Laboratory Overview
Nagai Laboratory is an advanced research laboratory in the Department of Mechanical Systems Engineering at Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology. It is founded in 1978 to study and explore the area of maglev and automobile systems. Over the years, Nagai Laboratory has developed in reputation and broadened in its research scope.
The laboratory now includes 3 faculty
members, 3 researchers, 2 administrative staffs, and 19 graduate students involved in various research projects, several of which are collaborations with other departments, universities and companies. The research here is sponsored by many of sources of funding. In return, Nagai Laboratory has also implemented
a crucial impact on industrial sector, with many alumni playing fundamental roles in a number of preeminent high technology companies.
The principle research direction here is aiming at both environmental-friendly and human-friendly vehicle design to accommodate the current social demands. Our research studies position on two underlying academic disciplines of
Mechanical engineering that deals with mechanism and dynamics of machinery, and
Control engineering that realizes the objective performance via mechatronics technology.
Both form the research basis of vehicle dynamics and control. Based upon this research field, our research includes, for example, safe vehicles to humans, development of low emission vehicles, solutions to problems associated with high-speed railway vehicles, and development of comfortable transportation with low vibration noises.
In recent years, we are also focusing on research studies on Human-Machine Interface towards the forthcoming aging and information-driven society.
