese and elective courses at Keio University while starting to work on their research within one of Keio laboratories. Their second semester was dedicated full time to research, co-supervised by a Japanese and European professor.

With different interests and research objectives, each of the 25 students defended their work after a 2-year long Research Track.

The thesis titles of this fourth intake were:

• Deep Active Inference in Physical Human-Robot Interaction: Balancing Exploration and Goal-Directed Behavior
• Force Aware One-Shot Imitation Learning for Bimanual Robots through a Bilateral Teleoperation System
• Multi-Axis Force Plate with Sampling Moiré Method and Mirror-Based Optical System using Single Camera
• Tailoring Reinforcement Learning for Slosh Adaptive Locomotion in Quadrupedal Robots
• Estimation and Reproduction of Multi-Finger Force Using Surface EMG
• Decentralized Multi-Agent Learning with Communication for Enhanced Intersection Safety and Comfort
• Three-Axis Micro-Particle Manipulation via Bilateral-Controlled Optical Tweezers
• Comfort-Aware Robot Navigation for Pedestrian and Observers Using Model Predictive Control
• A Method of Predicting Pain Using Biomechanical Parameters for Patients with Lumbar Spinal Disc Herniation
• Development and Evaluation of Supernumerary Robotic Limb Control Strategies and Sense of Embodiment in a Virtual Reality Environment
• Development of a Tendon-Driven Wearable Motion Copying Exoskeleton for Human Finger Movement
• Haptic Interfaces Using Liquid-to-Gas Phase Change Pouch Actuators
• Learning from Play on a Bi-Manual Robot
• Development of an In-Process Monitoring System for High-Gravity Powder Bed Fusion of Lunar Regolith
• Robust sEMG-based Intention Detection for the Control of a One Degree of Freedom Elbow Exoskeleton using Deep Learning
• Path planning including velocity command generation for Two-Wheeled Robot
• Neural Signal Measurement for Facial Expression Restoration in Facial Paralysis
• Adaptive assist control system for operator upskilling
• Design and Control of the Lift Subsystem of a Two-Wheeled Forklift Robot
• Human-Robot Collaboration: Design of a Control Interface based on Vision and Speech Recognition
• Lightweight LSTM-Based Speech Emotion Recognition Using MFCC Features from TESS and RAVDESS Datasets
• Experimental Analysis on Snap-through Buckling of Elastic Strips for Robot Jumping
• Surgical LLaVA: Multi-Vision Encoder Integration for Surgical Visual Question Answering
• Underwater Vehicle Simulation with CFD-based Surrogate Model of Ocean Currents around Offshore Foundations
• Generating Synthetic Datasets for Multiplane Image Estimation in Single-View View Synthesis