Researcher's Information

Associate Professor

OKANO, Kunihisa

Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Analysis, design, and control of cyberphysical systems

Cyber-Physical Systems (CPSs) are systems in which physical/ mechanical devices and information processing and communication are closely connected. We study CPSs from a viewpoint of systems and control engineering. As emerging low-cost devices equip with communication functions, it is now easy to collect various information about systems. This enables us to use such information to operate systems that were once isolated from each other. The amount of information collected and transmitted will continue to increase exponentially in the future. Therefore, it is important to establish technologies to select the necessary information from the vast amount of data. What kind of information is essential to accurately grasp the system’s state? What level of accuracy is required to control a system? We are addressing these questions based on systems and control methods.
  • Measuring the gas concentration in a room (left). The right figure shows the importance of measurement spots derived by a mathematical model.