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Intelligent Systems Research Institute

CNRS-AIST JRL (Joint Robotics Laboratory), UMI3218/CRT is a joint laboratory established between a French public organization CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique) and AIST and located at Intelligent Systems Research Institute of the AIST at Tsukuba. The researchers from both countries are closely collaborating to pursue the means of increasing robot's functional autonomy, using a humanoid robot as a main platform. The main research subjects include: task and motion planning and control, reactive behavior control, and human-robot cooperation through multimodal interface integrating vision and haptics. We are actively conducting international collaborative research with French CNRS laboratories and also with research institutes within European projects.
The framework is identified as the Unité Mixte Internationale (UMI, International Joint Research Unit) for CNRS and concurrently as a Collaborative Research Team (CRT) for AIST, and defined as UMI/CRT.

Examples of research subjects: contact motion generation, navigation using visual feedback, and human-robot cooperation.

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