FANUC FA & Robot Foundation
2006 Award Ceremony and Technical Exchange Meeting
Original Paper Award Ceremony
FANUC FA and Robot Foundation was established in 1989 with its fund provided by FANUC, to help advance the factory automation (FA) and industrial robot technologies. The foundation's Original Paper Award recognizes authors of creative research papers of industrial merits in the FA and industrial robot fields. The award is selected by the Foundation's Paper Award Screening Committee out of the research papers recommended by five academic societies relating to FA and industrial robots.
The fifth Award Ceremony and Technical Exchange Meeting took place on March 9th, 2007 at Hotel Okura in Tokyo. The Board of Directors and Councilors Meetings, which preceded the ceremony, were honored with greetings from Mr. Taizo Takahashi, Director, Industrial Machinery Division, Manufacturing Industries Bureau of Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI).
The Award Ceremony was then opened by Dr. Masaru Sugiura, Chairman of the Foundation, and honored with greetings from Mr. Shunichi Uchiyama, Director-General for Manufacturing Industries Policy of METI. He commented, "The Japanese government is making a concerted effort to invigorate economic growth by promoting strategic initiatives focusing on innovation. There is a great expectation for robots. We hope that the winners of the Original Paper Award will succeed in commercializing the results of the research and contribute to the development of the industry."
Then, Prof. Fumio Harashima, President of Tokyo Denki University and Chief of the Paper Award Screening Committee of the Foundation reported on the screening process and announced the winners. Dr. Sugiura presented the awards and honorarium to the authors of the 4 award-winning papers.
FANUC's Honorary Chairman Dr. S. Inaba, founder of the foundation, presented each award winner with a sterling silver medal inscribed with the name of the winner and his words "There is a history of technology, but for engineers, there is no past. There is only creation." The Technological Exchange Meeting was then opened by Prof. Emeritus Dr. Takeo Nakagawa of the University of Tokyo and President of FINETECH CO., LTD. who proposed a toast. Prof. Nakagawa commented, "FANUC has a large global market share in robots and CNCs. FANUC's success is based on their consistent efforts in promoting automation. I believe this demonstrates a model for the Japanese manufacturing."
Chairman Dr. Sugiura of the Foundation
Dr. S. Inaba presenting a medal
Awarded Papers
| Original Paper Award (4 Papers) | |
|---|---|
| TITLE / Published in | AUTHORS (* Representative of authors) |
| Miniaturization of a one-axis-controlled magnetic bearing Vol. 29, No.2 pp208-pp218, 2005 Precision Engineering |
Jiro Kuroki / Honda R&D Co.,Ltd * Tadahiko Shinshi / Tokyo Institude of Technology Lichuan Li / Xi`an Jiaotong University Akira Shimokohbe / Tokyo Institute of Technology |
| A Controller Design Method of Decentralized Control System Vol.126 No.6 pp630-pp638, 2006 IEEJ Trans.IA |
* Toshiaki Tsuji / Tokyo University of Science Hiroaki Nishi / Keio University Kouhei Ohnishi / Keio University |
| Automatic Flatness Control of Cold Rolling Mill Vol.123 No.10 pp1213-pp1218 IEEJ Transactions on Industry Applications, Series D |
* Yoshiharu Anbe / ANBE SMT CO.,Ltd Kunio Sekiguchi / TOSHIBA MITSUBISHI-ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION |
| Robotic Metal Spinning - Shear Spinning Using Force Feedback Control - Vol.22, No.6, pp798-pp805, 2004 Journal of the Robotics Society of Japan |
* Hirohiko Arai / National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology |
(March 2007)
