Center Overview
The Open Research Center for the Super-Mature Society, established within the Keio Advanced Research Centers (KARC) at Keio University, is a consortium-type open research laboratory. It aims to create new social systems for the "super-mature society"—a challenge Japan is facing ahead of the rest of the world—by integrating the humanities and sciences of Keio University. Its core is industry-academia collaborative research with multiple companies, such as Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT), and it integrates with a wide range of domestic and international activities.
The Open Research Center brings together members from Keio University and multiple companies to jointly research the problems of a "super-mature society." Based on unrestricted field technologies such as science and technology, sociology, policy, economics, and medical sciences, and with ICT technology as its core. Research topics are selected through both top-down and open call processes, allowing for diverse approaches to keywords such as labor shortages, an aging population, aging infrastructure, disasters, population concentration, energy, food, growth, and safety and security. Collaborative research on these themes will be conducted with a five-year target, and the necessary research expenses will be borne by the consortium member companies.
Keywords and Main Research Themes
Super-mature society, ICT, ubiquitous, robot, big data
Fiscal Year 2020 Business Plan
■ Continuing Activities from FY2019: Background, Rationale, and Goals
Since 2019, we have been working to extend the North American smart society testbed in Chattanooga (UTC: University of Tennessee at Chattanooga) to the K2 Campus.
We are also proceeding with plans to build a 5G wireless access testbed on the K2 Campus, in collaboration with NEC.
By continuing these efforts, we aim to establish Keio as a testbed COE (Center of Excellence) in 2020. Using this as a key element, we want to become a research center with high visibility to society.
Furthermore, we are promoting collaboration with the University of Tokyo, encouraging their participation in Keio's testbed to enhance the functions of the Open Research Lab.
■ New Activity Goals and Content for FY2020, and Background for Implementation
Accelerate the Open Research Lab.
Collaboration with RIKEN began in 2019, and in consultation with the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications and NICT, we aim to launch a national-level open consortium in which Keio University will participate as this center.
Fiscal Year 2019 Business Report
■ Implementation Details for the Fiscal Year Business Plan, Research Results, and Degree of Achievement
The following describes the research that was accelerated in FY2019.
(1) Interdisciplinary Fusion of Humanities and Sciences
We invited Professor Tatsuhiko Yamamoto of the Keio University Law School to conduct industry-academia collaborative research on the important future issue of data utilization and its associated problems. This project was realized through a networking event attended by over 30 people from the corporate sector, including the President of NTT East and the Vice President of NTT's holding company research laboratories.
(2) International Collaboration
In collaboration with US universities centered around Colorado (including the University of Texas at Dallas), we conducted a dynamic experiment that overcame the distance of virtual space using computer vision and networks. Specifically, we used VR to share a virtual space between two locations in Japan and the US, where real people were projected from three different locations to participate. We conducted an experiment and demonstration of a tour of a botanical garden, connecting the US and Japan with a 100 Gbps optical link.
(3) Human Resource Development
Continuing from last year, we invited two corporate researchers on double appointments to supervise doctoral students in the graduate school. To reiterate, they have been granted graduate school and doctoral supervision qualifications by the Graduate School of Science and Technology, thereby contributing to education.
Achievements in Social Contribution, including Published Papers, Conference Presentations, and Events
Number of papers: 1
[Main Paper]
Electrical/Optical Hybrid-switching Data Center Network Control with Hadoop
Akira YAMASHITA, Yukihiro IMAKIIRE, Satoru OKAMOTO, Naoaki YAMANAKA,
IEICE Transactions on Communications (Japaneses Edition),Vol.J102-B, No.4, Page.310-318 [April/2019]
Number of international conferences: 15
[Main Presentations]
5G Network Application : Autonomous driving vehicle using dynamic migrated edge computer function
Naoaki Yamanaka, Satoru Okamoto, Goki Yamamoto, Takayuki Muranaka, Andrea Fumagalli
2019 International Symposium for Advanced Computing and Information Technology (ISACIT 2019), No.14 [August/2019]
Autonomous driving vehicle controlling network using dynamic migrated edge computer function
Naoaki Yamanaka, Goki Yamamoto, Satoru Okamoto, Takayuki Muranaka, Andrea Fumagalli
20th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON 2019), No.We.E3.2 [July/2019]
Number of domestic workshops: 12
Special Achievements through Center Activities
International collaboration is well underway. In collaboration with US universities centered around Colorado (including the University of Texas at Dallas), we conducted a dynamic experiment that overcame the distance of virtual space using computer vision and networks. Specifically, we used VR to share a virtual space between two locations in Japan and the US, where real people were projected from three different locations to participate. We conducted an experiment and demonstration of a tour of a botanical garden, connecting the US and Japan with a 100 Gbps optical link.
Members
Project Members
Principal Investigator
Naoaki Yamanaka
ProfessorDepartment of Information and Computer Science, Faculty of Science and TechnologyTomoaki Ohtsuki
ProfessorDepartment of Information and Computer Science, Faculty of Science and Technology