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Kanai Satoshi

Faculty of Information Science and Technology Systems Science and Informatics System SynthesisSpecially Appointed Professor

Researcher basic information

■ Degree
  • Doctor of Engineering, Hokkaido University
■ URL
researchmap URLホームページURL■ Various IDs
Researcher number
  • 90194878
ORCID IDJ-Global ID■ Research Keywords and Fields
Research Keyword
  • 3D Laser Scanning of Large-scale Environments
  • 形状モデリング
  • 設計システム
  • デジタルエンジニアリング
  • CAD
  • Geometric Modeling
  • Design System
  • Digital Engineering
  • CAD
Research Field
  • Social Infrastructure (Civil Engineering, Architecture, Disaster Prevention), Safety engineering
  • Social Infrastructure (Civil Engineering, Architecture, Disaster Prevention), Social systems engineering
  • Life Science, Biomaterials
  • Life Science, Biomedical engineering
  • Manufacturing Technology (Mechanical Engineering, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Chemical Engineering), Manufacturing and production engineering
  • Manufacturing Technology (Mechanical Engineering, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Chemical Engineering), Machine elements and tribology
  • Manufacturing Technology (Mechanical Engineering, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Chemical Engineering), Design engineering

Career

■ Career
Career
  • Apr. 2023 - Present
    Hokkaido University, Faculty of Information Science and Technology, システム情報科学部門, Specially-appointed Professor
  • Apr. 2019 - Mar. 2023
    北海道大学 大学院情報科学研究院, システム情報科学部門, 教授, Japan
  • Apr. 2007 - Mar. 2019
    Hokkaido University, 大学院情報科学研究科 システム情報科学専攻, Professor
  • Apr. 2003 - Mar. 2007
    Hokkaido University, Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, Division of Systems Science and Informatics, 助教授
  • 1997 - 2003
    Hokkaido University, Graduate School of Engineering
  • 1995 - 1997
    Hokkaido University, School of Engineering
  • 1989 - 1996
    Tokyo Institute of Technology, School of Engineering, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering and Science
  • 1987 - 1989
    Hokkaido University, School of Engineering
Educational Background
  • 1987, Hokkaido University, 工学研究科, 精密工学専攻, Japan
  • 1987, Hokkaido University, Graduate School, Division of Engineering, Division of Precision Engineering
  • 1984, Hokkaido University, 工学研究科, 精密工学専攻, Japan
  • 1984, Hokkaido University, Graduate School, Division of Engineering, Division of Precision Engineering
  • 1982, Hokkaido University, School of Engineering, 精密工学科, Japan
  • 1982, Hokkaido University, Faculty of Engineering, Department of Precision Engineering
Committee Memberships
  • Oct. 2020 - Present
    18th annual International CAD Conference, Paper Co-Chair, Others
  • Mar. 2020 - Present
    The Japan Society for Precision Engineering, Director, Society
  • Feb. 2019 - Present
    (公社) 精密工学会, 北海道支部 商議員, Society
  • May 2018 - Present
    International Journal of Automation Technology (Fuji Technology Press), Editorial Board, Others
  • Apr. 2017 - Present
    (一社)北海道産学官研究フォーラム, 理事, Others
  • Apr. 2017 - Present
    (公社)日本設計工学会北海道支部, 商議員・支部幹事, Society
  • Jul. 2014 - Present
    (一社)北海道産学官研究フォーラム 産官学CIM・GIS研究会, 副座長, Others
  • Oct. 2013 - Present
    Journal of Computational Design and Engineering (Oxford Academic), Editorial Board, Others
  • Feb. 2013 - Present
    (公社)精密工学会 大規模環境の3次元計測と認識・モデル化技術専門委員会, 委員, Society
  • Apr. 2007 - Present
    International Journal on Interactive Design and Manufacturing (Springer), Executive Scientific Board, Society
  • Nov. 2019 - Jun. 2020
    17th annual International CAD Conference, Paper Co-Chair
  • Jan. 2017 - Dec. 2018
    (独)日本学術振興会 科学研究費委員会, 専門委員, Society
  • Dec. 2014 - Nov. 2016
    (独)日本学術振興会 科学研究費委員会, 専門委員, Society
  • Jun. 2013 - May 2014
    精密工学会, 北海道支部 支部長, Society
  • May 2013 - Dec. 2013
    International Journal of Automation Technology (Fuji Technology Press), Guest editor for a special issue “CAD/CAM/Digital Engineering”, Society
  • Sep. 2011 - Sep. 2013
    International Journal of CAD/CAM (Society of CAD/CAM Engineers), Editor-in-Chief, Society
  • Mar. 2013 - Aug. 2013
    2013 Asian Conference on Design and Digital Engineering, Workshop Co-Chair of Emergent applications of CAD, Others
  • Jun. 2012 - May 2013
    精密工学会, 北海道支部 副支部長, Society
  • Feb. 2012 - Jan. 2013
    精密工学会 大規模環境の3次元計測と認識・モデル化技術専門委員会, 委員長, Society
  • Mar. 2012 - Dec. 2012
    2012 Asian Conference on Design and Digital Engineering, Workshop Co-Chair of Emergent applications of CAD, Others
  • Apr. 2009 - Mar. 2011
    精密工学会, サイバーフィールド構築技術研究分科会 主査, Society
  • Oct. 2009 - Oct. 2010
    IDMME - Virtual Concept 2010, Invited workshop Chair of Product Design for the Future, Others
  • Apr. 2008 - Mar. 2009
    International Journal on Interactive Design and Manufacturing (Springer), Guest editor for a special issue “Advanced prototyping for human-centered design for information appliances”, Others
  • 2008 - 2009
    精密工学会, 評議員, Society
  • 2008
    日本機械学会, 設計工学・システム部門 企画活動活性化委員会 委員, Society
  • 2007
    精密工学会, 2007秋季全国大会実行委員会プログラム委員会幹事, Society
  • 2004 - 2006
    精密工学会, 事業部会 デジタルスタイルデザイン研究分科会 幹事, Society
  • 2005
    日本機械学会, 設計工学・システム部門運営委員, Society
  • 2002 - 2004
    日本機械学会, 生産システム部門運営委員, Society
  • 2004
    精密工学会, 現物融合型エンジニアリング専門委員会 委員, Society
  • 1998 - 2002
    精密工学会, メガポリゴン産学協同研究分科会委員, Society
  • 1997 - 1999
    日本機械学会, FA部門部門委員<99>, Society

Research activity information

■ Awards
  • Jun. 2022, 19th Annual International CAD Conference, CAD'22 Bset Paper Award
    Preliminary Shape Similarity Analysis and Standardization for Pre-Bent Rod Design for Adult Spinal Deformity Correction
    A. Soutome;S. Kanai;H. Date;H. Sudo;T. Kokabu;Y. Abe;H. Moridaira;H. Taneichi
  • Apr. 2020, 文部科学省, 令和2年度科学技術分野の文部科学大臣表彰 科学技術賞(研究部門)
    脊柱変形疾患に対する革新的医療機器の開発と実用化研究
    須藤英毅(北海道大学) 金井理(北海道大学) 千葉晶彦(東北大学)
  • Nov. 2019, ICCBEI 2019 Scientific Committee, Best Paper Award Honorable Mentioned
    Automatic indoor environment modeling from laser-scanned point clouds using graph-based regular arrangement recognition
    Hayato Takahashi;Hiroaki Date;Satoshi Kanai
  • Jun. 2019, 16th Annual International CAD Conference, Best Paper Award
    Free-form Feature Classification for Finite Element Meshing based on Shape Descriptors and Machine Learning
    Ippei Takaishi;Satoshi Kanai;Hiroaki Date;Hideyoshi Takashima
  • Nov. 2018, Japan Society for Precisiton Engineering, Best Paper Award
    3D Asymmetry Analysis of Human's Back Surface for Early Screening of Idiopathic Scoliosis
    Kanai Satoshi;Hideki Sudo;Terufumi Kokabu;Hiroshi Nagaeda;Takayuki Hayashi;Hajime Ohta
  • Jul. 2018, 15th Annual International CAD Conference, Best Paper Award
    Cylinder-based Efficient and Robust Registration and Model Fitting of Laser-scanned Point Clouds for As-built Modeling of Piping Systems
    Ryota Moritani;Satoshi Kanai;Hiroaki Date;Masahiro Watanabe;Takahiro Nanano;Yuta Yamauchi
  • Apr. 2015, 2nd International Conference on Civil and Building Engineering Informatics, Best Paper Award
    Optimal setup of a terrestrial laser scanner for capturing piping objects in plants
    KANAI Satoshi;Shinya Yamanishi;Hiroaki Date
  • Jul. 2014, Japan Society for Precisiton Engineering, Best Paper Award of 15th International Conference on Precision Engineering
    MR-based 3D prototyping for information appliances using random dot markers and fingernail color detection
    Satoshi Kanai;Hiroaki Date;Jiabin Guan
  • Apr. 2014, Digital Human Modeling Symposium 2014, Best Research Award
    Efficient Large-Scale as-Built Environment Modeling Based on 3D Laser-Scanning for Human Walking Simulation
    Tsubasa Maruyama;Satoshi Kanai;Hiroaki Date
  • Feb. 2014, Society of CAD/CAM Engineers, Gaheon Award
    An Efficient Simulation of Skin Contact Deformation for Virtual Ergonomic Assessments of Handheld Products
    Yulai Xie;Satoshi Kanai;Hiroaki Date
  • Mar. 2013, Japan Society for Precision Engineering, JSPE Best Paper Award 2012
    Automatic Recognition of Piping System from Large-scale Terrestrial Laser Scanned Point Cloud
    KAWASHIMA Kazuaki;KANAI Satoshi;DATE Hiroaki
  • Dec. 2012, Asian Conference on Design and Digital Engineering 2012, The Best Paper Award
    Robust and Exhaustive Symmetry Detection from Scanned Meshes
    MIZOGUCHI Tomihiro;KANAI Satoshi;DATE Hiroaki;TANAKA Hiroyuki
  • Mar. 2010, Japan Society for Precision Engineering, JSPE Best Paper Award 2009
    Euclidean Symmetry Detection from Scanned Meshes of Mechanical Objects based on a Combination of ICP and Region Growing Algorithms
    MIZOGUCHI Tomohiro;KANAI Satoshi, Japan
  • 2008, Symposium Co-Organizer 貢献賞
    金井 理
  • 2008, ASME, Symposium Co-Organizer Award
  • May 2007, Japan Society for Design Engineering, The most interesting reading award
    Computer-aided Industrial Design and its Issues
    KANAI Satoshi, Japan
  • 2006, Honor Article賞
  • 2002, 第20回設計シンポジウム,設計シンポジウム賞
    Japan
  • 2000, Best Paper Award - Innovative Applications/Practice
■ Papers
  • Application of Poisson Surface Reconstruction with Envelope Constraints to TLS Point Clouds of Scenes with Complex Objects
    Daiki Koyama; Hiroaki Date; Satoshi Kanai
    CAD'25, U-turn Press LLC, 09 May 2025
    International conference proceedings
  • Low-poly Mesh Generation from Low-quality Point Clouds Based on Projections
    Shinichi Sano; Hiroaki Date; Satoshi Kanai
    CAD'25, U-turn Press LLC, 09 May 2025
    International conference proceedings
  • Deep Learning–based Pose and Shape Estimation of Human Body at Disaster Site Utilizing Synthetic Disaster Scene Generation
    Ken Nishioka; Zechen Zhu; Satoshi Kanai; Hiroaki Date; Atsushi Konno; Soichi Murakami; Toshiaki Shichinohe
    CAD'25, U-turn Press LLC, 09 May 2025
    International conference proceedings
  • Construction of Synthetic Dataset and Model Learning Method for 3D Human Body Pose and Shape Estimation for Disaster Sites Based on Deep Learning
    Nishioka Ken; Zhechen Zhu; Kanai Satoshi; Date Hiroaki; Konno Atsushi; Murakami Soichi; Shichinohe Toshiaki
    The Proceedings of JSME annual Conference on Robotics and Mechatronics (Robomec), 2025, 2P2-L12, The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2025
    Japanese, The authors have constructed a dataset containing images shielded by debris for 3D human shape estimation at disaster sites. In this paper, we discuss how to train and test models using this dataset.
  • 人工呼吸器装着中の気管内吸引が訓練可能なリアルタイムフィードシミュレータ : Simmar+ESTE-SIM
    コリー, 紀代; 五十嵐, 真里; 小水内, 俊介; 井上, 創造; 中村, 美鈴; 金井, 理; 近野, 敦; 二宮, 伸治
    北海道小児保健研究会会誌, 6, 32, 39, 北海道小児保健研究会, Nov. 2024
    Japanese, Scientific journal
  • Ceiling Equipment Extraction from TLS Point Clouds for Reflected Ceiling Plan Creation
    Riho Akiyama; Hiroaki Date; Satoshi Kanai; Kazushige Yasutake
    International Journal of Automation Technology, 05 Sep. 2024
    Scientific journal
  • Occlusion-aware 3D Human Pose Estimation and Mesh Recovery for Remote Support of Disaster Medicine (1st-report): Evaluation of Deep-Learning-Based Human Pose Estimation and Mesh Recovery Performance in High Occlusion Environment
    Kanai Satoshi; Zhu Zhechen; Date Hiroaki; Konno Atsushi; Murakami Soichi; Shichinohe Toshiaki
    Proceedings of JSPE Semestrial Meeting, 2024A, 104, 105, The Japan Society for Precision Engineering, 22 Aug. 2024
    English, This research aims to develop a disaster medical tele-support system that can rapidly provide a telemedicine team with a digital twin reflecting the situation of a victim buried under rubble at a disaster site, such as an earthquake. For this purpose, we are developing a method to fit the size, pose, and joint positions of a standard 3D human mesh model to images of victims in the rubble taken by smartphones and 3D measurement point clouds and to transmit this information to a telemedicine team. In this report, as the first step, we experimentally evaluate the method's effectiveness by extending the training dataset so that the conventional 3D human body pose estimation and mesh restoration method based on deep learning can work stably even under high occlusion conditions such as debris.
  • Personalized Human Body Model Generation, Including Skeleton Utilizing 3D Body Scanning, Mesh Morphing, and Statistical Shape Modeling
    Satoshi Kanai; Ayane Sotome; Yui Endo; Hiroaki Date
    CAD'24, U-turn Press LLC, 09 May 2024
    International conference proceedings
  • Unified and Efficient Approach for Extracting Reflection-Symmetry Regions from 3D CAD Models Containing Free-Form Surfaces
    Ren Nakata; Satoshi Kanai; Hiroaki Date; Hideyoshi Takashima; Tetsufumi Taichi
    CAD'24, U-turn Press LLC, 09 May 2024
    International conference proceedings
  • 人工呼吸器装着中の気管内吸引トレーニングが可能なシミュレータSimmar+ESTE-SIMの開発
    コリー 紀代; 五十嵐 真里; 小水内 俊介; 井上 創造; 中村 美鈴; 金井 理; 近野 敦; 二宮 伸治
    小児保健研究, 83, 講演集, 152, 152, (公社)日本小児保健協会, May 2024
    Japanese
  • Endotracheal Suctioning Training Environment Simulator (ESTE-SIM)
    COLLEY Noriyo; NINOMIYA Shinji; KOMIZUNAI Shunsuke; KONNO Atsushi; INOUE Sozo; NAKAMURA Misuzu; KANAI Satoshi
    Medical Imaging Technology, 42, 2, 62, 68, The Japanese Society of Medical Imaging Technology, 25 Mar. 2024
    Japanese, A nurseʼs accurate, prompt physical assessment ability is connected directly with “quality of care”, such as an appropriate provision of the care method and the patient satisfaction. Lectures, audiovisual materials, simulated patients, and clinical practicum were mainstream skill acquisition methods for nursing students; the conventional devel opment of information science diversified it. Particularly, the development of the AR simulator expecting a high learn ing effect is aimed anatomical and clinical fidelity, and “Authenticity of the simulation education” before clinical prac tice is reobtained consensus. We have been developing a nursing AR simulator called Endotracheal Suctioning Training Environment Simulator (ESTE-SIM). We report our multi-disciplinary research progress, focusing on “devel opment of the respiratory tract model with the sensor”, “feedback mechanism of measurement data”, and “development of the facial expression and cyanosis model”.
  • Development of Notch-Free, Pre-Bent Rod Applicable for Posterior Corrective Surgery of Thoracolumbar/Lumbar Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis.
    Yoko Ishikawa; Satoshi Kanai; Katsuro Ura; Terufumi Kokabu; Katsuhisa Yamada; Yuichiro Abe; Hiroyuki Tachi; Hisataka Suzuki; Takashi Ohnishi; Tsutomu Endo; Daisuke Ukeba; Masahiko Takahata; Norimasa Iwasaki; Hideki Sudo
    Journal of clinical medicine, 12, 17, 04 Sep. 2023, [Peer-reviewed], [International Magazine]
    English, Scientific journal, Adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS), the most common pediatric musculoskeletal disorder, causes a three-dimensional spine deformity. Lenke type 5 AIS is defined as a structural thoracolumbar/lumbar curve with nonstructural thoracic curves. Although a rod curvature will affect clinical outcomes, intraoperative contouring of the straight rod depends on the surgeon's knowledge and experience. This study aimed to determine the optimum rod geometries to provide a pre-bent rod system for posterior spinal surgery in patients with Lenke type 5 AIS. These pre-bent rods will be beneficial for achieving proper postoperative outcomes without rod contouring based on surgeon experience. We investigated 20 rod geometries traced in posterior spinal reconstruction in patients with Lenke type 5 AIS. The differences between the center point clouds in each cluster were evaluated using the iterative closest point (ICP) method with modification. Before the evaluation using the ICP method, the point clouds were divided into four clusters based on the rod length using a hierarchical cluster analysis. Because the differences in the values derived from the ICP method were <5 mm for each length-based cluster, four representative rod shapes were generated from the length-based clusters. We identified four optimized rod shapes that will reduce operation time, leading to a decreased patient and surgeon burden.
  • Footprint Detection of Ceiling Equipment from TLS Point Clouds
    Riho Akiyama; Hiroaki Date; Satoshi Kanai; Kazushige Yasutake
    Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Civil and Building Engineering Informatics, 465, 470, 20 Jul. 2023, [Peer-reviewed]
    International conference proceedings
  • Graph Neural Network-Based Finite Element Feature Recognition from B-rep Model
    Ryosuke Moriya; Satoshi Kanai; Hiroaki Date; Hideyoshi Takashima; Tetsufumi Taichi
    Proceedings of CAD'23, 254, 259, CAD Solutions LLC, 12 Jul. 2023, [Peer-reviewed]
    English, International conference proceedings
  • Graph Neural Network-Based Finite Element Feature Recognition from B-rep Model
    Ryosuke Moriya; Satoshi Kanai; Hiroaki Date; Hideyoshi Takashima; Tetsufumi Taichi
    Computer-Aided Design and Applications, 掲載決定, CAD Solutions LLC, 20 Jun. 2023, [Peer-reviewed]
    English, Scientific journal
  • Proficiency evaluation of simulation education on the entire tracheal suctioning process using a motion capture system and a catheter control sensing device
    Noriyo Colley; Shunsuke Komizunai; Satoshi Kanai; Atsushi Konno; Sozo Inoue; Misuzu Nakamura; Shinji Ninomiya
    Journal of International Nursing Research, 2, 1, e2021, 0016, Japan Society of Nursing Research, 17 Feb. 2023, [Peer-reviewed]
    English, Scientific journal
  • Preliminary Shape Similarity Analysis and Standardization for Pre-Bent Rod Design for Adult Spinal Deformity Correction
    Ayane Soutome; Satoshi Kanai; Hiroaki Date; Terufumi Kokabu; Yuichiro Abe; Hiroshi Moridaira; Hiroshi Taneichi; Hideki Sudo
    Computer-Aided Design and Applications, 20, 5, 797, 813, 18 Jan. 2023, [Peer-reviewed]
    English, Scientific journal
  • Extraction of Vector Data of Region and Line-Type Defects on Road Surface from MMS Point Clouds
    Ryohei Honma; Hiroaki Date; Satoshi Kanai
    Seimitsu Kogaku Kaishi/Journal of the Japan Society for Precision Engineering, 89, 8, 654, 660, The Japan Society for Precision Engineering, 05 Aug. 2023, [Peer-reviewed]
    Japanese, Scientific journal
  • Error ellipsoidal model estimation for TLS point clouds and its application to point cloud registration
    S. Yokomori; H. Date; S. Kanai; Y. Moribe
    Proceedings of the 19th international conference on precision engineering (ICPE2022), C240, 30 Nov. 2022, [Peer-reviewed]
    International conference proceedings
  • Efficient and Precise Approximated Object Model Generation for Optimal View Planning in Structure-from-motion and Multi-view-stereo
    Genki YOSHIDA; Satoshi KANAI; Hiroaki DATE
    Proceedings of 19th International Conference on Precision Engineering (ICPE 2022), C175, 30 Nov. 2022, [Peer-reviewed]
    English, International conference proceedings, 36070419
  • Personally Adapted Human Body Model Generation Based on 3D Body Scanning, Mesh Morphing, and Statistical Shape Model
    A. Sotome; S. Kanai; H. Date; Y. Endo
    Proceedings of the 19th international conference on precision engineering (ICPE2022), P15, 29 Nov. 2022, [Peer-reviewed]
    English, International conference proceedings
  • Feature Recognition from B-rep Models for Finite Element Meshing using Graph Neural Network
    Ryosuke MORIYA; Satoshi KANAI; Hiroaki DATE; Tetsufumi TAICHI; Hideyoshi TAKASHIMA
    Proceedings of 19th International Conference on Precision Engineering (ICPE2022), C282, 29 Nov. 2022, [Peer-reviewed]
    English, International conference proceedings
  • Deep-Learning-Based Three-Dimensional Detection of Individual Wave-Dissipating Blocks from As-Built Point Clouds Measured by UAV Photogrammetry and Multibeam Echo-Sounder
    Yajun Xu; Satoshi Kanai; Hiroaki Date; Tomoaki Sano
    REMOTE SENSING, 14, 21, 5575, Nov. 2022, [Peer-reviewed]
    English, Scientific journal
  • Shape Similarity Analysis and Standardization for Pre-bent Rod Design for Spinal Deformity Correction
    Ayane Soutme; Satoshi Kanai; Hiroaki Date; Terufumi Kokabu; Yuichiro Abe; Hiroshi Moridaira; Hiroshi Taneichi
    CAD'22 Proceedings, 209, 214, CAD Solutions LLC, 08 Jun. 2022, [Peer-reviewed]
    English, International conference proceedings
  • MIXED REALITY VISUALIZATION OF POINT CLOUDS FOR SUPPORTING TERRESTRIAL LASER SCANNING
    K. Ohno; H. Date; S. Kanai
    The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, XLIII-B2-2022, 251, 258, Copernicus GmbH, 30 May 2022, [Peer-reviewed]
    English, International conference proceedings, Abstract. 3D point clouds from terrestrial laser scanners (TLS) are used in a variety of fields and applications. To acquire high-quality point clouds that have enough point density, small scanning errors, and no lack of points in important regions, appropriate scan planning, including determination of scanner positions and scan conditions, is required. Currently, planning is supported by knowledge and experience of skilled workers, and it is difficult to ensure the quality of acquired point clouds. In this study, we propose a system for visualization of point clouds to support the acquisition of high-quality point clouds using TLS. The system allows the user to see and check the quality of scanned TLS point clouds and unscanned regions intuitively by superimposing the point clouds onto the real world using a mixed reality (MR) device. In addition, the system supports finding the next best scanner position for additional laser scans based on predicted scan quality visualization to acquire higher-quality points or fill the unscanned regions.
  • Development of Nursing Skill Proficiency Criteria for Dynamic Projection Mapping Simulator Using Motion Capture System
    Colley Noriyo; Komizunai Shunsuke; Kanai Satoshi; Konno Atsushi; Inoue Sozo; Nakamura Misuzu; Ninomiya Shinji
    高等教育ジャーナル : 高等教育と生涯学習, 29, 61, 67, Institute for the Advancement of Higher Education, Research Division for Higher Education, Mar. 2022
    Japanese
  • Recognition of Free-form Features for Finite Element Meshing using Deep Learning
    Hideyoshi Takashima; Satoshi Kanai
    Computer-Aided Design and Applications, 19, 4, 677, 693, CAD Solutions, LLC, Jul. 2022, [Peer-reviewed], [Last author]
    English, Scientific journal
  • Quantification of Cartilage Surface Degeneration by Curvature Analysis Using 3D Scanning in a Rabbit Model.
    Dawei Liang; Tomohiro Onodera; Masanari Hamasaki; Ryosuke Hishimura; Kentaro Homan; Liang Xu; Yuan Tian; Satoshi Kanai; Norimasa Iwasaki
    Cartilage, 13, 2_suppl, 19476035211059597, 19476035211059597, 20 Nov. 2021, [Peer-reviewed], [International Magazine]
    English, Scientific journal, OBJECTIVE: Accurate analysis to quantify cartilage morphology is critical for evaluating degenerative conditions in osteoarthritis (OA). Three-dimensional (3D) optical scanning provides 3D data for the entire cartilage surface; however, there is no consensus on how to quantify it. Our purpose was to validate a 3D method for evaluating spatiotemporal alterations in degenerative cartilages in a rabbit OA model by analyzing their curvatures at various stages of progression. DESIGN: Twelve rabbits underwent anterior cruciate ligament transection (ACLT) unilaterally and were divided into 4 groups: 4 weeks control, 4 weeks OA, 8 weeks control, and 8 weeks OA. 3D scanning, India ink staining, and histological assessments were performed in all groups. In 3D curvature visualization, the surfaces of the condyles were divided into 8 areas. The standard deviations (SD) of mean curvatures from all vertices of condylar surfaces and subareas were calculated. RESULTS: Regarding the site of OA change, curvature analysis was consistent with India ink scoring. The SD of mean curvature correlated strongly with the India ink Osteoarthritis Research Society International (OARSI) score. In curvature histograms, the curvature distribution in OA was more scattered than in control. Of the 8 areas, significant OA progression in the posterolateral part of the lateral condyle (L-PL) was observed at 4 weeks. The histology result was consistent with the 3D evaluation in terms of representative section. CONCLUSIONS: This study demonstrated that 3D scanning with curvature analysis can quantify the severity of cartilage degeneration objectively. Furthermore, the L-PL was found to be the initial area where OA degeneration occurred in the rabbit ACLT model.
  • 仮想生体反応の呈示・実施者の属性による気管吸引中の視線計測結果と作業負担感への影響
    コリー 紀代; 小水内 俊介; 金井 理; 井上 創造; 近野 敦; 中村 美鈴; 二宮 伸治
    人工呼吸, 38, 2, 162, 168, (一社)日本呼吸療法医学会, Nov. 2021
    Japanese
  • Recognition of Free-form Features for Finite Element Meshing using Deep Learning
    Hideyoshi Takashima; Satoshi Kanai
    Proceedings of CAD’21, 31, 35, Jul. 2021, [Peer-reviewed], [Last author]
    English, International conference proceedings
  • An algorithm for using deep learning convolutional neural networks with three dimensional depth sensor imaging in scoliosis detection.
    Terufumi Kokabu; Satoshi Kanai; Noriaki Kawakami; Koki Uno; Toshiaki Kotani; Teppei Suzuki; Hiroyuki Tachi; Yuichiro Abe; Norimasa Iwasaki; Hideki Sudo
    The spine journal : official journal of the North American Spine Society, 21, 6, 980, 987, Jun. 2021, [Peer-reviewed], [International Magazine]
    English, Scientific journal, BACKGROUND CONTEXT: Timely intervention in growing individuals, such as brace treatment, relies on early detection of adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS). To this end, several screening methods have been implemented. However, these methods have limitations in predicting the Cobb angle. PURPOSE: This study aimed to evaluate the performance of a three-dimensional depth sensor imaging system with a deep learning algorithm, in predicting the Cobb angle in AIS. STUDY DESIGN: Retrospective analysis of prospectively collected, consecutive, nonrandomized series of patients at five scoliosis centers in Japan. PATIENT SAMPLE: One hundred and-sixty human subjects suspected to have AIS were included. OUTCOME MEASURES: Patient demographics, radiographic measurements, and predicted Cobb angle derived from the deep learning algorithm were the outcome measures for this study. METHODS: One hundred and sixty data files were shuffled into five datasets with 32 data files at random (dataset 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5) and five-fold cross validation was performed. The relationships between the actual and predicted Cobb angles were calculated using Pearson's correlation coefficient analyses. The prediction performances of the network models were evaluated using mean absolute error and root mean square error between the actual and predicted Cobb angles. The shuffling into five datasets and five-fold cross validation was conducted ten times. There were no study-specific biases related to conflicts of interest. RESULTS: The correlation between the actual and the mean predicted Cobb angles was 0.91. The mean absolute error and root mean square error were 4.0° and 5.4°, respectively. The accuracy of the mean predicted Cobb angle was 94% for identifying a Cobb angle of ≥10° and 89% for that of ≥20°. CONCLUSIONS: The three-dimensional depth sensor imaging system with its newly innovated convolutional neural network for regression is objective and has significant ability to predict the Cobb angle in children and adolescents. This system is expected to be used for screening scoliosis in clinics or physical examination at schools.
  • 視線移動量と視線移動速度頻度分析による気管内吸引技術の習熟度評価の検討
    横尾 さくら; コリー 紀代; 小水内 俊介; 近野 敦; 金井 理; 二宮 伸治
    医工学治療, 33, Suppl., 169, 169, (NPO)日本医工学治療学会, May 2021
    Japanese
  • Extraction of Road Edges from MMS Point Clouds Using Bend Angle of Scanline
    本間 亮平; 伊達 宏昭; 金井 理
    写真測量とリモートセンシング, 60, 2, 53, 64, 日本写真測量学会, May 2021, [Peer-reviewed], [Last author]
    Japanese, Scientific journal
  • Multi-view stereo reconstruction technique for weakly-textured surfaces
    Kei Akutsu; Satoshi Kanai; Hiroaki Date
    Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Bridge Maintenance, Safety and Management (IABMAS 2020), Apr. 2021, [Peer-reviewed]
    English, International conference proceedings
  • 気管内吸引手技の2D/3D動画視聴による学習効果評価指標の開発
    萬谷 麗奈; コリー 紀代; 小水内 俊介; 近野 敦; 金井 理; 浅賀 忠義; 中村 美鈴; 井上 創造; 萬井 太規; 二宮 伸治
    医工学治療, 33, 1, 21, 29, (NPO)日本医工学治療学会, Mar. 2021, [Peer-reviewed]
    Japanese, Scientific journal
  • Direct Generation of Cartesian Grid for As-built CFD Analysis from Laser-scanned Point Clouds
    Tetsuro Ishikawa; Satoshi Kanai; Hiroaki Date
    Computer-Aided Design and Applications, 18, 6, 1341, 1358, CAD Solutions, LLC, 26 Feb. 2021, [Peer-reviewed], [Corresponding author]
    English, Scientific journal
  • Shape Descriptor-Based Similar Feature Extraction for Finite Element Meshing
    Hideyoshi Takashima; Satoshi Kanai
    Computer-Aided Design and Applications, 18, 5, 1080, 1095, CAD Solutions, LLC, 07 Jan. 2021, [Peer-reviewed], [Last author]
    English, Scientific journal
  • A nursing education simulator that exhibits vital reactions that enables training in endotratracheal suctioning, repositioning, and tube feeding
    KOMIZUNAI Shunsuke; COLLEY Noriyo; NINOMIYA Shinji; KANAI Satoshi; KONNO Atsushi
    The Proceedings of JSME annual Conference on Robotics and Mechatronics (Robomec), 2021, 2A1-E06, The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2021
    Japanese, This paper describes a functional expansion of a nursing education simulator that has been developed focusing on the endotracheal suctioning. Most patients who require endotracheal suctioning also require tube feeding. In addition to sputum aspiration and repositioning, by providing training functions for tube feeding, educational elements of the nursing simulator, such as the relationship between tasks, and the vital reactions to the procedures, are expanded.
  • Study on Real-Time Point Cloud Superimposition on Camera Image to Assist Environmental Three-Dimensional Laser Scanning.
    Kenta Ohno; Hiroaki Date; Satoshi Kanai
    International Journal of Automation Technology, 15, 3, 324, 333, 2021, [Peer-reviewed], [Last author]
    English, Scientific journal
  • Construction of a detachable artificial trachea model for three age groups for use in an endotracheal suctioning training environment simulator.
    Takaaki Yoshimura; Noriyo Colley; Shunsuke Komizunai; Shinji Ninomiya; Satoshi Kanai; Atsushi Konno; Koichi Yasuda; Hiroshi Taguchi; Takayuki Hashimoto; Shinichi Shimizu
    PloS one, 16, 3, e0249010, 2021, [Peer-reviewed], [International Magazine]
    English, Scientific journal
  • Simple Textured Polygon Model Generation from Multiple TLS Point Clouds
    Shinichiro Imai; Hiroaki Date; Satoshi Kanai; Yoshinori Moribe; Masaki Nakamura
    Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Precision Engineering (ICPE2020), Nov. 2020, [Peer-reviewed]
    English, International conference proceedings
  • Precise Denoising of 3D Point Clouds with Awareness of Point-Wise Measuring Quality
    Kohei Tsubooka; Satoshi Kanai; Hiroaki Date; Tatsuo Hariyama; Masahiro Watanabe
    Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Precision Engineering (ICPE2020), Nov. 2020, [Peer-reviewed], [Corresponding author]
    English, International conference proceedings
  • Streamlining Photogrammetry-based 3D Modeling of Construction Sites using a Smartphone, Cloud Service and Best-view Guidance
    Ryota Moritani; Satoshi Kanai; Kei Akutsu; Kiyotaka Suda; Abdalrahman Elshafey; Nao Urushidate; Mitsuru Nishikawa
    Proceedings of the 37th International Symposium on Automation and Robotics in Construction (ISARC), International Association for Automation and Robotics in Construction (IAARC), 14 Oct. 2020, [Peer-reviewed], [Corresponding author]
    English, International conference proceedings
  • EXTRACTION OF ROAD EDGES FROM MLS POINT CLOUDS USING BEND ANGLE OF SCANLINES
    R. Honma; H. Date; S. Kanai
    ISPRS - International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, XLIII-B2-2020, 1091, 1097, Copernicus GmbH, 14 Aug. 2020, [Peer-reviewed]
    English, Scientific journal, Abstract. Efficient road edge extraction from point clouds acquired by Mobile Laser Scanning (MLS) is an important task because the road edge is one of the main elements of high definition maps. In this paper, we present a scanline-based road edge extraction method using a bend angle of scanlines from MLS point clouds. Scanline-based methods have advantages in that computational cost is low, it is easy to extract accurate road edges, and they are independent of driving speed of MLS compared to methods using unorganized points. In contrast, there are some problems with these methods where the extraction accuracy becomes low at curb cuts and intersections. The extraction accuracy becomes low caused by the scanning noise and small occlusion from weeds and fallen leaves. In addition, some parameters should be adjusted according to the mounting angle of the laser scanner on the vehicle. Therefore, we present a scanline-based road edge extraction method which can solve these problems. First, the points of the scanline are projected to a plane in order to reduce the influence of the mounting angle of the laser scanner on the vehicle. Next, the bend angle of each point is calculated by using filtered point clouds which are not vulnerable to small occlusions around the curb such as weeds. Then, points with a local maximum of bend angle and close to trajectories are extracted as seed points. Finally, road edges are generated by tracking based on bend angle of scanlines and smoothness of road edges from the seed points. In the experiments, our proposed methods achieved a completeness of over 95.3%, a correctness of over 95.0%, a quality of over 90.7%, and RMS difference less than 18.7 mm in total.
  • PLAUSIBLE RECONSTRUCTION OF AN APPROXIMATED MESH MODEL FOR NEXT-BEST VIEW PLANNING OF SFM-MVS
    R. Moritani; S. Kanai; H. Date; Y. Niina; R. Honma
    ISPRS - International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, XLIII-B2-2020, 465, 471, Copernicus GmbH, 12 Aug. 2020, [Peer-reviewed]
    English, Scientific journal, Abstract. Structure-from-Motion (SfM) and Multi-View Stereo (MVS) are widely used methods in three dimensional (3D) model reconstruction for an infrastructure maintenance purpose. However, if a set of images is not captured from well-placed positions, the final dense model can contain low-quality regions. Since MVS requires a much longer processing time than SfM as larger amounts of images are provided, it is impossible for surveyors to wait for the SfM–MVS process to complete and evaluate the geometric quality of a final dense model on-site. This challenge results in response inefficiency and the deterioration of dense models in 3D model reconstruction. If the quality of the final dense model can be predicted immediately after SfM, it will be possible to revalidate the images much earlier and to obtain the dense model with better quality than the existing SfM–MVS process. Therefore, we propose a method for reconstructing a more plausible 3D mesh model that accurately approximates the geometry of the final dense model only from sparse point clouds generated from SfM. This approximated mesh model can be generated using Delaunay triangulation for the sparse point clouds and triangle as well as tetrahedron filtering. The approximated model can be used to predict the geometric quality of the final dense model and for an optimization-based view planning. Some experimental results showed that our method is effective in predicting the quality of the final dense model and finding the potentially degraded regions. Moreover, it was confirmed that the average reconstruction errors of the dense model generated by the optimization-based view planning went below tens of millimeters and falls within an acceptable range for an infrastructure maintenance purpose.
  • DETECTION OF INDOOR ATTACHED EQUIPMENT FROM TLS POINT CLOUDS USING PLANAR REGION BOUNDARY
    H. Takahashi; H. Date; S. Kanai; K. Yasutake
    ISPRS - International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, XLIII-B2-2020, 495, 500, Copernicus GmbH, 12 Aug. 2020, [Peer-reviewed]
    English, Scientific journal, Abstract. Laser scanning technology is useful to create accurate three-dimensional models of indoor environments for applications such as maintenance, inspection, renovation, and simulations. In this paper, a detection method of indoor attached equipment such as windows, lightings, and fire alarms, from TLS point clouds, is proposed. In order to make the method robust against to the lack of points of equipment surface, a footprint of the equipment is used for detection, because the entire or a part of the footprint boundary shapes explicitly appear as the boundary of base surfaces, i.e. walls for windows, and ceilings for lightings and fire alarms. In the method, first, base surface regions are extracted from given TLS point clouds of indoor environments. Then, footprint boundary points are detected from the region boundary points. Finally, target equipment is detected by fitting or voting using given target footprint shapes. The features of our method are footprint boundary point extraction considering occlusions, shape fitting with adaptive parameters based on point intervals, and robust shape detection by voting from multiple footprint boundary candidates. The effectiveness of the proposed method is evaluated using TLS point clouds.
  • 吸引の3Dアニメーション視聴中の仮想的なカメラによる視線の軌道と視点の変化の測定(Measurement of eye-trajectory and viewpoint change by a virtual camera during three-dimensional animation of suctioning)
    Colley Noriyo; Taira Yuya; Komizunai Shunsuke; Ninomiya Shinji; Kanai Satoshi; Konno Atsushi; Mani Hiroki; Asaka Tadayoshi; Inoue Sozo; Nakamura Misuzu
    医学教育, 51, Suppl., 78, 78, (一社)日本医学教育学会, Jul. 2020
    English
  • 生体反応を持つシミュレーターでの器官吸引に関する視線追跡を用いた分析(Eye-tracking Analysis of Tracheal Suctioning on a Simulator with Vital Reactions)
    Colley Noriyo; Umesawa Sarina; Ninomiya Shinji; Komizunai Shunsuke; Kanai Satoshi; Konno Atsushi; Mani Hiroki; Asaka Tadayoshi; Inoue Sozo; Nakamura Misuzu
    医学教育, 51, Suppl., 78, 78, (一社)日本医学教育学会, Jul. 2020
    English
  • Shape Descriptor-based Similar Feature Extraction for Finite Element Meshing
    Hideyoshi Takashima; Satoshi Kanai
    CAD'20, CAD Solutions LLC, 25 May 2020, [Peer-reviewed], [Last author]
    English, International conference proceedings
  • Direct Generation of Cartesian Grid for As-built CFD Analysis from Laser Scanned Point Clouds
    Tetsuro Ishikawa; Satoshi Kanai; Hiroaki Date
    CAD'20, CAD Solutions LLC, 25 May 2020, [Peer-reviewed]
    International conference proceedings
  • Free-Form Feature Classification for Finite Element Meshing based on Shape Descriptors and Machine Learning
    Ippei Takashi; Satoshi Kanai; Hiroaki Date; Hideyoshi Takashima
    Computer-Aided Design and Applications, 17, 07 Jan. 2020, [Peer-reviewed]
    Scientific journal
  • Relationship Between Tracheal Suctioning Catheter Motion and Secretion Amount Based on Viscosity
    Noriyo Colley; Shunsuke Komizunai; Atsushi Konno; Satoshi Kanai; Shinji Ninomiya
    SAGE Open Nursing, 6, 237796082096938, 237796082096938, SAGE Publications, Jan. 2020, [Peer-reviewed]
    English, Scientific journal
  • Proficiency evaluation of tracheal suctioning using motion capture system and the NASA-TLX
    長内 真理乃; コリー 紀代; 小水内 俊介; 二宮 伸治; 金井 理; 浅賀 忠義; 中村 美鈴; 井上 創造; 村田 恵理; 萬井 太規; 近野 敦
    日本小児呼吸器学会雑誌, 30, 2, 172, 180, 日本小児呼吸器学会, Jan. 2020, [Peer-reviewed]
    Japanese
  • 気管内吸引手技中の視線計測による看護師と看護学生の習熟度の比較
    竹内 由佳; コリー 紀代; 二宮 伸治; 小水内 俊介; 金井 理; 浅賀 忠義; 中村 美鈴; 井上 創造; 村田 恵理; 萬井 太規; 近野 敦
    医工学治療, 31, 3, 171, 180, (NPO)日本医工学治療学会, Nov. 2019, [Peer-reviewed]
    Japanese
  • Automatic Indoor Environment Modeling from Laser-scanned Point Clouds using Graph-based Regular Arrangement Recognition
    Hayato Takahashi; Hiroaki Date; Satoshi Kanai
    Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Civil and Building Engineering Informatics, 368, 375, Nov. 2019, [Peer-reviewed]
    English, International conference proceedings
  • Segmentation and LOD model generation of buildings from MMS point clouds of urban area
    Takuya Kanayana; Toshihide Mineushiro; Hiroaki Date; Satoshi Kanai
    Journal of the Japan Society of Precision Engineering, 85, 10, 912, 918, Oct. 2019, [Peer-reviewed]
    English, Scientific journal
  • 一人称視点で模範手技の追体験が可能な没入型看護教育システム ESTE-VR
    小水内 俊介; 近野 敦; 金井 理; 浅賀 忠義; 井上 創造; 村田 恵理; 萬井 太規; 高橋 望; 二宮 伸治; コリー 紀代
    日本シミュレーション医療教育学会雑誌, 7, 89, 93, 日本シミュレーション医療教育学会, Aug. 2019
    Japanese
  • 吸引カテーテル操作に応じた生体反応を呈するプロジェクションマッピングシミュレータ ESTE-SIM
    小水内 俊介; コリー 紀代; 近野 敦; 金井 理; 浅賀 忠義; 高橋 望; 二宮 伸治
    日本シミュレーション医療教育学会雑誌, 7, 118, 119, 日本シミュレーション医療教育学会, Aug. 2019
    Japanese
  • 一人称視点で熟練者の身体動作と視線を追体験可能な没入型看護教育システム ESTE-VR
    小水内 俊介; コリー 紀代; 近野 敦; 金井 理; 浅賀 忠義; 井上 創造; 村田 恵理; 萬井 太規; 高橋 望; 二宮 伸治
    日本シミュレーション医療教育学会雑誌, 7, 118, 118, 日本シミュレーション医療教育学会, Aug. 2019
    Japanese
  • ESTE-VR : An immersive nursing education system that provides re-experience of exemplary procedure from first-person's view
    小水内 俊介; 近野 敦; 金井 理; 浅賀 忠義; 井上 創造; 村田 恵理; 萬井 太規; 高橋 望; 二宮 伸治; コリー 紀代
    日本シミュレーション医療教育学会雑誌, 7, 89, 93, 日本シミュレーション医療教育学会, Aug. 2019
    Japanese
  • LS POINT CLOUD REGISTRATION BASED ON ICP ALGORITHM USING POINT QUALITY
    H. Date; E. Wakisaka; Y. Moribe; S. Kanai
    Int. Arch. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci., XLII-2, W13, 963, 968, Jun. 2019, [Peer-reviewed]
    English, International conference proceedings
  • MLS POINT CLOUD SEGMENTATION BASED ON FEATURE POINTS OF SCANLINES
    R. Honma; H. Date; S. Kanai
    Int. Arch. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci., XLII-2, W13, 1007, 1013, Jun. 2019, [Peer-reviewed]
    English, International conference proceedings
  • QUALITY PREDICTION OF DENSE POINTS GENERATED BY STRUCTURE FROM MOTION FOR HIGH-QUALITY AND EFFICIENT AS-IS MODEL RECONSTRUCTION
    R. Moritani; S. Kanai; H. Date; Y. Niina; R. Honma
    nt. Arch. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci., XLII-2, W13, 95, 101, Jun. 2019, [Peer-reviewed]
    English, International conference proceedings
  • Free-form Feature Classification for Finite Element Meshing based on Shape Descriptors and Machine Learning
    Ippei Takaishi; Satoshi Kanai; Hiroaki Date; Hideyoshi Takashima
    Proc. 16th Annual International CAD Conference, 414, 419, Jun. 2019, [Peer-reviewed]
    English, Scientific journal
  • Optimal Laser Scan Planning for As-Built Modeling of Plant Renovations Using Mathematical Programming
    Eisuke Wakisaka; Satoshi Kanai; Hiroaki Date
    Proceedings of 2019 International Symposium on Automation and Robotics in Construction, 91, 98, May 2019, [Peer-reviewed]
    English, International conference proceedings
  • 3D非対称性解析を用いた側弯症検出システムにおける同一被検者に対する再現性
    小甲晃史; 須藤英毅; 金井理; 安倍雄一郎; 岩崎倫政
    Journal of Spine Research, 10, 3, 164, 25 Mar. 2019
    Japanese
  • 4D‐FEAシミュレーションによる術前計画と積層造形技術を含む脊柱変形矯正用カスタムメイドロッドの開発
    須藤英毅; 金井理; 小甲晃史; 青柳健太; 王昊; 安倍雄一郎; 岩崎倫政; 千葉晶彦
    Journal of Spine Research, 10, 3, 434, 25 Mar. 2019
    Japanese
  • Generating facial expressions of pain with projection mapping for the nurse training simulator (1st report): Effect on the tracheal aspiration time for a patient with cerebral palsy
    Fauzi Ahmad Ridwan; Kanai Satoshi; Date Hiroaki; Komizunai Shunsuke; Konno Atsushi; Colley Noriyo; Ninomiya Shinji
    Proceedings of JSPE Semestrial Meeting, 2019S, 860, 861, The Japan Society for Precision Engineering, 01 Mar. 2019
    English, Patients with cerebral palsy suffer from permanent movement disorder, and a nurse usually performs their tracheal aspiration where a tube must be inserted into the patient’s trachea. The tube insertion procedure must be performed quickly and carefully in order for the patient not to experience significant pain, anxiety, and even tracheal bleeding that would cause fear for the patient. To master such skill, many training opportunities should be provided for the novice nurses. Therefore, a training simulator is needed that could mimic the real situation of the procedure to provide an accurate and realistic feedback to the novice nurses. To realize that goal, we have developed a simulator that provides a head mannequin with the pain sensor attached and can project computer-generated patient’s facial expressions onto the mannequin face using projection mapping. The expression can change in conjunction with pain intensity the patient would receive due to the sputum blockage in the trachea and due to the hard contact of the tube tip with the trachea. The effectiveness of the projection mapping in the simulator is evaluated by comparing how fast trained and novice nurses finish the procedure when the facial expression of the pain is simulated or not.
  • Quantitative analysis of regional endocardial geometry dynamics from 4D cardiac CT images: endocardial tracking based on the iterative closest point with an integrated scale estimation.
    Kazuya Kobayashi; Satoru Wakasa; Koji Sato; Satoshi Kanai; Hiroaki Date; Satomi Kimura; Noriko Oyama-Manabe; Yoshiro Matsui
    Physics in medicine and biology, 64, 5, 055009, 055009, 25 Feb. 2019, [Peer-reviewed], [International Magazine]
    English, Scientific journal
  • A Study on Rapid Reverse Engineering of Castings ‐Generation of Beautified Solid Models with Surface Properties Based on the Separation of Casting and Machining Surfaces‐
    浦田昇尚; 伊達宏昭; 金井理; 後藤孝行; 安田星季
    精密工学会誌(Web), 85, 3, 267‐273(J‐STAGE), 2019
    Japanese
  • An Interactive Endotracheal Suctioning Simulator Which Exhibits Vital Reactions: ESTE-SIM.
    Shunsuke Komizunai; Shinji Ninomiya; Atsushi Konno; Satoshi Kanai; Tadayoshi Asaka; Eri Murata; Hiroki Mani; Nozomi Takahashi; Noriyo Colley
    IJAT, 13, 4, 490, 498, 2019, [Peer-reviewed]
    Scientific journal
  • Automated noninvasive detection of idiopathic scoliosis in children and adolescents: A principle validation study.
    Sudo H; Kokabu T; Abe Y; Iwata A; Yamada K; Ito YM; Iwasaki N; Kanai S
    Scientific reports, 8, 1, 17714, 17714, 07 Dec. 2018, [Peer-reviewed], [International Magazine]
    English, Scientific journal
  • Optimal Laser Scan Planning of Terrestrial Laser Scanner for As-built Modeling of HVAC Systems using Integer Programming
    Eisuke Wakisaka; Satoshi Kanai; Hiroaki Date
    International Conference on Precision Engineering (ICPE2018), Nov. 2018, [Peer-reviewed]
    English, International conference proceedings
  • 3D Asymmetry Analysis of Human’s Back Surface for Early Screening of Idiopathic Scoliosis
    Satoshi Kanai; Hideki Sudo; Terufumi Kokabu; Hiroshi Nagaeda; Takayuki Hayashi; Hajime Ohta
    International Conference on Precision Engineering (ICPE2018), D-5-2, Nov. 2018, [Peer-reviewed]
    English, International conference proceedings
  • Cylinder-based Efficient and Robust Registration and Model Fitting of Laser-scanned Point Clouds for As-built Modeling of Piping Systems
    Ryota Moritani; Satoshi Kanai; Hiroaki Date; Masahiro Watanabe; Takahiro Nakano; Yuta Yamauchi
    Computer-Aided Design and Applications, 16, 3, 396, 412, {CAD} Solutions, {LLC}, 29 Sep. 2018, [Peer-reviewed]
    English, Scientific journal
  • Cylinder-based simultaneous registration and model fitting of laser-scanned point clouds for accurate as-built modeling of piping system
    Ryota Moritani; Satoshi Kanai; Hiroaki Date; Masahiro Watanabe; Takahiro Nakano; Yuta Yamauchi
    Computer-Aided Design and Applications, 15, 5, 720, 733, Taylor and Francis Inc., 03 Sep. 2018, [Peer-reviewed]
    English, Scientific journal
  • Optimal Laser Scan Planning of Terrestrial Laser Scanner for As-built Modeling of HVAC Systems
    WAKISAKA Eisuke; KANAI Satoshi; DATE Hiroaki
    Journal of the Japan Society for Precision Engineering, 84, 8, 738, 745, 公益社団法人 精密工学会, Aug. 2018, [Peer-reviewed]
    Japanese, Scientific journal, 3D laser scanners have recently been introduced for efficient as-built modeling in the heating, ventilating and air conditioning (HVAC) industry. Given their highly complex installation, when scanning the piping objects in HVAC systems using a terrestrial laser scanner (TLS), it is difficult to manually determine feasible scanner placement to capture the object areas required for renovation work at high accuracy and quality without occlusion. We propose an algorithm for a model-based optimum scan planning method for a TLS. This method uses a coarse 3D model generated by structure-from-motion, and finds optimal scanner placement that satisfies visibility, scan range, incident angle, and scan quality constraints. In this study, the optimal scanner placement problem is formulated as a 0-1 integer programming problem that is solved using the branch and bound method. In addition, a GPU significantly increases the speed of the precomputation of visibility constraints. In an evaluation, the proposed algorithm outperformed our previously proposed greedy method in terms of the number of scans and scan coverage ratio, and it shows performance equal to the greedy method in terms of modeling quality.</p>
  • Identification of optimized rod shapes to guide anatomical spinal reconstruction for adolescent thoracic idiopathic scoliosis.
    Kokabu T; Kanai S; Abe Y; Iwasaki N; Sudo H
    Journal of orthopaedic research : official publication of the Orthopaedic Research Society, 36, 12, 3219, 3224, Jul. 2018, [Peer-reviewed], [International Magazine]
    English, Scientific journal
  • Automated recognition and 3D CAD modeling of standardized steel bridge members in a laser scan
    Satoshi Kanai; Motoaki Hashikawa; Hiroaki Date
    7th International Conference on Computing in Civil and Building Engineering,, Jun. 2018, [Peer-reviewed]
    English, International conference proceedings
  • Multiple tls point cloud registration based on point projection images
    T. Sumi; H. Date; S. Kanai
    International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences - ISPRS Archives, 42, 2, 1083, 1090, International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, 30 May 2018
    English, International conference proceedings
  • Model-based next-best-view planning of terrestrial laser scanner for HVAC facility renovation
    Eisuke Wakisaka; Satoshi Kanai; Hiroaki Date
    Computer-Aided Design and Applications, 15, 3, 353, 366, Taylor and Francis Inc., 04 May 2018, [Peer-reviewed]
    English, Scientific journal
  • Efficient Registration of Laser-Scanned Point Clouds of Bridges Using Linear Features.
    Hiroaki Date; Takahito Yokoyama; Satoshi Kanai; Yoshiro Hada; Manabu Nakao; Toshiya Sugawara
    IJAT, 12, 3, 328, 338, 01 May 2018, [Peer-reviewed]
  • 3D非対称性解析による革新的脊柱側弯症検診システムの研究開発
    須藤英毅; 小甲晃史; 林隆行; 安倍雄一郎; 岩田玲; 長枝浩; 岩崎倫政; 金井理
    日本整形外科学会雑誌, 92, 3, S691, 14 Mar. 2018
    Japanese
  • 思春期特発性側弯症におけるロッド曲線形状の類似分析手法の開発
    小甲晃史; 小甲晃史; 金井理; 安倍雄一郎; 岩崎倫政; 須藤英毅
    日本整形外科学会雑誌, 92, 2, S207, 07 Mar. 2018
    Japanese
  • Tripping risk evaluation system based on human behavior simulation in laser-scanned 3D as-is environments
    Tsubasa Maruyama; Satoshi Kanai; Hiroaki Date
    Automation in Construction, 85, 193, 208, 01 Jan. 2018, [Peer-reviewed]
    English, Scientific journal
  • Future Possibilities for Endotracheal Suctioning Ontologies Based on the Ocular Movement of Skilled Nurses
    Colley Noriyo; Shimizu Hiromi; Takahashi Nozomi; Komizunai Shunsuke; Konno Atsushi; Kanai Satoshi; Ninomiya Shinji; Otsuka Ken; Asaka Tadayoshi
    Igaku Kyoiku / Medical Education (Japan), 49, 2, 117, 125, Japan Society for Medical Education, 2018
    Japanese,

    Introduction: Due to the advancement of the home-based healthcare, increasing the number of professionals who are able to administer homebased treatments, such as endotracheal suctioning, is an urgent issue.Methods: By measuring the ocular movement of nurses, nursing students and previous researches, an endotracheal suctioning ontology was visualized. It included a multiplex task structure, recognition, and judgment, as well as identifying procedures used during endotracheal suctioning that could contribute to a discussion on educational feasibility.Results: From the hierarchical structure of the constructed endotracheal suctioning ontology, not only the procedural knowledge but also knowledge about medical devices, knowing what options exist when endotracheal suctioning is ineffective, and a wide range of other expertise is needed to perform endotracheal suctioning safely.Discussion: An endotracheal suctioning ontology was created from the ocular movement of nurses. Ontologies are a potential tool for defining minimum requirements and the scope of ability that must be evaluated before clinical practicum.

  • Simulation-Based Evaluation of Ease of Wayfinding Using Digital Human and As-Is Environment Models
    Tsubasa Maruyama; Satoshi Kanai; Hiroaki Date; Mitsunori Tada
    ISPRS INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF GEO-INFORMATION, 6, 9, 267, Sep. 2017, [Peer-reviewed]
    English, Scientific journal
  • Development of a bridge inspection support system using two-wheeled multicopter and 3D modeling technology
    Yoshiro Hada; Manabu Nakao; Moyuru Yamada; Hiroki Kobayashi; Naoyuki Sawasaki; Katsunori Yoko Ji; Satoshi Kanai; Fumiki Tanaka; Hiroaki Date; Sarthak Pathak; Atsushi Yamashita; Manabu Yamada; Toshiya Sugawara
    Journal of Disaster Research, 12, 3, 593, 606, 01 Jun. 2017, [Peer-reviewed]
    English, Scientific journal
  • Efficient conformal tetrahedral finite element mesh generation for moving objects with contact by mesh adaptation
    Hiroki Maehama; Hiroaki Date; Satoshi Kanai
    JOURNAL OF ADVANCED MECHANICAL DESIGN SYSTEMS AND MANUFACTURING, 11, 4, JAMDSM0045, 2017, [Peer-reviewed]
    English, Scientific journal
  • Automatic registration of MLS point clouds and SfM meshes of urban area
    Reiji Yoshimura; Hiroaki Date; Satoshi Kanai; Ryohei Honma; Kazuo Oda; Tatsuya Ikeda
    Geo-Spatial Information Science, 19, 3, 171, 181, 02 Jul. 2016, [Peer-reviewed]
    English, Scientific journal
  • Motion-capture-based walking simulation of digital human adapted to laser-scanned 3D as-is environments for accessibility evaluation
    Tsubasa Maruyama; Satoshi Kanai; Hiroaki Date; Mitsunori Tada
    Journal of Computational Design and Engineering, 3, 3, 250, 265, Society for Computational Design and Engineering, 01 Jul. 2016, [Peer-reviewed]
    English, Scientific journal
  • VISION-BASED WAYFINDING SIMULATION OF DIGITAL HUMAN MODEL IN THREE DIMENSIONAL AS-IS ENVIRONMENT MODELS AND ITS APPLICATION TO ACCESSIBILITY EVALUATION
    Tsubasa Maruyama; Satoshi Kanai; Hiroaki Date
    PROCEEDINGS OF THE ASME INTERNATIONAL DESIGN ENGINEERING TECHNICAL CONFERENCES AND COMPUTERS AND INFORMATION IN ENGINEERING CONFERENCE, 2016, VOL 1A, 2016, [Peer-reviewed]
    English, International conference proceedings
  • Surface extraction based on roughness for rapid reverse engineering of castings
    Akihisa Urata; Hiroaki Date; Satoshi Kanai; Takayuki Gotoh; Seiki Yasuda
    Asian Conference on Design and Digital Engineering 2015 (ACDDE 2015) CD-ROM, Nov. 2015, [Peer-reviewed]
    English, International conference proceedings, 非接触式三次元形状測定器を用いた鋳造品の迅速なリバースエンジニアリング(RE)を目的とし,計測三角形メッシュデータからの鋳肌面と機械加工面の分離する手法を提案し,面粗さ値に基づいて機械加工平面と円筒面の抽出,および鋳肌面上に存在するが機械加工面として誤検出されないように改良した面粗さ推定法と領域形状の評価による手法を提案している.
  • IMPROVEMENT OF 3D MONTE CARLO LOCALIZATION USING A DEPTH CAMERA and TERRESTRIAL LASER SCANNER
    Satoshi Kanai; R. Hatakeyama; H. Date
    International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences - ISPRS Archives, 40, 4, 61, 66, International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, 11 May 2015, [Peer-reviewed]
    English, International conference proceedings
  • IMPROVEMENT OF 3D MONTE CARLO LOCALIZATION USING A DEPTH CAMERA AND TERRESTRIAL LASER SCANNER
    S. Kanai; R. Hatakeyama; H. Date
    Indoor-Outdoor Seamless Modelling, Mapping and Navigation, 44, W5, 61, 66, 2015, [Peer-reviewed]
    English, International conference proceedings
  • MoCap-Based adaptive human-like walking simulation in laser-scanned large-scale as-built environments
    Tsubasa Maruyama; Satoshi Kanai; Hiroaki Date
    Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), 9185, 193, 204, Springer Verlag, 2015, [Peer-reviewed]
    English, International conference proceedings
  • Quality Improvement of Deformed Mesh Models for FEA by Density and Geometry-recovering Phased ODT Smoothing
    Hiroki Maehama; Hiroaki Date; Satoshi Kanai
    Computer-Aided Design and Applications, 11, 6, 622, 631, Taylor and Francis Inc., 01 Jan. 2014, [Peer-reviewed]
    English, Scientific journal
  • A Rendering Method of Laser Scanned Point Clouds of Large Scale Environments by Adaptive Graphic Primitive Selection
    Hiroaki Date; Takashi Maeno; Satoshi Kanai
    Computer-Aided Design and Applications, 11, 6, 685, 693, Taylor and Francis Inc., 01 Jan. 2014, [Peer-reviewed]
    English, Scientific journal
  • As-built modeling of piping system from terrestrial laser-scanned point clouds using normal-based region growing
    Kazuaki Kawashima; Satoshi Kanai; Hiroaki Date
    Journal of Computational Design and Engineering, 1, 1, 13, 26, Society for Computational Design and Engineering, 01 Jan. 2014, [Peer-reviewed], [Invited]
    English, Scientific journal
  • 大規模3次元レーザ計測とデジタルヒューマンモデルを活用したas-built環境内の基本歩行シミュレーション技術の開発
    丸山翼; 金井理; 伊達宏昭
    精密工学会誌, 80, 8, 755, 762, 2014, [Peer-reviewed]
    Japanese, Scientific journal
  • Finding the next-best scanner position for as-built modeling of piping systems
    K. Kawashima; S. Yamanishi; S. Kanai; H. Date
    International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences - ISPRS Archives, 40, 5, 313, 320, International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, 2014, [Peer-reviewed]
    English, International conference proceedings
  • HOMOGRAPHY-BASED LOW-COST GAZE ESTIMATION AND ITS APPLICATION TO THE USABILITY ASSESSMENT OF DIGITAL PROTOTYPES OF INFORMATION APPLIANCES
    Satoshi Kanai; Hiroaki Date
    PROCEEDINGS OF THE ASME INTERNATIONAL DESIGN ENGINEERING TECHNICAL CONFERENCES AND COMPUTERS AND INFORMATION IN ENGINEERING CONFERENCE, 2013, VOL 2B, 2014, [Peer-reviewed]
    English, International conference proceedings
  • As-built modeling of piping system from terrestrial laser-scanned point clouds using normal-based region growing
    Kazuaki Kawashima; Satoshi Kanai; Hiroaki Date
    Journal of Computational Design and Engineering, 1, 1, 13, 26, Society for Computational Design and Engineering, 01 Jan. 2014, [Peer-reviewed]
    English, Scientific journal
  • Feature-Based 3D Process Planning for MEMS Fabrication.
    Satoshi Kanai; Takayuki Shibata; Takahiro Kawashima
    IJAT, 8, 3, 406, 419, Fuji Technology Press, 2014, [Peer-reviewed]
    English
  • Editorial: CAD, CAM, and Digital Engineering.
    Satoshi Kanai; Keiichi Shirase
    IJAT, 8, 3, 303, 2014, [Peer-reviewed]
  • Accurate registration of MMS point clouds of urban areas using trajectory
    TAKAI Shyungo; DATE Hiroaki; KANAI Satoshi; NIINA Y; ODA K; IKEDA T
    ISPRS Ann. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci., II-5/W2, 277, 282, Nov. 2013, [Peer-reviewed]
    English, International conference proceedings
  • Automatic recognition of piping system from laser scanned point clouds using normal-based region growing
    KAWASHIMA Kazuaki; KANAI Satoshi; DATE Hiroaki
    ISPRS Ann. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci., II-5/W2, 121, 126, Nov. 2013, [Peer-reviewed]
    English, International conference proceedings
  • Data Modeling and Geometry Registration for the Integrated Management of the BIM and Laser-scanned Point Clouds
    YAMAOKA Shinya; KANAI Satoshi; DATE Hiroaki
    Proc. International Conference on Civil and Building Engineering Informatics, 55, 63, Nov. 2013, [Peer-reviewed]
    English, International conference proceedings
  • Making a Digital Human Walk Directly in the 3D Laser-scanned Point Clouds of Indoor Environments
    MARUYAMA Tsubasa; KANAI Satoshi; DATE Hiroaki
    Proc. International Conference on Civil and Building Engineering Informatics, 69, 76, Nov. 2013, [Peer-reviewed]
    English, International conference proceedings
  • As-built modeling of piping system from terrestrial laser scanned point clouds using normal-based region-growing
    KAWASHIMA Kazuaki; KANAI Satoshi; DATE Hiroaki
    Proc. 2013 Asian Conference on Design and Digital Engineering, 552, 562, Aug. 2013, [Peer-reviewed]
    English, International conference proceedings
  • Variational hand modeling based on image-based 3D model reconstruction
    XIE Yulai; KANAI Satoshi; DATE Hiroaki
    Proc. 2013 Asian Conference on Design and Digital Engineering, 542, 551, Aug. 2013, [Peer-reviewed]
    English, International conference proceedings
  • Detection and Classification of Pole-like Objects from Mobile Laser Scanning Data of Urban Environments
    YOKOYAMA Hiroki; KANAI Satoshi; DATE Hiroaki; TAKEDA Hiroshi
    International Journal of CAD/CAM, 13, 2, 31, 40, Aug. 2013, [Peer-reviewed], [Invited]
    English, Scientific journal
  • An Efficient Simulation of Skin Contact Deformation for Virtual Ergonomic Assessments of Handheld Products
    XIE Yulai; KANAI Satoshi; DATE Hiroaki
    International Journal of CAD/CAM, 13, 1, 81, 95, Aug. 2013, [Peer-reviewed]
    English, Scientific journal
  • Segmentation of MMS Point Clouds of Urban Area Based on Principal Component Analysis
    DATE Hiroaki; MORI Teppei; YOKOYAMA Hiroki; KANAI Satoshi; TAKEDA Hiroshi
    Proc. 2013 The International Symposium on Mobile Mapping Technology, Paper No.111, Apr. 2013, [Peer-reviewed]
    English, International conference proceedings
  • Decomposing scanned assembly meshes based on periodicity recognition and its application to kinematic simulation modeling
    Tomohiro Mizoguchi; Satoshi Kanai
    COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN, 45, 4, 829, 842, Apr. 2013, [Peer-reviewed], [Invited]
    English, Scientific journal
  • Homography-based low-cost gaze estimation and its application to the usability assessment of digital prototypes of information appliances
    Satoshi Kanai; Hiroaki Date
    Proceedings of the ASME Design Engineering Technical Conference, 2, DETC2013-12931, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2013, [Peer-reviewed]
    English, International conference proceedings
  • Simulating a walk of digital human model directly in massive 3D laser-scanned point cloud of indoor environments
    Tsubasa Maruyama; Satoshi Kanai; Hiroaki Date
    Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), 8026, 2, 366, 375, 2013, [Peer-reviewed]
    English, International conference proceedings
  • Anatomy-based variational modeling of digital hand and its verification
    Yulai Xie; Satoshi Kanai; Hiroaki Date
    Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), 8026, 2, 384, 392, 2013, [Peer-reviewed]
    English, International conference proceedings
  • Robust and exhaustive method for symmetry detection from scanned meshes
    Tomohiro Mizoguchi; Satoshi Kanai; Hiroaki Date; Hiroyuki Tanaka
    Journal of Advanced Mechanical Design, Systems and Manufacturing, 7, 5, 862, 875, 2013, [Peer-reviewed], [Invited]
    English, Scientific journal
  • 段階的ODTスムージングを用いた寸法駆動変形四面体メッシュの品質改善:解析用メッシュのセグメンテーションと任意曲面のメッシュ品質改善
    前濱 宏樹; 伊達 宏昭; 金井 理
    精密工学会学術講演会講演論文集, 2013, 845, 846, 公益社団法人 精密工学会, 2013
    Japanese, 本研究では,CAEによるパラメータサーベイ効率化を目的とした,段階的ODTスムージングに基づく寸法駆動変形四面体メッシュの品質改善手法を提案してきた.本報では,円錐面や球面,トーラス面等のより多くの種類の曲面のメッシュ品質改善を目的として,法線テンソルに基づく初期表面領域抽出と領域間の幾何学的特性を用いた解析メッシュセグメンテーション手法と,局所パラメータ化による任意曲面のメッシュ品質改善手法を提案する.
  • 情報機器プロトタイピングためのRP造形モデルを用いた3次元トラッキング(第2報):爪先色変化検出による入力イベントの認識
    関 佳斌; 金井 理; 伊達 宏昭
    精密工学会学術講演会講演論文集, 2013, 837, 838, 公益社団法人 精密工学会, 2013
    Japanese, ハンドヘルド情報機器のユーザビリティ評価ができるVirtual prototypeの開発を行うため,小型photo-detectorを用いた爪先色変化による入力イベントの認識機能を開発した.製品上のタッチパネルに対するタップやドラッグ操作をRP造型モデル上で認識するため,本研究では,指先接触時に爪先の色変化をphoto-detectorで検出する.さらに,detector裏面のLED光を二次元画像トラッキングすることにより,指先位置の検出を試みた.
  • Variational digital hand modeling using image-based 3D model reconstruction
    Xie Yulai; Kanai Satoshi; Date Hiroaki
    Proceedings of JSPE Semestrial Meeting, 2013, 827, 828, The Japan Society for Precision Engineering, 2013
    English, A method for variational modeling of individual hands from a template hand model is described. The marked individual hand is reconstructed based on image-based multi-view 3D model reconstruction technique. According to hand joint anatomical knowledge, a single axis rotation assumption is proposed for estimating the joint axes and joint centers by the positions of dot markers at the backside of the hand skin in different hand postures. On the other hand, the skin surface of the template hand model is hierarchically partitioned into segments according to the hand surface anatomy by main creases on palmar side. The segments of the template hand model are scaled according to the feature dimensions of the reconstructed individual hand model. Finally, the template hand model scaled in segment-wise way is registered to the reconstructed hand model by a rough alignment process where the gravity center of the point sets on the creases of both models are matched and a fine alignment process where the segments of both models are matched based on ICP algorithm. Compared with previous works, the method is more subject-friendly, inexpensive, and efficient.
  • RANSACによる屋内環境レーザ計測点群のBIM構成要素への効率的なマッチングと差分点抽出
    山岡 晋也; 金井 理; 伊達 宏昭
    精密工学会学術講演会講演論文集, 2013, 641, 642, 公益社団法人 精密工学会, 2013
    Japanese, 本研究では, 急速に普及しているBIMの継続的更新を実現させるため, 建物内をレーザ計測した点群データを用いて変更情報を抽出し, BIMに反映させることを目的とする. 本報では, 変更情報の抽出を可能とするため, RANSACにより計測点群をBIMの構成要素へ自動的に, かつ高速にレジストレーションし, 対応付ける手法を開発した. さらに, BIMへ関連付けられない点を差分点として抽出する手法を提案する.
  • 大規模環境レーザ計測点群からの配管系統の自動認識(第5報):法線ベクトルに基づくRegion-growingによる認識の高精度化
    川島 千明; 金井 理; 伊達 宏昭
    精密工学会学術講演会講演論文集, 2013, 637, 638, 公益社団法人 精密工学会, 2013
    Japanese, 本研究では,生産設備やプラント施設のレーザ計測点群中から,配管系統を自動的に認識抽出することを目的とする.本報では,法線に基づくregion-growingを用いて配管系統に含まれる直進パイプの認識を行った後,認識された直進パイプの軸線と付近の計測点群を用いて接続要素の認識を行うことで各要素の認識率の高精度化を図った.
  • レーザスキャン環境モデル内でのデプスカメラによるモンテカルロ自己位置推定
    畠山 龍; 金井 理; 伊達 宏昭
    精密工学会学術講演会講演論文集, 2013, 633, 634, 公益社団法人 精密工学会, 2013
    Japanese, 近年,BIMの普及や地上設置型の3Dレーザースキャナの進歩から屋内環境の3次元モデルの利用が容易になってきている.将来的には人の屋内ナビゲーションサービスへの利用などが考えられるが,それには3次元の自己位置推定が必要不可欠である.そこで本研究では3Dレーザースキャナにより得られた詳細な3次元モデルを環境情報として利用し,近年注目されている距離センサであるデプスカメラを用いて3次元の自己位置推定を行い,その精度検証を行った.
  • 実環境のレーザ計測点群内における人間行動シミュレーションとそのアクセシビリティ評価への応用(第4報):らせん階段と坂道を含む屋内・屋外環境上での歩行シミュレーション機能の開発
    丸山 翼; 金井 理; 伊達 宏昭
    精密工学会学術講演会講演論文集, 2013, 645, 646, 公益社団法人 精密工学会, 2013
    Japanese, 人間行動シミュレーションのための大規模環境モデルの構築は現在人手で行われており,そのコスト,品質,正確さに問題がある.本研究では,実環境の3次元レーザ計測点群を用いて,人間行動シミュレーションに基づく環境のアクセシビリティ評価のための,現状を正確に反映した大規模環境モデルを,低コストに自動構築する技術の開発を目的とする.本報では,前報で開発した歩行シミュレーション機能を,らせん階段を含む2階建ての屋内環境,および凹凸のある坂道を含む,約2億点からなる屋外環境の大規模計測点群上においても人間のモデルが自律的に歩行可能な機能へと拡張したので報告する.
  • Anatomy-based variational modeling of digital hand and its verification
    Yulai Xie; Satoshi Kanai; Hiroaki Date
    Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), 8026, 2, 384, 392, Springer, 2013, [Peer-reviewed]
    English, International conference proceedings
  • Simulating a walk of digital human model directly in massive 3D laser-scanned point cloud of indoor environments
    Tsubasa Maruyama; Satoshi Kanai; Hiroaki Date
    Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), 8026, 2, 366, 375, Springer, 2013, [Peer-reviewed]
    English, International conference proceedings
  • Adaptive Selection of Rendering Primitives for Point Clouds of Large Scale Environments
    MAENO Takashi; DATE Hiroaki; KANAI Satoshi
    Proceedings of the 2012 Asian Conference on Design and Digital Engineering (ACDDE2012), Paper No.100078, Dec. 2012, [Peer-reviewed]
    English, International conference proceedings
  • Automatic Recognition and Modeling of Piping System from Large-scale Terrestrial Laser Scanned Point Cloud
    KAWASHIMA Kazuaki; KANAI Satoshi; DATE Hiroaki; KIM Tae-wan
    Proceedings of the 2012 Asian Conference on Design and Digital Engineering (ACDDE2012), Paper No.100022, Dec. 2012, [Peer-reviewed]
    English, International conference proceedings
  • Feature-based 3D Process Planning for MEMS Fabrication
    KANAI Satoshi; SHIBATA Takayuki; KAWASHIMA Takahiro
    Proceedings of the 2012 Asian Conference on Design and Digital Engineering (ACDDE2012), Paper No.100093, Dec. 2012, [Peer-reviewed]
    English, International conference proceedings
  • Constructing a deformable human hand model in contact for virtual ergonomic assessment
    XIE Yulai; KANAI Satoshi; DATE Hiroaki
    Proceedings of the 2012 Asian Conference on Design and Digital Engineering (ACDDE2012), Paper No.100047, Dec. 2012, [Peer-reviewed]
    English, International conference proceedings
  • Quality Improvement of Finite Element Mesh Models Modified by Mesh Deformation
    MAEHAMA Hiroki; DATE Hiroaki; KANAI Satoshi
    Proceedings of the 2012 Asian Conference on Design and Digital Engineering (ACDDE2012), Paper No.100064, Dec. 2012, [Peer-reviewed]
    English, International conference proceedings
  • Automatic Recognition of Piping System from Large-scale Terrestrial Laser Scanned Point Cloud
    KAWASHIMA Kazuaki; KANAI Satoshi; DATE Hiroaki
    Journal of the Japan Society for Precision Engineering, 78, 8, 722, 729, The Japan Society for Precision Engineering, Aug. 2012, [Peer-reviewed]
    Japanese, Scientific journal, Recently, changes of plant equipments become more frequent, and the construction of as-built models of the existing plant from laser scan data is expected to make the reconstruction processes more efficient. The purpose of this research is to propose an algorithm which can recognize a piping system from terrestrial laser scan data of plant equipments. The straight portion of pipes, connecting relationship of the piping system can be recognized in this algorithm. Eigenvalue analyses of the point clouds and of the normal vectors enable the recognition. Using only point clouds, the recognition algorithm can be applied to registered point clouds and can be performed in a fully automatic way. The recognition results of real plants have shown the effectiveness of the algorithm.
  • Automatic recognition of a piping system from laser scanned points by eigenvalue analysis
    Kazuaki Kawashima; Satoshi Kanai; Hiroaki Date
    EMERGING TECHNOLOGY IN PRECISION ENGINEERING XIV, 523-524, 932, 938, 2012, [Peer-reviewed]
    English, International conference proceedings
  • Simulation of contact deformation property of Digital Hand skin and its experimental verifications
    Yulai Xie; Satoshi Kanai; Hiroaki Date
    EMERGING TECHNOLOGY IN PRECISION ENGINEERING XIV, 523-524, 339, 344, 2012, [Peer-reviewed]
    English, International conference proceedings
  • Object recognition in terrestrial laser scan data using spin images
    Hiroaki Date; Yusuke Kaneta; Akihiro Hatsukaiwa; Masahiko Onosato; Satoshi Kanai
    Computer-Aided Design and Applications, 9, 2, 187, 197, 2012, [Peer-reviewed]
    English, Scientific journal
  • Appearance preserving simplification of 3D CAD model with large-scale assembly structures
    Satoshi Kanai; Daisuke Iyoda; Yui Endo; Hideki Sakamoto; Naoki Kanatani
    International Journal on Interactive Design and Manufacturing, 6, 3, 139, 154, 2012, [Peer-reviewed], [Invited]
    English, Scientific journal
  • Efficient simulation of human hand skin deformation based on a nonlinear elasticity model for virtual ergonomic assessment
    Xie Yulai; Kanai Satoshi; Date Hiroaki
    Proceedings of JSPE Semestrial Meeting, 2012, 271, 272, The Japan Society for Precision Engineering, 2012
    English, Hand skin deformation is a significant role in the virtual ergonomic assessment of handheld products. In this paper, a nonlinear elasticity model is used to simulate the skin contact deformation, and quasi volume preserving property of skin is considered for more realistic simulation. An efficient contact solving method is developed for simulating the physical contact with product surfaces. The hand surface skin is partitioned anatomically into different regions for being able to specify different physical properties in them and for efficient simulation for the ergonomic assessment of grasp ability. The realistic contact deformation effect was efficiently realized, and was experimentally verified. The verification results show that the proposed skin deformable model is effective, in the acceptable range for virtual ergonomic assessment.
  • 大規模環境レーザ計測点群の効果的表示のための適応的描画プリミティブ選択
    前野 峻; 伊達 宏昭; 金井 理
    精密工学会学術講演会講演論文集, 2012, 301, 302, 公益社団法人 精密工学会, 2012
    Japanese, 大規模環境レーザ計測点群の表示は,計測環境の直感的な理解や概観を得るために必要である.しかし,視点が点群に近づいた際,点のみによる表示では面的な情報がないため,計測環境の目視による理解が困難となる.本研究では大規模環境レーザ計測点群の目視による理解を容易にするために,視点からの距離や点分布状況に応じて描画プリミティブ(点,線分,スプラット,メッシュ)を適応的に選択した点群表示手法について述べる.
  • 実環境のレーザ計測点群内における人間行動シミュレーションとそのアクセシビリティ評価への応用(第1報):計測点群内における基本歩行シミュレーション機能の開発
    丸山 翼; 金井 理; 伊達 宏昭
    精密工学会学術講演会講演論文集, 2012, 303, 304, 公益社団法人 精密工学会, 2012
    Japanese, 近年,大規模環境内における人間行動シミュレーションに関する研究が活発に行われている.しかし,これらのシミュレーション環境の構築は人手で行われており,そのコスト,品質,正確さに問題がある.そこで本研究では,実環境の3次元レーザ計測点群を用いた,現状を正確に反映した低コストな人間行動シミュレーションの実現を目的とする.本報では,屋内環境の計測点群内における人間の歩行シミュレーションについて報告する.
  • 市街地レーザ計測点群からの柱状物体認識と分類:コンテクスト特徴を用いた分類精度改善
    横山 博貴; 伊達 宏昭; 金井 理; 武田 浩志
    精密工学会学術講演会講演論文集, 2012, 281, 282, 公益社団法人 精密工学会, 2012
    Japanese, 本研究では,設備管理の対象として需要が高い電柱や街灯,標識などの柱状物体を,市街地レーザ計測点群から自動的に認識・分類することを目的としている.これまで柱状物体の認識手法,ならびに電柱,街灯,標識への分類手法を提案してきた.本報では,柱状物体のパーツ構造などの形状特徴,ならびに他の柱状物体との相対的な位置関係から求まるコンテクスト特徴に基づいて,柱状物体の分類精度を改善するアルゴリズムを提案する.
  • 段階的ODTスムージングを用いた寸法駆動変形メッシュの品質改善
    前濱 宏樹; 伊達 宏昭; 金井 理
    精密工学会学術講演会講演論文集, 2012, 259, 260, 公益社団法人 精密工学会, 2012
    Japanese, CAEプロセスの効率化を目的とした四面体メッシュの寸法駆動変形手法が提案されている.しかし,変形後の四面体メッシュは要素形状品質が低下し,変形前のメッシュ密度や形状近似精度も失われてしまう.本報ではメッシュ密度や近似精度を考慮した頂点の追加・削除とスムージング手法をシャープエッジから形状表面,形状内部へ段階的に適用することによる,変形後の四面体メッシュの品質改善手法を提案する.
  • 大規模環境レーザ計測点群からの配管系統の自動認識(第3報):パイプ及び接続要素の定義パラメータ抽出
    川島 千明; 金井 理; 伊達 宏昭; 金 泰完
    精密工学会学術講演会講演論文集, 2012, 279, 280, 公益社団法人 精密工学会, 2012
    Japanese, 本研究では,生産設備やプラント施設のレーザ計測点群中から,配管系統を自動的に認識抽出することを目的とする.本報では,グリッド化を用いた前報のアルゴリズムの高速化に加えて,配管系統の軸上の点列への曲線フィッティングによる接続関係の認識と,認識結果に基づくパイプ直進部とエルボ・連結部の3Dモデリングに必要となる定義パラメータ抽出を行ったので報告する.
  • Special Issue on Asian Conference on Design and Digital Engineering 2011 Preface
    Hiromasa Suzuki; Hiroshi Katoh; Hideki Aoyama; Satoshi Kanai; Tetsuro Ogi; Takashi Kanai
    JOURNAL OF ADVANCED MECHANICAL DESIGN SYSTEMS AND MANUFACTURING, 6, 3, 323, 323, 2012, [Peer-reviewed]
    English
  • ESTIMATING EASE OF SINGLE-FINGERED OPERATIONS OF HAND-HELD APPLIANCES WITH DIGITAL HAND
    Satoshi Kanai; Seiya Suzuki
    PROCEEDINGS OF THE ASME INTERNATIONAL DESIGN ENGINEERING TECHNICAL CONFERENCES AND COMPUTERS AND INFORMATION IN ENGINEERING CONFERENCE, 2011, VOL 2, PTS A AND B, 897, 905, 2012, [Peer-reviewed]
    English, International conference proceedings
  • An optimal delay management algorithm from passengers' viewpoints considering the whole railway network
    Satoshi Kanai; Koichi Shiina; Shingo Harada; Norio Tomii
    Journal of Rail Transport Planning and Management, 1, 1, 25, 37, Nov. 2011, [Peer-reviewed]
    English, Scientific journal
  • A data management method for efficient search and rendering of multiple large scale point clouds
    T. Maeno; H. Date; S. Kanai
    International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences - ISPRS Archives, 38, 5, 203, 208, International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, 03 Sep. 2011
    English, International conference proceedings
  • Pole-like objects recognition from mobile laser scanning data using smoothing and Principal Component Analysis
    H. Yokoyama; H. Date; S. Kanai; H. Takeda
    International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences - ISPRS Archives, 38, 5, 115, 120, International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, 03 Sep. 2011
    English, International conference proceedings
  • Automatic recognition of a piping system from large-scale terrestrial laser scan data
    K. Kawashima; S. Kanai; H. Date
    International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences - ISPRS Archives, 38, 5, 283, 288, International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, 03 Sep. 2011
    English, International conference proceedings
  • Constructing a Finger Biomechanical Model for Virtual Ergonomic Assessment in Digital Hand
    SHIMIZU Yasutomo; KANAI Satoshi; DATE Hiroaki
    Proceedings of Asian Conference on Design and Digital Engineering 2011, 1, 543, 547, Aug. 2011, [Peer-reviewed]
    English, International conference proceedings
  • 3D Digital Prototyping of Information Appliances based on Mixed Reality with Markerless Tracking
    KANAI Satoshi; DATE Hiroaki; UCHIYAMA Keita
    Proceedings of Asian Conference on Design and Digital Engineering 2011, 1, 325, 328, Aug. 2011
    English, International conference proceedings
  • Parts identification and motion estimation on CT scanned assembly meshes
    Tomohiro Mizoguchi; Yoshikazu Kobayashi; Kenji Shirai; Satoshi Kanai
    ACM SIGGRAPH 2011 Posters, SIGGRAPH'11, Article No.64, 2011, [Peer-reviewed]
    English, International conference proceedings
  • Estimating ease of single-fingered operations of hand-held appliances with digital hand
    Satoshi Kanai; Seiya Suzuki
    Proceedings of the ASME Design Engineering Technical Conference, 2, 897, 905, 2011, [Peer-reviewed]
    English, International conference proceedings
  • POLE-LIKE OBJECTS RECOGNITION FROM MOBILE LASER SCANNING DATA USING SMOOTHING AND PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS
    H. Yokoyama; H. Date; S. Kanai; H. Takeda
    ISPRS WORKSHOP LASER SCANNING 2011, 38-5, W12, 115, 120, 2011, [Peer-reviewed]
    English, International conference proceedings
  • AUTOMATIC RECOGNITION OF A PIPING SYSTEM FROM LARGE-SCALE TERRESTRIAL LASER SCAN DATA
    K. Kawashima; S. Kanai; H. Date
    ISPRS WORKSHOP LASER SCANNING 2011, 38-5, W12, 283, 288, 2011, [Peer-reviewed]
    English, International conference proceedings
  • A DATA MANAGEMENT METHOD FOR EFFICIENT SEARCH AND RENDERING OF MULTIPLE LARGE SCALE POINT CLOUDS
    T. Maeno; H. Date; S. Kanai
    ISPRS WORKSHOP LASER SCANNING 2011, 38-5, W12, 203, 208, 2011, [Peer-reviewed]
    English, International conference proceedings
  • Pole-like Objects Recognition from Mobile Laser Scanning Data in Urban Environment
    Yokoyama Hiroki; Date Hiroaki; Kanai Satoshi; Takeda Hiroshi
    Proceedings of JSPE Semestrial Meeting, 2011, 143, 144, The Japan Society for Precision Engineering, 2011
    モバイルレーザスキャニング(MLS)の普及により,市街地レーザ計測点群を用いた道路やその周辺設備の管理への需要が増加している.特に,電柱や街灯,標識などの柱状物体は,管理対象の設備として需要が高い.そこで本研究では,市街地レーザ計測点群に対して細線化と主成分分析,並びに柱状物体度評価指標を用いて,様々な太さや傾きの柱状物体を自動的に認識できるアルゴリズムを開発し,その認識性能を評価したので報告する.
  • A study of object recognition using geometric models from 3D laser scan data of environments:a method of object recognition for point clouds using spin images
    Kaneta Yusuke; Date Hiroaki; Kanai Satoshi
    Proceedings of JSPE Semestrial Meeting, 2011, 127, 128, The Japan Society for Precision Engineering, 2011
    本研究では,環境内における認識したい対象の存在有無・位置姿勢を,対象の形状モデルを用いて環境のレーザ計測データ(三角形メッシュ)から認識する手法を提案してきた.本報告では,レジストレーションされた計測点群への対象認識の柔軟な適用,ならびに大規模計測データでの対象認識実現のためのデータ量を削減した,三角形メッシュを用いない,レーザ計測点群に対する対象認識手法を提案する.
  • A Data Management Method for Efficient Search and Rendering of Multiple Large Scale Point Clouds
    Maeno Takashi; Date Hiroaki; Kanai Satoshi
    Proceedings of JSPE Semestrial Meeting, 2011, 117, 118, The Japan Society for Precision Engineering, 2011
    近年,地上設置型,車載型,航空機搭載型レーザスキャナによる建物や市街地などの環境の計測を容易に行うことが可能になってきている.本研究ではこれらの計測で得られた大規模複数点群を様々なアプリケーションで効率的,包括的に取り扱うことができるデータ管理手法を提案する.八分木構造を元にした点群データ構造を規定し,大規模複数点群の効率的な検索やLOD表示とそれを可能とするデータ管理手法について述べる.
  • Automatically Recognition of a Piping System from Laser Scan Data of Large-Scale Environments:Automatically extraction a piping system and recognition connection relationship
    Kawashima Kazuaki; Kanai Satoshi; Date Hiroaki
    Proceedings of JSPE Semestrial Meeting, 2011, 123, 124, The Japan Society for Precision Engineering, 2011
    近年,レーザ計測点群を利用した,既存プラント設備の実態が反映されたas-built型モデル作成の需要が高まっている.特に,配管系統はプラント設備のモデル化で必須の対象となる.本報では,共分散行列を用いた計測点群全体からの配管系統の計測点群の自動抽出,および,認識した各パイプの径,軸位置・方向に基づくエルボやTジャンクションといった接続要素とパイプ間の接続関係の自動認識を行ったので報告する.
  • Region-based Automatic Classification of Airborne LiDAR Data
    Ui Koutarou; Kanai Satoshi; Date Hiroaki; Yokoo Yasuhiro; Asada Norichika; Takeda Hiroshi
    Proceedings of JSPE Semestrial Meeting, 2011, 129, 130, The Japan Society for Precision Engineering, 2011
    本研究では3次元都市モデリングおよび2次元マッピングのための,航空機LiDARデータからの建物領域の認識を目的としている.本報では,地表面および建物領域認識の高精度化のための,モルフォロジーフィルターを用いた地表面分類と、非地面点領域の境界線形状に基づく建物領域の判定手法を提案し,その分類精度を検証する.
  • Research on identifying the gaze object on 3D digital prototyping of information equipment with Eye-Tracking
    Nagafuchi Tatsuya; Kanai Satoshi; Date Hiroaki
    Proceedings of JSPE Semestrial Meeting, 2011, 275, 276, The Japan Society for Precision Engineering, 2011
    近年,情報機器開発に際しユーザビリティを考慮したUI設計が求められている.本研究では,これまでユーザーの注視点位置を推定するEye-Trackingシステムの開発と精度の向上を行なってきた.これを用いてUI可動型ディジタルプロトタイプ操作時にユーザーが注視しているUI上の注視オブジェクトの特定を行うことで,誤操作時のUI上の箇所や誤操作原因が推定可能となる.そこで本報告では,Eye-Trackingを用いたディジタルプロトタイプ上注視オブジェクトの特定について報告する.
  • Implementing Deformable Property of Skin in Contact of Digital Hand
    Xie Yulai; Kanai Satoshi; Date Hiroaki
    Proceedings of JSPE Semestrial Meeting, 2011, 273, 274, The Japan Society for Precision Engineering, 2011
    English, The virtual ergonomic assessment based on Digital Hand which estimates grasp posture and evaluates the quality of grasp is valuable for hand-held product design, because it can save the cost of test subjects, time, fabricating physical mockups, and it also enables objective evaluation. In this paper, we propose the method to implement deformable property caused by a contact between Digital Hand and the product surface by modeling the fingers as ″quasi-rigid″ objects, by constructing a physical model based on Boussinesq formula which approximates skin contact deformation mechanism, by detecting collision between Digital Hand and a product surface and enlarging the collision area, and then by finally solving Linear Complementarity Problem to resolve the contact and to produce the visible skin surface deformation. The plausible skin deformation could be obtained, because the method preserved the volume of Digital Hand before and after the skin deformation. In addition, utilizing the locality property of the deformation, the method can be easily used by the existing Digital Hand model and do not affect its original scheme of skin deformation caused by bending the finger.
  • Parts identification and motion estimation on CT scanned assembly meshes
    Tomohiro Mizoguchi; Yoshikazu Kobayashi; Kenji Shirai; Satoshi Kanai
    ACM SIGGRAPH 2011 Posters, SIGGRAPH'11, 64, ACM, 2011, [Peer-reviewed]
    English, International conference proceedings
  • XAML-Based Usability Assessment for Prototyping Information Appliances with Touch Sensitive Interfaces
    KANAI Satoshi
    Research in Interactive Design (CD-ROM), 3, PRIDE-P189, Oct. 2010, [Peer-reviewed]
    English, International conference proceedings
  • Shape Interpolation of Product Housings for Ergonomic Assessment using Digital Hand
    ENDO Yui; MIYATA Natsuki; KOUCH Makiko; MOCHIMARU Masaaki; KANAI Satoshi
    Research in Interactive Design (CD-ROM), Springer, 3, PRIDE-P159, Oct. 2010, [Peer-reviewed]
    English, International conference proceedings
  • Appearance Preserving Simplification of Large Scale Assembly Models by Invisible Part and Form Feature Removal
    SAKAMOTO Hideki; KANATANI Naoki
    Research in Interactive Design (CD-ROM), Springer, 3, VC-P144, Oct. 2010, [Peer-reviewed]
    English, International conference proceedings
  • Constructing MRI-based 3D Precise Human Hand Models for Product Ergonomic Assessments
    SHIMIZU Yasutomo; KAWAGUCHI Keisuke; KANAI Satoshi
    Proceedings of 2010 Asian Conference on Design and Digital Engineering, 837, 844, Aug. 2010, [Peer-reviewed]
    English, International conference proceedings
  • Recognition of Revolved Features using Dynamic Programming and Constraint Fitting for Reverse Engineering
    Kazuaki Kawashima; Satoshi Kanai
    Proceedings of 2010 Asian Conference on Design and Digital Engineering, 612, 619, Aug. 2010, [Peer-reviewed]
    English, International conference proceedings
  • Physically-based grasp posture generation for virtual ergonomic assessment using digital hand
    Yui Endo; Natsuki Miyata; Makiko Kouchi; Masaaki Mochimaru; Satoshi Kanai
    Advances in Applied Digital Human Modeling, 166, 175, CRC Press, 01 Jan. 2010
    English, In book
  • Approximative generation of springback compensation surface in stamping die design:generation of correspondence between reference geometry mesh and mesh the measured from real form product
    Suzuki Kunihiro; Murakami Yukimi; Kanai Satoshi
    Proceedings of JSPE Semestrial Meeting, 2010, 95, 96, The Japan Society for Precision Engineering, 2010
    Recently, high strength steel sheets are rapidly introduced to automotive parts and amount of springback of these parts increases extremely. It is required to prevent the amount. However, mesh based on the measured from real formed sheets after springback does not have the same topology as the one of reference geometry mesh. However, different topology disables the user to use the proposed compensation estimation method. In this study, we propose a method where the correspondences can be found between the reference mesh and the measured mesh which has the different topology from the reference one, and which has the deformation relationship with it, under the preserving property.
  • Decomposing Scanned Assembly Meshes Based on Periodicity Recognition and Its Application to Kinematic Simulation Modeling
    Tomohiro Mizoguchi; Satoshi Kanai
    ADVANCES IN GEOMETRIC MODELING AND PROCESSING, PROCEEDINGS, 6130, 137, +, 2010, [Peer-reviewed]
    English, International conference proceedings
  • Process Planning System for an MEMS Device using a 3D Geometric Model
    Tomonao KITAHARA; Satoshi KANAI; Takayuki SHIBATA; Takahiro KAWASHIMA
    Proceedings of Asian Symposium for Precision Engineering and Nanotechnology 2009 (ASPEN 2009), 2E11, Nov. 2009, [Peer-reviewed]
    English, International conference proceedings
  • 3D Shape Retrieval considering Assembly Structure
    KANAI Satoshi; MIURA Takashi
    Proceedings of Asian Symposium for Precision Engineering and Nanotechnology 2009 (ASPEN 2009), 1A1-15, Nov. 2009, [Peer-reviewed]
    English, International conference proceedings
  • Optimization-Based Grasp Posture Generation Method of Digital Hand for Virtual Ergonomic Assessment
    ENDO Yui; KANAI Satoshi; KISINAMI Takeshi; MIYATA Natsuki; MOCHIMARU Masaaki
    SAE International Journal of Passenger Cars -Electronic and Electrical Systems, 1, 1, 590, 598, Apr. 2009, [Peer-reviewed], [Invited]
    English, Scientific journal
  • Euclidean Symmetry Detection from Scanned Meshes of Mechanical Objects based on a Combination of ICP and Region Growing Algorithms
    MIZOGUCHI Tomohiro; KANAI Satoshi
    Journal of the Japan Society for Precision Engineering, 75, 4, 554, 560, The Japan Society for Precision Engineering, Apr. 2009, [Peer-reviewed]
    Japanese, Scientific journal, Recently scanned meshes from mechanical objects can be easily acquired using high-energy industrial X-ray CT scanning technologies, and these meshes are widely used in various fields of product developments. Mechanical objects often exhibit symmetries for their functionality. They are originally defined by creating a copy of the solid and then by placing it with a certain transformation including an arbitrary set of translations, rotations, and reflections. Therefore it is desired to detect such symmetries from the scanned meshes for their effective use in mesh applications, such as reconstruction of CAD models with compact data representations or CAE mesh enhancement using the symmetries. In this paper, we propose a method that can detects multiple Euclidean symmetries from scanned meshes of mechanical objects based on a combination of ICP and region growing algorithms. We define Euclidean symmetries detection as to detect both pairs of regions that match under certain transformations and their transformations including arbitrary sets of translations, rotations, and reflections. We also propose a method that derives all possible sequences for reconstructing an entire model from the original mesh using planar-reflective symmetries among all the detected symmetries, and represents them in an AND/OR graph in order to compactly represent the mesh. Our proposed method contains several advantages. It can robustly detect symmetries from noisy scanned meshes that include many planar regions. Our method also can detect both global and local Euclidean symmetries from meshes. Moreover it can detect maximally large pairs of regions under user specified tolerances. We demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method from various experiments using X-ray CT scanned meshes of mechanical objects.
  • Flexible Control of Multimaterial Tetrahedral Mesh Properties by Using Multiresolution Techniques
    Hiroaki Date; So Noguchi; Masahiko Onosato; Satoshi Kanai
    IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON MAGNETICS, 45, 3, 1352, 1355, Mar. 2009, [Peer-reviewed]
    English, Scientific journal
  • APPLYING USER INTERFACE-OPERABLE 3D DIGITAL PROTOTYPES TO HUMAN-CENTERED DESIGN OF INFORMATION APPLIANCES
    Satoshi Kanai; Taiga Higuchi; Yukiaki Kikuta
    DETC 2008: PROCEEDINGS OF THE ASME INTERNATIONAL DESIGN ENGINEERING TECHNICAL CONFERENCES AND COMPUTERS AND INFORMATIONAL IN ENGINEERING CONFERENCE, VOL 3, PTS A AND B, 867, 876, 2009, [Peer-reviewed]
    English, International conference proceedings
  • 3D digital prototyping and usability enhancement of information appliances based on UsiXML
    Satoshi Kanai; Taiga Higuchi; Yukiaki Kikuta
    International Journal on Interactive Design and Manufacturing, 3, 3, 201, 222, 2009, [Peer-reviewed]
    English, Scientific journal
  • Database-Driven Grasp Synthesis and Ergonomic Assessment for Handheld Product Design
    Keisuke Kawaguchi; Yui Endo; Satoshi Kanai
    DIGITAL HUMAN MODELING, PROCEEDINGS, 5620, 642, 652, 2009, [Peer-reviewed]
    English, International conference proceedings
  • A Development of an Ergonomic Assessment System by Integrating a Digital Hand with a Product Model (2nd Report)
    Yui ENDO; Satoshi KANAI; Natsuki MIYATA; Makiko KOUCHI; Masaaki MOCHIMARU
    Journal of the Japan Society for Precision Engineering, 75, 4, 548, 553, Japan Society for Precision Engineering, 2009, [Peer-reviewed]
    Japanese, Scientific journal
  • APPLYING USER INTERFACE-OPERABLE 3D DIGITAL PROTOTYPES TO HUMAN-CENTERED DESIGN OF INFORMATION APPLIANCES
    Satoshi Kanai; Taiga Higuchi; Yukiaki Kikuta
    DETC 2008: PROCEEDINGS OF THE ASME INTERNATIONAL DESIGN ENGINEERING TECHNICAL CONFERENCES AND COMPUTERS AND INFORMATIONAL IN ENGINEERING CONFERENCE, VOL 3, PTS A AND B, 867, 876, 2009, [Peer-reviewed]
    English, International conference proceedings
  • AN OPTIMIZATION-BASED APPROACH FOR GRASP POSTURE GENERATION OF DIGITAL HAND
    Yui Endo; Satoshi Kanai; Natsuki Miyata; Makiko Kouchi; Masaaki Mochimaru; Jun Konno; Michiyo Ogasawara; Marie Shimokawa
    DETC 2008: PROCEEDINGS OF THE ASME INTERNATIONAL DESIGN ENGINEERING TECHNICAL CONFERENCES AND COMPUTERS AND INFORMATIONAL IN ENGINEERING CONFERENCE, VOL 3, PTS A AND B, 877, 885, 2009, [Peer-reviewed]
    English, International conference proceedings
  • EUCLIDEAN SYMMETRY DETECTION FROM SCANNED MESHES BASED ON A COMBINATION OF ICP AND REGION GROWING ALGORITHMS
    Tomohiro Mizoguchi; Satoshi Kanai
    DETC 2008: PROCEEDINGS OF THE ASME INTERNATIONAL DESIGN ENGINEERING TECHNICAL CONFERENCES AND COMPUTERS AND INFORMATION IN ENGINEERING CONFERENCE, VOL 1, PTS A AND B, 683, 691, 2009, [Peer-reviewed]
    English, International conference proceedings
  • Recognizing Periodicities on 3D Scanned Meshes Based on Indexed-ICP Algorithm
    Research in Interactive Design (CD-ROM), 3, IDMME_P35, 2008
  • XAML-based 2D/3D Prototyping System for Rapid Development of Information Appliances
    Research in Interactive Design (CD-ROM), 3, APIAHD_P127, 2008
  • Plausible Digital Hand Grasp Synthesis considering the Grasp Constratins of Information Appliances
    Research in Interactive Design (CD-ROM), 3, Virtual Concept_P34, 2008
  • Euclidean symmetry detection from scanned meshes based on a conbination of ICP and region growing algorithms
    Tomohiro Mizoguchi; Satoshi Kanai
    Proceedings of the ASME Design Engineering Technical Conference, 1, 683, 691, 2008
    English, International conference proceedings
  • Content-based 3D Mesh Model Retrieval from Hand-written Sketch
    International Journal on Interactive Design and Manufacturing, 2, 2, 87, 98, 2008
  • Object-oriented Design Patterns for Parallel Discrete Event Simulation of Distributed Control Systems
    TOMURA Toyoaki; KANAI Satoshi
    Journal of the Japan Society for Precision Engineering, 74, 3, 306, 312, The Japan Society for Precision Engineering, 2008
    Japanese, Distributed control systems(DCS) consist of many sensors/actuators and a network interconnecting them, and are being introduced in various automation areas. For assuring the control performance of a DCS under heavy communication traffic, the precise simulation of the DCS is strongly needed. For this purpose, we propose a uniform, efficient and systematic method based on object-oriented design patterns for modeling and simulating DCSs. In this paper, two design patterns are newly proposed; Time-Warp pattern and Protocol pattern. Time-Warp pattern describes classes and interaction for executing the DCS simulation by communicating events having send/receive times, using Time Warp mechanism. Protocol pattern describes classes and interaction for uniformly structuring various communication protocol models used in DCSs, which are composed of the interactions among several layers and the state transition of each layer in a communication protocol. Finally, the effectiveness of the DCS simulator which is developed using these patterns was proved by comparing simulation results with the experiment results using the real DCS consisting of four CAN-based control nodes.
  • Efficient Mesh Segmentation based on Region Growing and Merging
    MIZOGUCHI Tomohiro; DATE Hiroaki; KANAI Satoshi
    Journal of The Japan Society for Precision Engineering, 74, 7, 752, 759, The Japan Society for Precision Engineering, 2008
    Japanese, To effectively use scanned meshes obtained by 3D laser scanner or X-ray CT scanning systems in engineering applications, such as inspection and CAD model reconstruction, we need to segment meshes and extract desirable regions and their approximating surfaces. Surfaces of engineering objects are commonly represented by a set of analytic surfaces, such as planes, cylinders, spheres, cones. Therefore, the mesh surface of them needs to be approximated by a set of analytic surfaces. In this paper we propose an efficient mesh segmentation algorithm based on region growing and region merging. Our algorithm first robustly and accurately estimates mesh principal curvatures using the two-pass estimation method. Then it fast extracts regions and their approximating analytic surfaces based on region growing even if regions are smoothly blended. Finally it efficiently merges initial set of regions of large and complex scanned meshes under the user specified tolerances using region merging. We demonstrate the efficiency and accuracy of our algorithm with scanned meshes acquired from real engineering objects by X-ray CT scanning systems.
  • Object-oriented Design Patterns for Parallel Discrete Event Simulation of Distributed Control Systems
    TOMURA Toyoaki; KANAI Satoshi
    Journal of the Japan Society of Precision Engineering, 74, 3, 306, 312, The Japan Society for Precision Engineering, 2008, [Peer-reviewed]
    Japanese, Scientific journal, Distributed control systems(DCS) consist of many sensors/actuators and a network interconnecting them, and are being introduced in various automation areas. For assuring the control performance of a DCS under heavy communication traffic, the precise simulation of the DCS is strongly needed. For this purpose, we propose a uniform, efficient and systematic method based on object-oriented design patterns for modeling and simulating DCSs. In this paper, two design patterns are newly proposed; Time-Warp pattern and Protocol pattern. Time-Warp pattern describes classes and interaction for executing the DCS simulation by communicating events having send/receive times, using Time Warp mechanism. Protocol pattern describes classes and interaction for uniformly structuring various communication protocol models used in DCSs, which are composed of the interactions among several layers and the state transition of each layer in a communication protocol. Finally, the effectiveness of the DCS simulator which is developed using these patterns was proved by comparing simulation results with the experiment results using the real DCS consisting of four CAN-based control nodes.
  • Efficient Mesh Segmentation base on Region Growing and Merging
    MIZOGUCHI Tomohiro; DATE Hiroaki; KANAI Satoshi
    Journal of the Japan Society of Precision Engineering, 74, 7, 752, 759, The Japan Society for Precision Engineering, 2008, [Peer-reviewed]
    Japanese, Scientific journal, To effectively use scanned meshes obtained by 3D laser scanner or X-ray CT scanning systems in engineering applications, such as inspection and CAD model reconstruction, we need to segment meshes and extract desirable regions and their approximating surfaces. Surfaces of engineering objects are commonly represented by a set of analytic surfaces, such as planes, cylinders, spheres, cones. Therefore, the mesh surface of them needs to be approximated by a set of analytic surfaces. In this paper we propose an efficient mesh segmentation algorithm based on region growing and region merging. Our algorithm first robustly and accurately estimates mesh principal curvatures using the two-pass estimation method. Then it fast extracts regions and their approximating analytic surfaces based on region growing even if regions are smoothly blended. Finally it efficiently merges initial set of regions of large and complex scanned meshes under the user specified tolerances using region merging. We demonstrate the efficiency and accuracy of our algorithm with scanned meshes acquired from real engineering objects by X-ray CT scanning systems.
  • A development of an ergonomic assessment system by integrating a digital hand with a product model (1st Report) - An function of virtually evaluating grasp stability for products
    Endo, Y.; Kanai, S.; Kishinami, T.; Miyata, N.; Kouchi, M.; Mochimaru, M.
    Seimitsu Kogaku Kaishi/Journal of the Japan Society for Precision Engineering, 74, 2, 182, 187, 公益社団法人精密工学会, 2008, [Peer-reviewed]
    Japanese, Scientific journal
  • Development of a production information management system to support environmental CSR activities for process production
    Takafumi Shimizu; Satoshi Kanai; Masayuki Ichinohe; Toshijiro Ohashi; Yasuo Nakagawa
    DETC2007: PROCEEDINGS OF THE ASME INTERNATIONAL DESIGN ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY CONFERENCE AND COMPUTERS AND INFORMATION IN ENGINEERING CONFERENCE, VOL 4, 819, 828, 2008, [Peer-reviewed]
    English, International conference proceedings
  • Quasi-optimal mesh segmentation via region growing/merging
    Tomohiro Mizoguchi; Hiroaki Date; Satoshi Kanai; Takeshi Kishinami
    PROCEEDINGS OF THE ASME INTERNATIONAL DESIGN ENGINEERING TECHNICAL CONFERENCES AND COMPUTERS AND INFORMATION IN ENGINEERING CONFERENCE 2007, VOL 6, PTS A AND B, 547, 556, 2008, [Peer-reviewed]
    English, International conference proceedings
  • Free-Form Deformation for Mesh Models based on Barycentric Coordinates for Convex Polytope
    MIZUNO Gaku; DATE Hiroaki; KANAI Satoshi; KISHINAMI Takeshi
    Journal of the Japan Society of Precision Engineering, 73, 3, 383, 388, The Japan Society for Precision Engineering, Mar. 2007, [Peer-reviewed]
    Japanese, Scientific journal, In this paper, we present a parametric deformation method for mesh models based on barycentric coordinates for convex polytope. First, we propose a FFD (free-form deformation)based on barycentric coordinates. Arbitrary convex polytope can be used for the deformation handle of the FFD. Next, we propose an automatic handle construction method for the FFD based on definition and classification of deformation types. Deformation handles suitable for user intended deformation types can be automatically constructed by selecting the deformation type and model portions to be deformed. Finally, we propose a parametric handle deformation method driven by the affine transformation. In our method, user can deform the model by selecting deformation type, portions to be deformed, and by manipulating one or two deformation parameters. Moreover, we propose a method for preserving approximated geometric continuity at the boundary between deformed portions and non-deformed portions of the models. For this purpose, we impose geometric constrains derived from analysis of derivatives of barycentric coordinates on the deformation handle for each deformation type.
  • Virtual ergonomic assessment on handheld products based on virtual grasping by digital hand
    Endo, Y.; Kanai, S.; Kishinami, T.; Miyata, N.; Kouchi, M.; Mochimaru, M.
    SAE Technical Papers, 2007-01-2511, 2007
    Scientific journal
  • Development of a Production Information Management System to Support Environmental CSR Activities for Process Production
    Proceedings of ASME 2007 Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference (CD-ROM), DETC2007-35316, 2007
  • Quasi-Optimal Mesh Segmentation via Region Growing/Merging
    Proceedings of ASME 2007 Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference (CD-ROM), DETC2007-35171, 2007
  • A multi-disciplinary distributed simulation environment for mechatronic system design enabling hardware-in-the-loop simulation based on HLA
    International Journal on Interactive Design and Manufacturing, 1, 3, 175, 179, 2007
  • Virtual ergonomic assessment on handheld products based on virtual grasping by digital hand
    Endo, Y.; Kanai, S.; Kishinami, T.; Miyata, N.; Kouchi, M.; Mochimaru, M.
    SAE Technical Papers, 116, 7, 877, 887, 2007
    Scientific journal
  • Free-form Deformation for Mesh Models based on Barycentric Coordinates for Convex Polytope
    MIZUNO Gaku; DATE Hiroaki; KANAI Satoshi; KISHINAMI Takeshi
    Journal of the Japan Society for Precision Engineering, 73, 3, 383, 388, The Japan Society for Precision Engineering, 2007
    Japanese, In this paper, we present a parametric deformation method for mesh models based on barycentric coordinates for convex polytope. First, we propose a FFD (free-form deformation)based on barycentric coordinates. Arbitrary convex polytope can be used for the deformation handle of the FFD. Next, we propose an automatic handle construction method for the FFD based on definition and classification of deformation types. Deformation handles suitable for user intended deformation types can be automatically constructed by selecting the deformation type and model portions to be deformed. Finally, we propose a parametric handle deformation method driven by the affine transformation. In our method, user can deform the model by selecting deformation type, portions to be deformed, and by manipulating one or two deformation parameters. Moreover, we propose a method for preserving approximated geometric continuity at the boundary between deformed portions and non-deformed portions of the models. For this purpose, we impose geometric constrains derived from analysis of derivatives of barycentric coordinates on the deformation handle for each deformation type.
  • Virtual grasping assessment using 3D digital hand model
    Yui Endo; Satoshi Kanai; Takeshi Kishinami; Natsuki Miyata; Makiko Kouchi; Masaaki Mochimaru
    10th Annual Applied Ergonomics Conference: Celebrating the Past - Shaping the Future, 2007
    English, International conference proceedings
  • A computer-aided ergonomic assessment and product design system using digital hands
    Endo, Y.; Kanai, S.; Kishinami, T.; Miyata, N.; Kouchi, M.; Mochimaru, M.
    Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), 4561 LNCS, 833, 842, 2007, [Peer-reviewed]
    Scientific journal
  • An integrated environment for testing and assessing the usability of information appliances using digital and physical mock-ups
    Satoshi Kanai; Soh Horiuchi; Yukiaki Kikuta; Akihiko Yokoyama; Yoshiyuki Shiroma
    VIRTUAL REALITY, PROCEEDINGS, 4563, 478, +, 2007, [Peer-reviewed]
    English, International conference proceedings
  • Effects of olmesartan, an AT1 receptor antagonist, on hypoxia-induced activation of ERK1/2 and pro-inflammatory signals in the mouse lung
    Yoshiyuki Tanabe; Yuki Morikawa; Takao Kato; Satoshi Kanai; Taichi Watakabe; Ami Nishijima; Hijiri Iwata; Kaori Isobe; Mayumi Ishizaki; Koichi Nakayama
    NAUNYN-SCHMIEDEBERGS ARCHIVES OF PHARMACOLOGY, 374, 3, 235, 248, Dec. 2006
    English, Scientific journal
  • Digital hand and virtual ergonomic assessment simulator for styling design
    Research in Interactive Design, 2, HUCED-1, 2006
  • Digital Usability Assessment for Information Appliances using User-Interface operable 3D Digital Mock-up
    Research in Interactive Design, 2, HUCEID-P235, 2006
  • An ergonomic assessment system using a digital hand for designing handheld information appliances
    Proceedings of ASME 2006 Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference (CD-ROM), 1, 1, DETC2006-99114, 2006
  • A Parametric Deformation Method for Mesh Models based on Barycentric Coordinates
    Proceedings of Visualization Imaging and Image Processing 2006 (CD-ROM), 359, 364, 2006
  • Flexible Feature and Resolution Control of Triangular Meshes
    DATE H.
    Proc. Sixth IASTED International Conference on Visualization, Imaging, and Image Processing, 2006, 319, 319, 324, 2006
  • Mesh Simplification and Adaptive LOD for Finite Element mesh Generation
    International Journal of CAD/CAM, 6, 1, No.8, 2006
  • A parametric deformation for mesh models based on barycentric coordinates
    Gaku Mizuno; Hiroaki Date; Satoshi Kanai; Takeshi Kishinami
    Proceedings of the 6th IASTED International Conference on Visualization, Imaging, and Image Processing, VIIP 2006, 359, 364, 2006
    English, International conference proceedings
  • A Study of Multiresolution Mesh Modeling for Finite Element Analysis
    Date Hiroaki; Kanai Satoshi; Nishigaki Ichiro; Onosato Masahiko
    Proceedings of JSPE Semestrial Meeting, 2006, 41, 42, The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2006
    Connecting some meshes is required for realizing mesh-based efficient CAE, for example, generating assembly models or setting analysis conditions. This paper proposes a new mesh combining method for triangular and tetrahedral meshes. First, the connectors which connect given two meshes are inserted, and then they are removed by the edge collapse simplification. As a result, a connected mesh that has coincident elements on the shared portions can be obtained. Our method is applicable to the meshes that have no-coincident elements and geometries on the portion to be connected, and it supports several types of mesh connections, i.e. curve-curve, curve-surface, and surface-surface connections.
  • An application of a digital hand to ergonomic assessment of handheld information appliances
    Endo, Y.; Kanai, S.; Kishinami, T.; Miyata, N.; Kouchi, M.; Mochimaru, M.
    SAE Technical Papers, 2006, [Peer-reviewed]
    Scientific journal
  • A multiresolution mesh processing system for efficient CAE
    Hiroaki Date; Satoshi Kanai; Takeshi Kishinami; Ichiro Nishigaki
    2006 SICE-ICASE INTERNATIONAL JOINT CONFERENCE, VOLS 1-13, 3685, +, 2006, [Peer-reviewed]
    English, International conference proceedings
  • Parametric deformation of mesh models for efficient CAE
    Gaku Mizuno; Hiroaki Date; Satoshi Kanai; Takeshi Kishinami; Masahiko Onosato
    2006 SICE-ICASE INTERNATIONAL JOINT CONFERENCE, VOLS 1-13, 3697, +, 2006, [Peer-reviewed]
    English, International conference proceedings
  • Segmentation of scanned mesh into analytic surfaces based on robust curvature estimation and region growing
    Tomohiro Mizoguchi; Hiroaki Date; Satoshi Kanai; Takeshi Kishinami
    GEOMETRIC MODELING AND PROCESSING - GMP 2006, PROCEEDINGS, 4077, 644, 654, 2006, [Peer-reviewed]
    English, Scientific journal
  • High-quality and property controlled finite element mesh generation from triangular meshes using the multiresolution technique
    H Date; S Kanai; T Kishinami; Nishigaki, I; T Dohi
    JOURNAL OF COMPUTING AND INFORMATION SCIENCE IN ENGINEERING, 5, 4, 266, 276, Dec. 2005
    English, Scientific journal
  • Feature Edges Extraction on Mesh Models Based on Wide Range Normal Evaluation and Modified Watershed Method(Media and Representations)
    MIZOGUCHI TOMOHIRO; DATE HIROAKI; KANAI SATOSHI; KISHINAMI TAKESHI
    IPSJ Journal, 46, 12, 3175, 3187, 一般社団法人情報処理学会, Dec. 2005, [Peer-reviewed]
    Japanese, Scientific journal, Recently, mesh models are easily obtained from several resources such as reverse engineering and searching 3D database. These mesh models are often used at the style design stage in product development. But at the detail design stage, solid models are necessary, therefore the technique which automatically generates solid models from mesh models is required for more efficient product development. In this paper, we propose a new method of feature edges extraction of triangular mesh models based on wide range normal evaluation and segmentation using modified Watershed method for generating solid models from mesh models automatically. We define feature edges as boundary edges of the region consisting of a set of triangles which should be recognized as a face. Our method is robust for scanning noise and differences of mesh connectivity, and it allows us to recognize the region bounded by extracted feature edges as a face. Our method also enables the extraction of boundary edges of fillet surface as feature edges, which was difficult by previous methods. Moreover we implemented the functions for selecting and collecting required feature edges which are extracted at different parameter settings for extractions by user interactions, and importing resulting feature edges into 3D CAD system.
  • Reverse Engineering of a Subdivision Surface Enabling Accurate Fitting around Feature Edges
    ENDO Yui; DATE Hiroaki; KANAI Satoshi; KISHINAMI Takeshi
    Journal of the Japan Society for Precision Engineering. Supplement. Contributed papers, 71, 9, 1168, 1172, 公益社団法人精密工学会, Sep. 2005, [Peer-reviewed]
    Japanese, Scientific journal, This paper proposes a new algorithm for fitting a Loop subdivision surface to dense sample points. Our fitting algorithm uses marching cubes and shrink-wrapping to fit the initial control mesh to the points measured from objects. It uses quasi-interpolation to quickly calculate the positions of initial control points from subdivision limit points and uses QEM- and curvature-based mesh simplification to preserve feature boundaries of the minute fillet regions so as to accurately fit to the feature edges. The effectiveness of our fitting algorithm was verified in reverse engineering of broad range of engineering mock-ups such as housings of a handheld wireless communicator, a cellphone, and a turbine blade. The resulting initial control mesh of the subdivision surface that was fit to over 10^6-point cloud had about several thousand of vertices with approximately 10^<-3> mean normalized fitting error.
  • A Textured Shape Design System using Mesh Modeling
    Date Hiroaki; Kanai Satoshi; Kishinami Takeshi; Iwakoshi Mutsuro; Kobayashi Masayoshi
    IPSJ SIG Notes, 2005, 44, 55, 60, 一般社団法人情報処理学会, May 2005, [Peer-reviewed]
    Japanese, Symposium, In this paper, we introduce a design system of textured shapes with small bumps using mesh-modeling techniques. Our system consists of three functions: 1) texture mesh data acquisition based on 3D scanning of sample texture material and texture extraction from existing textured models, 2) digital data processing of the texture mesh, and 3) textured shape modeling by combining meshes according to the user-specified region or direction of texture. These functions allow us to achieve effective textured shape design and prototyping.
  • A Mesh Smoothing Method with Feature Edge ldentification
    Shimizu Takafumi; Date Hiroaki; Kanai Satoshi; Kishinami Takeshi
    IPSJ SIG Notes, 2005, 44, 7, 12, 一般社団法人情報処理学会, May 2005, [Peer-reviewed]
    Japanese, Symposium, In this paper, we propose a mesh smoothing method with feature edge identification for mesh models including the measurement noise obtained from 3D scanner. First, by doing the eigen analysis of normal voting tensor, mesh edge groups that compose the feature edges can be extracted. Second, a bilateral filtering is applied to the extracted mesh edge groups in order to generate smooth edges along feature edge directions. Finally, by applying modified bilateral filtering to the overall mesh, the mesh model is obtained where the feature edges are smoothed along their directions and measurement noise included in faces surrounded by feature edges are removed.
  • Object-Oriented Design Patterns for Modeling Dynamic Behavior of Distributed Control Systems
    TOMURA Toyoaki; KANAI Satoshi; KISHINAMI Takeshi; UEHIRO Kiyoshi; YAMAMOTO Susumu
    Journal of the Japan Society for Precision Engineering. Supplement. Contributed papers, 71, 3, 379, 383, 公益社団法人精密工学会, Mar. 2005, [Peer-reviewed]
    Japanese, Scientific journal, Distributed control systems (DCS) consist of many distributed sensors and actuators and a network interconnecting them, and are being introduced in various automation areas. For assuring the control performance of DCS under the heavy communication traffic, the simulation of DCS is strongly needed. For this purpose, we propose a uniform, efficient and systematic method based on object-oriented design patterns for modeling and simulating DCSs. In this paper, two design patterns are newly proposed. Statechart pattern describes classes and interaction for uniformly executing the state transitions in a finite state machine (FSM). Event-Chain pattern describes classes and interaction for uniformly dispatching the events among FSMs. The systematic procedures of implementation from the patterns to the Java code of the DCS model, are also discussed. Finally, effectiveness of proposed method was proved by developing a Java-based DCS simulator for distributed HVAC system.
  • Mesh Quality Improvement based on Subdivision and Simplification
    DATE Hiroaki; KANAI Satoshi; KISHINAMI Takeshi; NISHIGAKI Ichiro; DOHI Takayuki
    Journal of the Japan Society for Precision Engineering. Supplement. Contributed papers, 71, 2, 223, 227, 公益社団法人精密工学会, Feb. 2005, [Peer-reviewed]
    Japanese, Scientific journal, Low-quality triangular meshes with extremely distorted triangles are generated from several mesh generation approaches, including reverse engineering and solid model tessellations. However, such meshes have a negative effect on mesh applications such as digital geometry processing and finite element analysis. Therefore, a robust and fast algorithm for mesh quality improvement is strongly required. In this paper, we propose a new mesh quality improvement method based on mesh subdivision and simplification. In our method, we first subdivide the input mesh until the resulting mesh has a sufficient degree of freedom for topology modification. Then by simplifying the subdivided mesh based on the edge collapse according to the measure of mesh quality improvement, we are able to obtain the high-quality mesh. Our approach also generates the multiresolution hierarchy of a high-quality triangular mesh, which is also useful for several mesh applications. Finally, we show the effectiveness of our approach through applications with geometric models of industrial products and quantitative evaluations.
  • Satoshi Kanai, Toyoaki Tomura, Kiyoshi Uehiro and Susumu Yamamoto: "Chapter 8, Object-oriented Design Pattern Approach to Seamless Modeling, Simulation and Implementation of Distributed Control systems", 67-76 (Eiji Arai, Jan Goosenaerts, Fumihiko Kim・・・
    2005
    Satoshi Kanai, Toyoaki Tomura, Kiyoshi Uehiro and Susumu Yamamoto: "Chapter 8, Object-oriented Design Pattern Approach to Seamless Modeling, Simulation and Implementation of Distributed Control systems", 67-76 (Eiji Arai, Jan Goosenaerts, Fumihiko Kimura and Keiichi Shirase編: "Knowledge and Skill Chains in Engineering and Manufacturing", Springer, New York) (2005).
  • A new bilateral mesh smoothing method by recognizing features
    T Shimizu; H Date; S Kanai; T Kishinami
    NINTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN AND COMPUTER GRAPHICS, PROCEEDINGS, 1, 1, 281, 286, 2005, [Peer-reviewed]
    English, International conference proceedings
  • Mesh simplification and adaptive LOD for finite element mesh generation
    H Date; S Kanai; T Kishinami; Nishigaki, I
    NINTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN AND COMPUTER GRAPHICS, PROCEEDINGS, 1, 1, 339, 344, 2005, [Peer-reviewed]
    English, International conference proceedings
  • Human-Computer Interactions for Digital Styling Design – A difficult road toward bridging the gap between concepts and 3D models
    Research in Interactive Design, 1, VC20050024, 2005
  • Feature edge extraction from mesh model based on wide range normal evaluation and modified watershed method
    T Mizoguchi; H Date; S Kanai; T Kishinami
    PROCEEDINGS OF THE 8TH JOINT CONFERENCE ON INFORMATION SCIENCES, VOLS 1-3, 1610, 1613, 2005
    English, International conference proceedings
  • Textured shape design using detail extraction based on mesh smoothing and flattening
    H Date; S Kanai; T Kisinami
    APPLICATIONS OF DIGITAL TECHNIQUES IN INDUSTRIAL DESIGN ENGINEERING-CAID&CD' 2005, 146, 151, 2005
    English, International conference proceedings
  • Low-cost and rapid prototyping of UI-embedded mock-ups using RFID and its application to usability testing
    HORIUCHI S.
    Proceedings of HCII 2005, Theories Models and Processes in HCI, 4, 2504, 2005
  • Mesh Quality Improvement based on Subdivision and Simplification
    DATE Hiroaki; KANAI Satoshi; KISHINAMI Takeshi; NISHIGAKI Ichiro; DOHI Takayuki
    Journal of the Japan Society for Precision Engineering. Supplement. Contributed papers, 71, 2, 223, 227, The Japan Society for Precision Engineering, 2005
    Japanese, Low-quality triangular meshes with extremely distorted triangles are generated from several mesh generation approaches, including reverse engineering and solid model tessellations. However, such meshes have a negative effect on mesh applications such as digital geometry processing and finite element analysis. Therefore, a robust and fast algorithm for mesh quality improvement is strongly required. In this paper, we propose a new mesh quality improvement method based on mesh subdivision and simplification. In our method, we first subdivide the input mesh until the resulting mesh has a sufficient degree of freedom for topology modification. Then by simplifying the subdivided mesh based on the edge collapse according to the measure of mesh quality improvement, we are able to obtain the high-quality mesh. Our approach also generates the multiresolution hierarchy of a high-quality triangular mesh, which is also useful for several mesh applications. Finally, we show the effectiveness of our approach through applications with geometric models of industrial products and quantitative evaluations.
  • Object-Oriented Design Patterns for Modeling Dynamic Behavior of Distributed Control Systems
    TOMURA Toyoaki; KANAI Satoshi; KISHINAMI Takeshi; UEHIRO Kiyoshi; YAMAMOTO Susumu
    Journal of the Japan Society for Precision Engineering. Supplement. Contributed papers, 71, 3, 379, 383, The Japan Society for Precision Engineering, 2005
    Japanese, Distributed control systems (DCS) consist of many distributed sensors and actuators and a network interconnecting them, and are being introduced in various automation areas. For assuring the control performance of DCS under the heavy communication traffic, the simulation of DCS is strongly needed. For this purpose, we propose a uniform, efficient and systematic method based on object-oriented design patterns for modeling and simulating DCSs. In this paper, two design patterns are newly proposed. Statechart pattern describes classes and interaction for uniformly executing the state transitions in a finite state machine (FSM). Event-Chain pattern describes classes and interaction for uniformly dispatching the events among FSMs. The systematic procedures of implementation from the patterns to the Java code of the DCS model, are also discussed. Finally, effectiveness of proposed method was proved by developing a Java-based DCS simulator for distributed HVAC system.
  • Yui Endo, Hiroaki Date, Satoshi Kanai and Takeshi Kishinami: "A robust and accurate fitting algorithm of a Loop Subdivision Surface for a Complex and High Density Point Cloud", Proceedings of Digital Engineering Workshop, 156-163, (2005)*.*
    2005
  • Soh Horiuchi, Satoshi Kanai, Takeshi Kishinami, Shoichi Hosoda, Yasuaki Ohshima and Yoshiyuki Shiroma: "A New Virtual Design Mockup for Digital Devices with Operable GUI using an RFID chip and Mixed Reality", Proceedings of Virtual Concept 2005, [1/1(C・・・
    2005
    Soh Horiuchi, Satoshi Kanai, Takeshi Kishinami, Shoichi Hosoda, Yasuaki Ohshima and Yoshiyuki Shiroma: "A New Virtual Design Mockup for Digital Devices with Operable GUI using an RFID chip and Mixed Reality", Proceedings of Virtual Concept 2005, [1/1(CD-ROM) VC2005154] (2005)*. *
  • Muturo Iwakoshi, Seiki Yasuda, Masayoshi Kobayashi, Masamichi Mito, Satoshi KANAI and Takeshi Kishinami: “A Development of a Stereolithography Machine enabling Direct Fabrication of Colored Prototype”, Proceedings of SME Rapid Prototyping & Manufacturi・・・
    2005
    Muturo Iwakoshi, Seiki Yasuda, Masayoshi Kobayashi, Masamichi Mito, Satoshi KANAI and Takeshi Kishinami: “A Development of a Stereolithography Machine enabling Direct Fabrication of Colored Prototype”, Proceedings of SME Rapid Prototyping & Manufacturing 2005, [1/1(CD-ROM) ] (2005).
  • Satoshi Kanai, Toyoaki Tomura, Kiyoshi Uehiro and Susumu Yamamoto: "Chapter 8, Object-oriented Design Pattern Approach to Seamless Modeling, Simulation and Implementation of Distributed Control systems", 67-76 (Eiji Arai, Jan Goosenaerts, Fumihiko Kim・・・
    2005
    Satoshi Kanai, Toyoaki Tomura, Kiyoshi Uehiro and Susumu Yamamoto: "Chapter 8, Object-oriented Design Pattern Approach to Seamless Modeling, Simulation and Implementation of Distributed Control systems", 67-76

    (Eiji Arai, Jan Goosenaerts, Fumihiko Kimura and Keiichi Shirase編: "Knowledge and Skill Chains in Engineering and Manufacturing", Springer, New York) (2005).
  • 「広域的法線評価と改良Watershed法に基づくメッシュモデルの特徴稜線抽出手法」
    情報処理学会論文誌, 46, 12, 3175, 3187, 2005
  • Feature edges extraction on mesh models based on wide range normal evaluation and modified watershed method
    Information Processing Society Japan Journal, 46, 12, 3175, 3187, 2005
  • Endo,Y., KANAI,S. and Kishinami,T. : " A robust, accurate and flexible fitting algorithms of subdivision surface for point cloud in industrial design use", Proceedings of 3D Modelling 2004, [1/1(CD-ROM) 1] (2004)
    2004
  • Date, H., KANAI,S. and Kishinami, T. : " Mesh quality improvement based on mesh subdivision and simplification", Proceedings of 3D Modelling 2004, [1/1(CD-ROM) 2] (2004)
    2004
  • Urushihara, A., Kanai,S., Kishinami,T. and Tomura, T.: "BEHAVIOR MODELER: Systematically generating Statechart from Functional Relations and Scenarios for prototyping User Interface", Proceedings of 5th International Conference on Computer-aided Design・・・
    2004
    Urushihara, A., Kanai,S., Kishinami,T. and Tomura, T.: "BEHAVIOR MODELER: Systematically generating Statechart from Functional Relations and Scenarios for prototyping User Interface", Proceedings of 5th International Conference on Computer-aided Design of User Interfaces CADUI'2004, 67-80 (2004).*
  • Real -time tracking of head rotation for human-computer-interaction based on image projection curves
    Takanori Yamada; Katsuhisa Shibukawa; Hiroaki Date; Satoshi Kanai; Takeshi Kishinami
    Proceedings of the Fourth IASTED International Conference on Visualization, Imaging, and Image Processing, 129, 134, 2004
    English, International conference proceedings
  • Algebraic declaration and axiom based validation for user interface design of IT instrument
    Y Kikuchi; S Kanai; T Kishinami
    IEEE INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON COMMUNICATIONS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES 2004 (ISCIT 2004), PROCEEDINGS, VOLS 1 AND 2, 232, 237, 2004, [Peer-reviewed]
    English, International conference proceedings
  • Object-oriented Design Patterns for Modeling Static Structures of Distributed Control Systems
    TOMURA Toyoaki; KANAI Satoshi; KISHINAMI Takeshi; UEHIRO Kiyoshi; YAMAMOTO Susumu
    Journal of the Japan Society of Precision Engineering, Vol.69, No.6, 815, 819, The Japan Society for Precision Engineering, 2003
    Japanese, Recently distributed control systems (DCS), which consist of many devices and a network interconnecting them, are introduced in various automation systems. For assuring the control performance under the heavy communication traffic, the simulation of DCS is strongly needed. For this purpose, we propose a uniform, efficient and systematic method based on object-oriented design patterns for modeling and simulating DCS. Two design patterns are newly proposed. Device-Constructor and Composite-Device-Constructor patterns describe classes and mechanisms for uniformly structuring device models composed of sensor and actuator models, and for uniformly structuring composite device models composed of device models. The systematic procedures of implementation from the patterns to Java code of the DCS model are also discussed. Finally, effectiveness of proposed method was proved in developing a Java-based DCS modeler and simulator for building automation area.
  • A cooperative simulation mechanism of distributed control systems based on object-oriented design patterns
    T Tomura; S Kanai; T Kishinami
    ISORC 2003: SIXTH IEEE INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON OBJECT-ORIENTED REAL-TIME DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING, PROCEEDINGS, 83, 90, 2003, [Peer-reviewed]
    English, International conference proceedings
  • XML/Web based infrastructure to support sharing geospatial data and ecological model for simulation of eco-resource
    F Tanaka; D Sakaguchi; S Kanai; T Kishinami; S Saitoh
    IGARSS 2001: SCANNING THE PRESENT AND RESOLVING THE FUTURE, VOLS 1-7, PROCEEDINGS, 213, 215, 2001
    English, International conference proceedings
  • An adaptive LOD control method for textured digital terrain model using wavelet-based multiresolution representation
    H Date; S Kanai; T Kishinami
    IGARSS 2001: SCANNING THE PRESENT AND RESOLVING THE FUTURE, VOLS 1-7, PROCEEDINGS, 1847, 1849, 2001, [Peer-reviewed]
    English, International conference proceedings
  • Copyright protection of vector map using digital watermarking method based on discrete Fourier transform
    Kitamura, I; S Kanai; T Kishinami
    IGARSS 2001: SCANNING THE PRESENT AND RESOLVING THE FUTURE, VOLS 1-7, PROCEEDINGS, 1191, 1193, 2001, [Peer-reviewed]
    English, International conference proceedings
  • Seamless design methodology of manufacturing cell-control software based on activity-control-condition and object diagram
    T Tomura; S Kanai; T Kishinami
    INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF COMPUTER INTEGRATED MANUFACTURING, 13, 3, 263, 272, May 2000, [Peer-reviewed]
    English, Scientific journal
  • Object-oriented graphical specification and seamless design procedure for manufacturing cell control software development
    Satoshi Kanai; Takeshi Kishinami; Toyoaki Tomura
    Proceedings-IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 1, 401, 407, 2000, [Peer-reviewed]
    English, Scientific journal
  • Digital watermarking for 3d polygonal model based on wavelet transform
    Hiroaki Date; Satoshi Kanai; Takeshi Kishinami
    Proceedings of the ASME Design Engineering Technical Conference, 2, 1063, 1072, American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1999
    English, International conference proceedings
■ Other Activities and Achievements
■ Books and other publications
  • 地理空間情報の基本と活用
    古今書院, 2009
  • Basic Theory and Application of Geo-spatial Information
    KOKON SYOIN, 2009
  • デジタルスタイルデザイン
    海文堂出版株式会社, 2008
  • Computer-Aided Design of User Interfaces IV
    Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2005
■ Lectures, oral presentations, etc.
■ Affiliated academic society
  • 日本写真測量学会
  • IEEE
  • 日本設計工学会
  • 精密工学会
■ Works
  • 韓国海洋大学校工科大学での学部学生向け特別講演の実施
    2011
  • Delft工科大学での教員向け特別講演の実施
    2011
■ Research Themes
  • レーザ計測と複合現実を用いた屋内環境のオンサイト実時間デジタルツイン構築
    科学研究費助成事業
    01 Apr. 2024 - 31 Mar. 2028
    伊達 宏昭; 金井 理
    日本学術振興会, 基盤研究(B), 北海道大学, 24K01044
  • Development of the home-mechanical ventilator XR simulator to build a bridge for "Theory-Practice Gap."
    Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research
    01 Apr. 2022 - 31 Mar. 2025
    コリー 紀代; 中村 美鈴; 小水内 俊介; 二宮 伸治; 金井 理; 近野 敦; 井上 創造; 五十嵐 真里
    研究者らは今まで、ダイナミックプロジェクションマッピング技術を用いた気管内吸引シミュレータ(ESTE-SIM)を共同開発し、吸引カテーテル操作の巧緻による表情や顔色の変化などの生体反応を呈示するシミュレータとして開発と評価を継続してきた。また、シミュレータを用いた教育における学習効果の客観的指標として、看護師群と学生群の視線と動作解析により学習効果を検証してきた。そこで本研究の目的は、①医療事故の体験も可能な在宅人工呼吸器の複合現実シミュレータを開発し、②機械学習を用いた特徴量抽出による学習評価アルゴリズムの構築の2つを目的としている。


    2023年度までに、①については、人工呼吸器測定値モニタの波形変化を体験可能なアプリ(Simmar:二宮研究室開発)をESTE-SIMを統合し、「人工呼吸器装着中の気管内吸引」がトレーニング可能なシミュレータ(Simmar+ESTE-SIM)を開発した。本シミュレータは、管見の限り「世界初」の人工呼吸器XRシミュレータであり、「手技に応じた生体反応を呈する看護シミュレータESTE-SIMと人工呼吸器シミュレータSimmarの統合」としてSI2023にて発表した(小水内ら,2023)。専門分野を問わず反響が大きく、日本ロボット学会誌、Precision Medicineより原稿執筆依頼があった。2023年12月には基幹技術の特許を取得しており、現在、論文を投稿中である。②に関しては、The 5th International Conference on Activity and Behavior Computing(ABC2023),Best Paper Awardを獲得した。
    Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), Hokkaido University, 23K24956
  • Development of home mechanical ventilator AR simulators which bridge practice education gap
    Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research
    01 Apr. 2022 - 31 Mar. 2025
    コリー 紀代; 二宮 伸治; 金井 理; 近野 敦; 井上 創造; 中村 美鈴; 小水内 俊介
    本研究では、①医療事故の体験も可能な人工呼吸器複合現実シミュレータの開発と、②機械学習を用いた特徴量抽出による学習評価アルゴリズムの構築を目的としている。


    ①に関しては、広島国際大学の二宮教授ラボにおいて人工呼吸器の操作パネルと測定値グラフの表示が可能な人工呼吸器トレーニングアプリSimmarを開発いただき、関東圏の2大学において大学院生約40名を対象としたユーザテストとアンケート調査を実施した。その結果、卒後1年目から人工呼吸器に携わったと回答した者が30名(71.4%)、学部レベルでSIMMAN-ALS5000を使用した経験のある12名のうち、8名が満足したと回答し、4名が不満と回答した。大学院レベルでSIMMAN-ALS5000を使用した17名のうち、12名が満足したと回答した。まともに習ったことがないという自由記載も認められた。同時に、特別支援学校における人工呼吸器装着児への看護師のかかわりについて360度動画教材を開発し、アンケートを実施したところ、教材の難易度について、学部3年次の学習内容として適切と回答した者が約8割、学部4年次として適切と回答した者が同じく約8割であった。2023年度はこれらの結果と学会発表後のディスカッションを踏まえ、教材の難易度を設定する。


    ②に関しては、九州工業大学の井上教授と共に機械学習において抽出すべきタスクについて検討し、先行研究に基づき、手袋着用から手袋廃棄までの気管内吸引の一連の流れを1回の気管内吸引とし、吸引前の判断指標となる「肺音聴診」、吸引後の看護介入である「体位ドレナージ」を含めた行動認識のためのアノテーションを進めている。翌年度は、習熟度を判定する分類器の開発を進める。
    Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), Hokkaido University, 22H03701
  • 「教育と臨床の乖離」に架橋する在宅人工呼吸器複合現実シミュレータの開発
    科学研究費補助金
    Apr. 2022 - Mar. 2024
    コリー紀代; 金井理; 近野敦; 小水内俊介; 二宮信治
    日本学術振興会, 基盤研究(B), 北海道大学大学院医学系研究院,北海道大学大学院情報科学研究院 他, Coinvestigator, 22H0370102
  • 三次元画像解析に基づく新規骨性パラメーターによる股関節疾患の遠隔画像診断法の確立
    科学研究費補助金
    Apr. 2021 - Mar. 2024
    入江 徹; 金井 理
    基盤研究(C), Coinvestigator
  • 3次元画像計測を用いた 堆雪体積測定技術の開発
    令和4年度:建設現場の生産性を飛躍的に向上するための革新的技術の導入・活用に関するプロジェクト
    Aug. 2022 - Mar. 2023
    金井理; 須田清隆; abdulrahman mohamed; 漆館直
    国土交通省, 共同研究, 環境風土テクノ,北海道大学情報科学研究院,建設IOT研究所,堀口組, Coinvestigator
  • SfM-MVSのための最適撮影計画支援システムの実用化に向けた開発
    Aug. 2021 - Mar. 2023
    金井理,伊達宏昭; 本間亮平; 新名恭仁
    ㈱アジア航測, 共同研究, Principal investigator
  • CAEモデル自動生成のためのデジタル幾何処理技術に関する開発
    Jun. 2021 - Mar. 2023
    伊達宏昭; 髙嶋英巌; 泰地哲史
    ㈱AIS北海道, 共同研究, Principal investigator
  • 写真計測による土木構造物の高能率・高品質3次元再構成技術の開発
    Apr. 2020 - Mar. 2022
    金井理; 須田清隆
    ㈱環境風土テクノ, 奨学寄附金, Principal investigator
  • レーザ計測に基づく屋内空間のAs-built CFD解析用メッシュ生成技術の開発
    Nov. 2020 - Oct. 2021
    金井理; 脇坂英佑
    ㈱新菱冷熱, 奨学寄附金, Principal investigator
  • Development of data processing methods of 3D scanned point cloud of environments based on point quality optimization
    Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research
    01 Apr. 2018 - 31 Mar. 2021
    Date Hiroaki
    In this research, we developed methods of 3D scan data processing considering the scan quality in order to use 3D scan data of large-scale environments and structures more stably and accurately in several 3D applications. We developed methods for estimating the scan quality of 3D scan data (point clouds), methods for supporting 3D scan data acquisition to efficiently acquire high quality 3D scan data, and basic processing methods of 3D scan data based on the scan quality. The effectiveness of the methods were evaluated through experiments using real scan data of some environments and structures.
    Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), Hokkaido University, 18K03896
  • 3次元計測点群からの消波ブロックの3次元認識と補充ブロックの高精度見積
    Apr. 2020 - Mar. 2021
    金井理; 佐野朝昭
    ㈱アルファ水工, 奨学寄附金, Principal investigator
  • 中小建設業を対象にした映像を活用したIoT施工法(VisualConstruction)の開発
    建設技術研究開発費補助金
    Oct. 2019 - Mar. 2021
    金井 理
    国土交通省, Principal investigator, Competitive research funding
  • Development of three-dementional simulation to improve instant judgement and technical elaborateness
    Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research
    01 Apr. 2017 - 31 Mar. 2020
    Noriyo Colley
    To provide safe and effective tracheal suctioning, prompt and multiangle decision and delicate catheter operation must be acquired. We developed a Projection Mapping simulator which shows biological reactions of an adult patient by 3D Computer Graphics to train above mentioned skills. Several scenarios which frequently clinically occur, e.g. the drop of the arterial oxygen saturation by the prolonged suctioning time, was created. Using such scenario, experienced nurse's and nursing students' eye movement and motion was inspected to quantify the learning curve to obtain judgment skill and delicate suctioning catheter control. Particular results were shown about the difference of eye movement and motion between the nursing student group and the nurse group.
    Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), Hokkaido University, 17H04425
  • Creation of hyperrealistic VR environment based on MMS measurement point cloud data and evaluation of traveling road surface by the Kansei information
    Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research
    01 Apr. 2014 - 31 Mar. 2018
    KAWAMURA AKIRA; Rossi Riccardo; Kanitpong Kunnawee
    This study aims at development of an evaluation method of road surface from the viewpoint of road users and the establishment of a high-level PMS.


    Firstly, we designed the traveling scenario of driving simulator (DS) collecting point cloud data at real roads acquired by Mobile Mapping System (MMS) device and meteorological data so as to show drivers sequence of images of road and its surroundings super-realistically. Then we carried out the experiment using the DS to evaluate road surface based on subjective rating and physiological response of the drivers. The result suggests that heart-rate variability correlates well with the subject rating. Furthermore, we conducted physiological response analysis by the DS in consideration of driving situations.The analysis result enables identification of Kansei expression corresponding to road surface characteristics and it represents a way of modeling road surface evaluation for the road maintenance and serviceability in terms of road users.
    Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), Kitami Institute of Technology, 26289167
  • High quality point cloud generation of large-scale environments using various 3D scanners
    Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research
    01 Apr. 2014 - 31 Mar. 2017
    Date Hiroaki
    In this research, some methods for combining several 3D scan data from various 3D scanning systems and optimized scanning in order to obtain high quality 3D scan data of large-scale environments and structures. For combining several 3D scan data, efficient automatic registration methods for 3D scan data acquired from terrestrial laser scanner, mobile laser scanner, handy scanner, and structure from motion are developed. For optimized scanning, methods to estimate best laser-scanner positions which allow us to acquire high quality point clouds with a smaller number of scanning, considering scanning importance of the objects and laser-scanning properties, are developed.
    Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), Hokkaido University, 26420073
  • Accessibility evaluation of large-scale as-built environment by the integration of laser-scanning and digital human model
    Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research
    01 Apr. 2014 - 31 Mar. 2016
    Kanai Satoshi; DATE HIROAKI
    The goal of this research is to realize the accessibility evaluation of "as-built" environments based on the detailed human behavior simulation. To this end, we propose a method where as-built 3D environment models can be constructed in a fully automatic way from laser-scanned 3D point clouds measured from as-built environments. Additionally, we propose an advanced walking simulation function of the digital human model (DHM) in the as-built environment models. The proposed simulation enabled a DHM to automatically walk utilizing the functions of the global path findings, the walking path location control, the local collision avoidance and the walking motion generation. Moreover, we applied our modeling and simulation algorithms to the complex as-built environments such as a two-storey indoor environment, and an outdoor environment which includes slopes. The efficiency and effectiveness of the modeling and simulation were confirmed.
    Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research, Hokkaido University, 26560168
  • リバースエンジニアリングの迅速化を図る3次元CAD/CAMデータ作成支援システムの開発
    受託研究
    Apr. 2012 - Mar. 2015
    金井 理
    北海道立総合研究機構, Principal investigator, Competitive research funding
  • モバイルマッピングによる計測データを用いた物体認識の研究
    共同研究
    Jan. 2014 - Jun. 2014
    金井 理
    国際航業株式会社, Principal investigator, Competitive research funding
  • 高精度属性付MMS点群の高精度・高能率Registration手法の開発
    共同研究
    Apr. 2013 - Mar. 2014
    伊達 宏昭
    アジア航測株式会社, Competitive research funding
  • Fully-automatic build and update technology of 3D as-built equipment model by laser scanning
    Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research
    2012 - 2014
    KANAI Satoshi; DATE Hiroaki; MIZOGUCHI Tomohiro
    The purpose of this research is to develop advanced and fully-automated software for object recognition and modeling from massive laser scanned point clouds captured from large-scale equipment with current status to automatically construct “as-built equipment model” where each object in the equipment is semantically annotated. The software also aims for updating the as-built model continuously over time with minimum effort of additional laser scanning operation over long term, and for proposing a set of common and invariant primitive point clouds processing algorithms to support the recognition and modeling chemical plants, large-buildings, electric power plants etc.
    Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), Hokkaido University, Principal investigator, Competitive research funding, 24360057
  • モバイルマッピングによる計測データを用いた物体認識の研究
    共同研究
    Nov. 2012 - Jun. 2013
    金井 理
    国際航業株式会社, Principal investigator, Competitive research funding
  • 高精度属性付MMS点群の高精度・高能率Registration手法の開発
    共同研究
    Apr. 2012 - Mar. 2013
    金井 理
    アジア航測株式会社, Principal investigator, Competitive research funding
  • マイクロフォーカスX線CTシステムを用いた現物融合型CAD/CAE解析技術の開発
    受託研究
    Jul. 2010 - Mar. 2012
    金井 理
    北海道立総合研究機構, Principal investigator, Competitive research funding
  • Accurate process planning of MEMS devices using multi-resolution mesh models
    Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research
    2011 - 2012
    KANAI Satoshi; DATE Hiroaki; SHIBATA Takayuki; KAWASHIMA Takahiro
    The objective of this study is to enable designers who are not necessarily the experts on MEMS(Micro Electro Mechanical Systems) manufacturing processes to easily plan the feasible and low-cost manufacturing processes of MEMS devices. To achieve this, a prototype of the computer-aided process planning system of MEMS devices was developed where (1) all feasible process plans of the device could be searched for and (2) device shapes and structures easier to fabricate could be estimated automatically based on the multi-resolution mesh model of the devices.
    Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research, Hokkaido University, Principal investigator, Competitive research funding, 23656112
  • Development of a practical virtual ergonomic assessment system using Digital Hand
    Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research(基盤研究(B))
    2009 - 2011
    Satoshi KANAI; Yoshiyuki SHIROMA; Hiroaki DATE; Masaaki MOCHIMARU
    The purpose of the research is to build a virtual ergonomic assessment system for handheld products such as digital cameras based on the Digital Hand. The Digital Hand is a model which can simulate the 3D precise outer skin geometry and finger kinematic structure of human hands. Ease-of-grasp and ease-of fingered operation can be quantitatively evaluated in the system. The following functions were developed ; (1) Constructing Digital Hand models based on MRI measurement of human hands, (2) Optimization-based grasp posture synthesis, (3) Quantitative estimation of ease-of-grasp based on muscle-skeletal model, (4) Quantitative estimation of ease-of fingered operation, and (5) Efficient contact deformation simulation between hand and product. Moreover, the developed software was applied to evaluating the product shape in real design environments of manufactures.
    Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, 基盤研究(B), 北海道大学, Principal investigator, Competitive research funding, 21360067
  • 3次元デジタルプロトタイプを用いた情報機器の超短期間ユーザビリティ評価システムの開発
    平成21年度シーズ発掘試験(発掘型)
    Aug. 2009 - Mar. 2010
    金井 理
    科学技術振興機構, Principal investigator, Competitive research funding
  • 機械装置のリアルタイム制御シミュレーション技術に関する研究
    平成21年度 特別教育研究経費連携融合事業
    Apr. 2009 - Mar. 2010
    金井 理
    北海道大学 連携融合事業「協働型開発研究事業-地域COEの形成-」, Principal investigator, Competitive research funding
  • 航空レーザ点群データを用いた高精度モデリング技術の開発
    共同研究
    Jul. 2008 - Mar. 2009
    金井 理
    国際航業株式会社, Principal investigator, Competitive research funding
  • プレス成型品スプリングバック見込み形状自動生成に関する研究
    共同研究
    Jun. 2008 - Mar. 2009
    金井 理
    トヨタケーラム, Principal investigator, Competitive research funding
  • Recognition and Modeling from 3D Measured Data from Large-scale Environment
    2009
    Competitive research funding
  • A study on automatic high-quality 3D geometric model generation A study on automatic high-quality 3D geometric model generationA study on automatic high-quality 3D geometric model generation methods from X-ray CT scan data
    Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research(基盤研究(B))
    2007 - 2008
    Satoshi KANAI; Hiroaki DATE
    本研究は, 工業用X線CT計測データから全自動・高品質な3次元形状モデルを構築する技術を実現すべく, 実工業製品の大規模なX線CT計測メッシュから, エンジニアリングで要求される高品質な3次元形状モデルのフィーチャ認識を, 高精度に, 安定かつ自動で, しかも高速に行なえるアルゴリズムと, 認識の基本となる高精度なメッシュ曲率算出アルゴリズムを開発し, そのアルゴリズムが十分な実用性をもつことを検証した.
    Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, 基盤研究(B), 北海道大学, Principal investigator, Competitive research funding, 19360067
  • デジタルハンドを用いた情報機器の意匠・エルゴノミクス両立デザイン支援の研究
    科学研究費補助金(萌芽研究)
    2007 - 2008
    金井 理; 持丸 正明; 城間 祥之
    (1)製品のユーザインタフェース操作に適したデジタルハンド把持姿勢自動生成手法の開発デジタルハンドに対する把持姿勢の容易な把持姿勢例題のデータベースを用い, 対話入力なしに, 情報機器に適した把持姿勢を自動導出できる新たな把持姿勢生成法を提案した. まず把持させたい製品モデルに対し, データベースへ登録された既存の把持姿勢例題中から, 入力製品形状を幾何学的に把持可能な全ての姿勢候補を形状マッチングにより探索し, 次に上肢関節可動性と製品表示部可視性という2種類の幾何学的制約に基づき, 姿勢候補の効率的な絞り込みを行うことで, 入力された情報機器の把持と操作に適合したごく少数の姿勢候補のみを導出可能なことを, 2種類の情報機器製品モデル(デジタル1眼レフカメラ, 携帯電話)に対する把持姿勢生成の計算機実験から明らかにした.(2)製品再設計のためのフィット性を考慮したデジタルハンド把持姿勢自動生成手法の開発持ちやすさの第三の評価指標として, 筐体と手の問の「フィット性」の仮想評価手法を提案するとともに, フィット性に優れた把持姿勢を最適化に基づき生成する手法を提案した. すなわち, ハンド・筐体間の接触点数, 筐体凸稜線部への指腹部分の重複程度, 手指関節角の連動性の3者から構成されるフィット性を表した目的関数を設定し, その最適化に基づき把持姿勢を自動決定する手法を開発している. また市販一眼レフカメラのグリップ部を対象に, 推定された最適把持姿勢を実被験者に再現させ, その姿。勢が人間にとっても, よりフィット感の高い妥当な姿勢であることを実験的に検証した.
    文部科学省, 萌芽研究, 北海道大学, Principal investigator, Competitive research funding, 19650043
  • 現物融合型デジタルエンジニアリング
    科学研究費補助金
    2007
    Competitive research funding
  • Convergent Type Digital Engineering
    Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research
    2007
    Competitive research funding
  • A research on integrated process of solid-model-less styling design and analysis using advanced mesh modeling operations
    Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research(基盤研究(B))
    2005 - 2006
    Satoshi KANAI; Hiroaki DATE
    The purpose of this research is to develop software where legacy mesh models for analysis can be retrieved using a query of a hand written sketch or sampled point data from physical model, where a new mesh model for analysis for a new design idea can be obtained quickly by deforming the legacy models so as to fit to the sketch or sampled points. Therefore, in this research, advanced mesh modeling operations which stand geometric modeling ability similar to conventional solid modeling operations and mesh-generation for analysis were developed. The research results can be summarized as follows. 1) A content based mesh retrieval function from hand-written sketch has been developed where mesh models which have similar projected view to the sketch can be retrieved using generic Fourier descriptor and local binary patterns. 2) A mesh-assembly function has been developed where two complex mesh models in contact can be merged into one model using surface offsetting and edge-collapse operations for tetrahedral mesh. 3) A mesh feature removal function has been developed where the small form features on the mesh model such as holes, slots and bosses can be automatically recognized and these features can be removed or regenerated using our LOD control algorithm. 4) Feature recognition and mesh deforming functions have been developed where partial surface regions on the large scale mesh which can be approximated to a singe kind of analytic surface can be automatically segmented, and where geometry of the mesh can be deformed in the dimension driven way using a special deforming function based on the barycentric coordinate interpolation for mesh. These research results were presented in public in the form of 10 research papers and 2 patent applications.
    Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, 基盤研究(B), 北海道大学, Principal investigator, Competitive research funding, 17360056
  • Research on Digital semantic product model for product life cycle support
    Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research
    2002 - 2006
    KISHINAMI Takeshi; YAMADA Makoto; TANAKA Fumiki; AKAMA Kiyoshi; MISTUI Satoshi; KONDO Tsukasa
    The manufacturing industry is increasingly dependent on digital tools, such as CAD, CAE, CAM, product data management (PDM) systems CNC machines to design and manufacture products. Moreover, the movement toward concurrent engineering drives the need for frequent transformation of the product data between different digital tools. In order to realize the articulate link between design and manufacturing and the traceable manufacturing system, it is necessary to realize interoperable digital tools which represent the semantics of information independently of any implementations. Interoperability characterizes the ability of product model data to accurately represent objects in all collaborative engineering environments. Today, all engineering data, such as geometry representation data, tolerance data, etc., are not used throughout product development processes. An interoperability error makes product model data unusable when applying digital tools. If an interoperability error arises in collaborative engineering applications, tracking the error back to its source is expensive (if not impossible) and requires a significant amount of time. Moreover, the quality of data that represent information should be ensured during the product life cycle. In this research, the Digital Semantic Model that fulfills the above requirements was proposed.
    The digital semantic product model consisted of the quality assurance of the product model data, the semantic modeling for humans (such as designer and worker), understandable and computer readable data, and the functional modeling for supporting the product life cycle. In order to ensure the product model data, the Product Data Quality Checking method for the ISO Standard product model was proposed. In order to support all of the product lifecycle activities, the functional model for each activity was developed based on the related ISO Standard. In order to represent the semantics of the data, the EXPRESS language for data modeling and XML for representing the data, was adopted.
    Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (S), HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY, 14102032
  • Advanced Functional Evaluation System for Automatic Machinery enabling to combine Multi-disciplinary Simulations
    Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research(基盤研究(C))
    2003 - 2004
    Satoshi KANAI; 中村 孝太郎; Toyoaki TOMURA; Takeshi KISHINAMI; Kohtaro NAKAMURA
    The purpose of this research is to develop a virtual functional evaluation system for designing automatic machinery where multi-disciplinary simulators for workpiece deformation, machine kinematics and control software can be coordinated and collaborated each other, and where the realistic behavior of the machine can be simulated.The results of the research were summarized as follows :(1)A methodology and a developing environment were proposed where commercial off-the-shelf kinematic simulator and control software simulator could be communicated real-time using RTI middleware compatible with the distributed simulation standard HLA. The environment was applied to verify the dynamic behavior of a CD drive mechanism under control, and it was confirmed that several kinds of hidden mechanical and control design mistakes could be easily found by using this environment.(2)To realize the efficient simulation time advancement in the collaborative simulation among different simulators, the Time Warp mechanism was developed where the time step could vary in each federate. This mechanism was implemented in federates of the collaborative simulation, and it was confirmed that the simulation efficiency of the automatic machinery controlled by the FieldBus was greatly improved.(3)To predict the workpiece deformation by FEA for verifying the automatic packaging machine, a multi-resolution FEA mesh generation method was developed where the number of elements and geometric qualities of the elements can be controlled flexibly. And a deformation simulation algorithm of thin packaging film based on discrete shell model was implemented, and the defects of the packaging process caused by the fine creases could be predicted to some extent.
    Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, 基盤研究(C), 北海道大学, Principal investigator, Competitive research funding, 15560089
  • デジタルヒューマンモデルを利用した製品の仮想エルゴノミック評価技術
    科学研究費補助金
    2004
    Competitive research funding
  • Virtual ergonomic assessment of products using Digital human model
    Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research
    2004
    Competitive research funding
  • Unified 3D Design Environment using Multi-resolution Mesh Modeling
    Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research(基盤研究(C))
    2001 - 2002
    Satoshi KANAI; Takeshi KISHINAMI
    The purpose of this research is to develop a new unified 3D design environment where the multi-resolution triangular mesh models are used as the standard of the geometric models.The results of the research were summarized as follows :(1) The development of multi-resolution mesh modeling for FEM analysis.Two types of multi-resolution mesh modeling methods were developed : Detail-preserving type and Detail-Removing type. In the methods, level-of-detail for mesh and geometry can be controlled independently, and the shape and vertex order of the mesh can be leveled.(2) The development of multi-resolution mesh modeling for collision detection.The multi-resolution mesh modeling method was develped where the low-resolution mesh contains the high-resolution one and the over-estimation amount between these meshes can be minimized using linear programming. This method is useful for fast collision test of digital mock-up systems.(3) The development of generating subdivision surfaces from point cloud using quasi-interpolation.In this method, the geometry and topology of the initial control mesh of a Loop subdivision surf:ace can be generated fast, stably and adaptively from a cloud of measured points. The experimental results showed that several ten thousand measured points were approximated only by the subdivision surface with the control mesh of several hundred vertices.
    Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, 基盤研究(C), 北海道大学, Principal investigator, Competitive research funding, 13650110
  • 情報機器設計とプロトタイピングのためのデジタルエンジニアリング
    受託研究
    2002
    Competitive research funding
  • Digital Engineering for design and prototyping of information appliances
    Funded Research
    2002
    Competitive research funding
  • A study of representation of a machining knowledge and a manufacturing resource model for an integrated manufacturing design system
    Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research
    2000 - 2001
    KISHINAMI Takeshi; TANAKA Fumiki; KANAI Satoshi
    A significant amount of research for machining process planning and machining feature extraction has been carried out for realizing an integrated CAD/CAPP/CAM system. The Standard for the Exchange of Product model data (STEP) has also emerged as a viable method for product model data exchange among design activities. However, a consistent STEP/AP set for integrating design, process planning and machining for mechanical components has not completely been developed thus far, because process planning is very complicated for analyzing a process and making a support data model, and STEP is intended to concentrate data communication on the area of design and management process. To solve this problem in this project, we perform the following items:
    1. Establishing a information modeling technology that enable us to archiving and sharing the machining knowledge and information of machining resources in a manufacturing system
    2. Implementing the integrated manufacturing design system based on the proposed information modeling technology of the machining knowledge and machining resources.
    3. Making a process plan for a mechanical part using the proposed integrated manufacturing design system.
    Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY, 12450053
  • A Seamless Environment for developing Massively Distributed Control Software of Factory Automation
    Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research(基盤研究(B))
    2000 - 2001
    Satoshi KANAI; 山元 進; Toyoaki TOMURA; Takeshi KISHINAMI; Susumu YAMAMOTO
    The purpose of this research is to utilize a methodology and a tool for modeling, simulating and implementing the massively distributed control software for factory automation system based on object-orientation. The following results were obtained.1) Evaluation of utilization for proposed tool for simulation and modeling.A systematic methodology was proposed for implementing the simulation models described by Statecharts and event chain model as Java code by using design patterns. And the methodology was implemented by applying a CASE tool and a Java development tool. It was applied to designing and verifying the distributed control system for a practical air-control system. As a result, the design and verification could be completed in two weeks, and it was confirmed the design period could be greatly reduced.2) Integration of simulation with implementation for distributed control system.A transformation method from the simulation models described by Java code to the implementation code described by Neuron-C was developed based on the design patterns. It can be applied to developing the control software for material handling unit of factory automation. As a result, the effectiveness of the proposed method was confirmed.3) Software testing method and tool for verifying implemented code of control nodes based on timed I/O Statecharts.A testing method and a tester tool were developed by Java code where the black box testing can be automatically applied for the implemented code of simulation models generated from timed I/O Statechart. They were applied to testing the control code for air conditioning system, and it was confirmed that a testing period could be reduced to only one day by using the proposed method and tool.
    Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, 基盤研究(B), 北海道大学, Principal investigator, Competitive research funding, 12555031
  • A study on the Digital Watermarking and Copyright Protection Method for 3D Geometric Models
    Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research(基盤研究(C))
    1999 - 2000
    Satoshi KANAI; Takeshi KISHINAMI
    The purpose of this research is to develop the new digital watermarking methods for 3D geometric models in the area of CAD, CAM, CAE and CG.Watermarking is one of the copyright protection methods where an invisible watermark is secretly embedded into the original data. The proposed watermarking method is based on wavelet transform and multi-resolution representation of the 3D geometric models.In this research, large-scale polygon, solid and surface models were firstly designed using commercial 3-D CAD systems. Then the series of operations consisting watermark embedding on these models, coordinate transformation and modification of models, and watermark extraction were executed in order to evaluate the performance of proposed watermarking method.The robustness of the watermark for external attacks, capacity of embeddable watermark and the geometric error caused by watermark embedding were evaluated quantitatively. The following results were obtained ;(1) The embedded watermarks were completely kept under the affine transformation.(2) The geometric error of the models caused by the embedding could be easily kept within the specified tolerances.(3) The embedded watermarks were robust to the several attacks such as noise superposition and vertex modification on the models.(4) The embedded watermarks were not robust to the cropping operation for the models.Furthermore, the developed watermarking method was improved so as to be applied to the watermarking for 2D vector data such as digital map. As a result of the experiment, it was verified that the visual quality of the data could be kept, the capacity of the watermark was large enough to store the copyright data, and the watermark was very robust to the noise superposition on the vertex coordinates.In the future, the modification of the algorithm will be necessary so that the embedded watermark becomes more robust to the cropping operation for the 2-D or 3-D geometric models.
    Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, 基盤研究(C), 北海道大学, Principal investigator, Competitive research funding, 11650113
  • Formal Representation of Machining Process and Systematizing of Machining Feature Model
    Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research
    1998 - 1999
    KISHINAMI Takeshi; TANAKA Fumiki; KANAI Satoshi
    This research deals with feature models of a machining operation and machined shapes for single cutting edge machining, which correspond directly to the machining process model. The feature model of the machining operation is proposed from the viewpoint of the dimension of a macro cutting tool, the dimension of feed motion, and the number of enveloping constraints. The feature model of the machined shape is also proposed from the viewpoint of the removal volume, the machined surface, and the surface texture. The linkage between both feature models is accomplished by the concept of a working tool. The working tool consists of the swept macro tool, the envelope of the swept macro tool, and the working edge. We proposed the abstract model of the machining process and the abstract model of operation planning which may represent the linear equations. We also pointed out that there are only 15 types of machining operations.
    Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY, 10450052
  • A study on the optimal disassembly process planning for the consumer products based on the evaluation of recyclability and disposability
    Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research(基盤研究(C))
    1997 - 1998
    Satoshi KANAI; Hidetomo TAKAHASHI; Takeshi KISHINAMI
    The purpose of this research is to develop the computer aided planning of an optimum disassembly, shredding and material sorting process for the consumer electric appliances by evaluating both of their recyclability and disposability, and required costs of the process.The results of this research are summarized as follows ;(1) The problem of "an optimum process planning for disassembly shredding and material sorting" was formally defined. The problem is to determine whether and how sequences of disassembly, shredding and material sorting activities can transform a given retired product into forms which satisfy specified retrieval conditions.(2) Three graphs were proposed to formally and uniformly express product and process structures in disassembly, shredding and sorting.(3) The planning of disassembly, shredding and sorting could be recognized as changes of the graph structures and node attributes in graph-based model. Rules and procedures for these changes were discussed.(4) Several case study on the home electric appliances (electric shaver and cleaner) proved that an effectiveness of the proposed strategies for finding an optimum disassembly, shredding and sorting process based on proposed graph-based models, application rules and transforming procedures.From these results, it was confirmed that the proposed computer-aided optimal disassembly process planning for the consumer products based on the evaluation of recyclability and disposability was effective.
    Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, 基盤研究(C), 北海道大学, Principal investigator, Competitive research funding, 09650124
  • A Method of Construction on Virtual World
    Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research
    1995 - 1997
    HIROSE Michitaka; KANAI Satoshi; YOKOI Shigeki; HARASHIMA Hiroshi; KIRIYAMA Takashi; IKEI Yasushi
    Contents development is one of the most important topics in the virtual reality research. The main purpose of group 3 is to develop software tools for generating various virtual worlds and to investigate potentials of the virtual worlds generated. Brief summary of our study is as follows ;
    (1) Development of virtual environment visualization workbench : We developed a multi-screen 3D display to provide researchers high-definition virtual world as a common work bench. In addition, we developed basic software libraries to integrate the experimental software developed by the group members with this display with various existing software tools.
    (2) Basic software to construct simulation world : In this sub group, basic softwares to perform simulation-based world generation are treated. First, we focused on interactive manipulation of virtual objects by hands. Especially, manipulation system that enables user to manipulate virtual objects by both hands are developed. Second, a force display having very high dexterity is developed to check virtual model intuitivety. Third, we developed simulation method to simulate physical law in virtual space. By investigating the behavior of virtual objects when objects collide in grasping and moving by the users, we could simulate behaviors of virtual objects such as collision, slip, and rotation.
    (3) Producing virtual world with various data resources : In this sub group, methods to generate virtual world without 3D geometric model are investigated. In this research, we constructed high quality virtual world using real video images. To implement large-scale walk through system, we developed image synthesis system consisting of image capture system, image management system and also image reconstruction system. (Prof. Hirose) As a theoretical base of this kind of world generation, we developed image reconstruction method to obtain 3D space information by optimizing camera position.
    (4) Generating network based virtual environment using high-speed image network : This sub group is working on "networked"-virtual world. For example, we developed Tele-communication system that provides users very-wide field of view images to support remote collaboration. And we investigated roles of the peripheral visual field in working or communication task using the system.
    Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Priority Areas, University of Tokyo, 07244104
  • 人工現実感を応用した自由曲面CAD/CAMシステムの開発
    科学研究費補助金
    1995 - 1995
    金井 理; 佐々木 哲夫; 岸浪 建史
    本研究は、金型自由曲面CAD/CAMシステムのヒューマンインターフェース部に人工現実感生成技術を導入し、仮想空間内の自由曲面モデル形状や工具モデルを直接操作しながらCAD/CAMシステムへ指示を与えることのできる「仮想クレイモデリングシステム」ならびに「仮想倣い加工システム」の試作と開発を行ない,その応答性およひ操作性を実験的に評価することを目的としている.本年度の研究実績は,以下のようにまとめられる.1.「仮想クレイモデリングシステム」の開発においては,自由曲面の切削による造形作業を仮想空間内で模擬するため,切削工具の運動を認識し,形状モデルからの疑似的な切削抵抗を操作者へ提示可能な,受動形力提示デバイスを用いたシステムを試作した.まず,実験に基づいた切削抵抗予測式の構築法,切削による形状変化をリアルタイムに計算するZ-mapデータに基づく切削シミュレーションアルゴリズム,Z-mapデータから曲面形状モデルへの変換手法を明らかにした.次いで,力提示デバイスを電磁パウダーブレーキを用いて実現し,自由曲面形状モデルの造形が可能であることを実験的に確認した.さらに,仮想空間における工具の位置決め実験を行うことにより,切削抵抗の力フィードバックを与えた場合,形状モデルに対する切削工具モデルの位置決め精度,操作時間を共に向上できることを実験的に検証した.2.「仮想倣い加工システム」の開発においては,仮想空間内において曲面形状モデル表面を倣うことのできる能動形力覚提示デバイスを用いて,曲面切削用の工具経路データを直接操作で能率良く教示できるシステムを試作した.まず、リニアサーボモータユニット3台に力帰還形制御を適用し,高い応答性と剛性を有する能動形力覚提示デバイスを作成した.また,自由曲面形状モデルに対するプローブモデルの高速干渉チェックアルゴリズム,ならびにプローブモデルをモデル上へ高精度に位置決めするための補正アルゴリズムを明らかにした.さらに仮想空間内での倣い作業実験を行い,本システムが制御周期3ms以内,工具経路生成精度±0.1μmなる性能を有しており,曲面切削用NCプログラミングへ十分利用可能であることを確認した.
    文部科学省, 試験研究(B), 北海道大学, Principal investigator, Competitive research funding, 07555359
  • Research on the Flexible Adjustment Cell for Mechanical Assembly
    Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research(一般研究(C))
    1993 - 1994
    Satoshi KANAI; Hidetomo TAKAHASHI
    (1) As the essential device of the flexible adjustment, the micro-impact hummers (MIHs) made by the piezoelectric actuators were newly developed, and were installed into the 2 dimensional NC positioning table. By using this device, the experiments on the automatic micro adjustment of the positional and orientational deviation for the bolt-fastened component were done. The results of the experiments showed that the developed device could stably adjust the position and orientation of the jig-component with the initial deviation of 30 mum and 0.001 rad into the allowable deviation zone of 5 mum and 0.0002 rad.(2) For the purpose on the optimal tolerances synthesis of the mechanical assembly, a computer aided system for the 3D tolerance synthesis system was developed. The assembly was represented by solid model, and dimensional and geometrical tolerances were formulated as a set of inequalities. Differential coordinate transformation and linear programming were used to analyze the dimensional and geometrical tolerance stack-up. The cost data base descried the relation among form featured, tolerance range, machining and set-up costs. Tolerance synthesis was formulated as the combinational optimization problem under the stack-up conditions. Genetic Algorithm was applied to solve these problems. The coding method and genetic operators were discussed. The algorithm was evaluated through the tolerance synthesis for the gear box. It was confirmed that the proposed GA based tolerance synthesis method could find the optimum tolerance allocation plan for a rational period.
    Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, 一般研究(C), 東京工業大学, Principal investigator, Competitive research funding, 05650111
  • Research on Integrated Process Planning System for Assembly
    Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research(一般研究(C))
    1990 - 1991
    Satoshi KANAI; Hidetomo TAKASHASHI
    The purpose of the research is to develop the computer aided system which enables process planners to design suitable assembly cell and assembly system in different phases of process planning of the assembly. The results of the research are summarized as follows ;1. The uniform date model for representing activities concerning with process planning of the assembly, was proposed. The structure of the product and assembling machine, motion of the assembling machine, and ordered relation among various motions of the machines, can be represented by EAR (Entity Attribute Relationship) Model, and was implemented as LISP frame structure.2. The assembly sequence planning system based on the assembly model of the product was developed. The assembly model was represented as the set of solid models of parts and the constraint conditions between mating parts. The system can automatically generate the feasible de-assembling sequence based not only on feasible movement of each part and precedence relation derived from constraint conditions, but also on the interference detection between parts by solid models.3. The design system for the assembling machine was developed. They system enables the process planner to compose machine elements such as motor, air cylinder, bearing, gear etc. based on 3D model to make mechanism, and to simulate motions of the machine based on sequence control diagram and expression processing software.4. The CASE tool to automatically generate the control program for the assembling machine and cell is developed. The tool is applied to the program development for the flexible parts feeding cell which consists of image processing unit, range finder, 6-axis robot and personal computer. The structured analysis of the process was done by using DFD, and the C source code of the program can be semi-automatically generated by referring to the specification and configuration of the sensors and the robot.
    Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, 一般研究(C), 東京工業大学, Principal investigator, Competitive research funding, 02650086
  • Development and Construction of the Expert System for Finishing Operation of dies and Molds.
    Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research
    1989 - 1990
    SAITO Katsumasa; KANAI Satoru; SASAKI Tetsuo; NARAHARA Hiroyuki; MIYOSHI Takashi
    In order to establish an automatic manufacturing system for dies and molds, two problems in the mold industry must primarily be developed. One is an automatic design system. and other is a surface finishing technology for acavity surface of dies and molds. Especially, the cavity surface of plastic mold is still finished by handiwork of a skill machinist.
    In this research project, the knowledge of a mold skilled machinist for mold polishing operation was acquired to develop good performance of an automatic polishing tool, and an expert system to design the polishing process were established.
    The study is summarized as follows :
    1. The polishing properties of a skilled machinist in respect tosurface roughness, stock removal and scratch were obtained and analyzed quantitatively.
    2. An expert system for mold polishing by using the knowledge of skilled machinists was constructed, and the feasibility of the expert system is verified with experiments in die and mold shop.
    3. Finishing experiments were carried out with different kinds of polishing tools, not only by a skilled machinist handiwork, but also by mechanical method by using NC milling machine.
    4. According to the solution of this expert system, milled surface of S55C steel were polished with selected tools and the number of polishing strokes.
    5. Consequently, this expert system was confirmed to be useful for scheduling and determination of the polishing process, and it was verified that the performance of this developed tool were similar to expert's performance of mold machinist.
    Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grant-in-Aid for Developmental Scientific Research, Hokkaido University, 01850029
  • Intelligent Model and Communication for Distributed Automated Manufacturing System
    Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research
    1989 - 1990
    KISHINAMI Takeshi; MORIWAKI T; SUZUKI H; ITO Y; FURUKAWA F; SANAI S
    This report describes the cooperative works for an intelligent model and communication for the distributed automated manufacturing system which was done by ten researchers belonged seven different universitys. The following results were obtained.
    1) In order to analysis the structure of distributed automated manufacturing system, the following items were investigated ;
    -Basic structure of Distributed Automated Manufacturing System
    -Intelligent data structure for product model
    -Communication for the distributed system
    -Recongnition for manufacturing enviroments
    -Control mechanism and information processing for manufacturing process
    2) For constructing the distributed automated manufactring system, it is very important isses to develop the computer model for manufactring process.
    3) An intelligent mechanism for deriving the necessary information for manufacturing operation from the given objective information was proposed based on the object oriented data base.
    4) Data exchange between the distributed manufactring facilities should be done base on the context driven communication mechanism.
    5) The distributed automated manufactring system should have the recongnision function for machining enviroment and geometric shape.
    Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grant-in-Aid for Co-operative Research (A), Hokkaido University, 01302027
  • Development of Automatic Set-Up Equipment for Large Forging and Casting
    Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research
    1988 - 1990
    KISHINAMI T; HAYAKAWA T; YOKOUCHI H; KANAI S; SAITO K; HAKUTA K
    This report describes the Automatic set-up equipment to shorten the machining preparation work for machining of large castings and forgings. The system mainly consists of three modules : the first one is the computer-aided three-dimensional shape measuring system which consists of 5-directional measuring machine installed with a newly developed non-contact distance sensor, and processors provided to transform the measured distance data to coordinates then also to construct netire mesh point data of the object workpiece. The distance sensor is based on an astronomical telescope typed optical system, equiped with laser tube and one dimensional CCD set horizontally on the optical axis. The second is to determine the relative position of the required shape into the workpiece, and the third one is to calculate the NC data for the scribing lines. The proposed software system accepts both the workpiece shape data from the developed measuring system and the geometric model of the required shape from the CAD system. Also it adjusts the position and orientation of the geometric model in the workpiece space, makes the stock removal uniform around the workpiece, and generates NC data for the sribe based on these models. Satisfactory results have been confirmed by some tests.
    Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grant-in-Aid for Developmental Scientific Research (B)., Hokkaido University, 63850027
  • Analysis and Automation of Polishing Motion of a Skilled Machinist by Handwork for Mold and Die
    Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research
    1988 - 1989
    MIYOSHI Takashi; SAITO Katsumasa
    The automated form machining has already been carried out by NC machine tool in manufacturing mold and die, however, the mold cavity surfaces are still polished by a skilled machinist's handwork. The purpose of this paper is to not only study polishing mechanism and properties of a skilled machinist by handwork, but also develop an automated polishing tool based on the analysis of polishing motion and the knowledge acquisition of experts.
    The results obtained are summarized as follows: (1) The surface roughness(R) is exponentially decreased with the increase of the number of polishing operation(N) and can be obtained quantitatively according to the following equation: R = (R_0-Re)exp(-aN) + Re where R_0 is surface roughness before polishing, Re is final surface roughness and a is exponential constant factor. (2) The curve of the stock removal vs the polishing times is expressed approximately with two lines and the intersection of the two lines corresponds to the critical polishing times in which the surface can be almost finished. (3) The developed automated polishing tool which is attached to the spindle of NC machine tool makes it possible to finish the surface like a skilled machinist by handwork. (4) Using new polishing parameter(N/(f/n)) consisting of the three factors of wheel revolution(n), feed rate(f) and polishing times(N), the surface roughness and the stock removal can be dealt with quantitatively regardless of polishing conditions.
    Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grant-in-Aid for General Scientific Research (C), Hokkaido University, 63550093
  • A Study of Geometra Machining Simulator
    Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research
    1988 - 1989
    KISHINAMI T.; TANAKA F.; KANAI S.; SAITO K.
    The machining simulation technique is very important for computer aided manufacturing system and NC data verification. If we can forecast the machining phenomena, for example, cutter collision, cutter removal shape, removed volume and cutting force by using simulation techniques, a more high level computer controlled machining system can be realized. Some research on machining simulation based on conventional geometric modeling techniques such as CSG or Breps have already been done.
    However, these approaches were time consuming and complex because of the massive set operations between workpiece and cutting tool. Difficulty in defining cutter swept volume, and restricted within their specific application. To solve these problems, we introduce the voxel representation of geometric model and logical set operation on voxel space. The machining simulation technique based on the voxel representation of geometric models makes it possible to recognize not only cutter collision but also various status among cutting tool, workpiece and fixturing device, by the uniform data representation and simple logical bitwise operations.
    Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grant-in-Aid for General Scientific Research (C), Hokkaido University, 63550092
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