Declared goal of the trip was to strengthen the East Westphalian-Japanese collaboration in the field of scene analysis of assistant systems as well as Human-Machine-Interaction, one of inIT’s research focuses. On his trip professor Röcker visited various institutes, like e.g. Keio University, the Interactive Media Design Lab and the Cybernetics and Reality Engineering Lab of the Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST), the Computational Intelligence Lab and the Control System Lab at Toyota Technical Institute. Besides lectures about the Industry 4.0 topics Augmented and Virtual Reality, Röcker always looked for the professional exchange with the Japanese colleagues, Post-Docs and (PhD-)students. Five interesting weeks with a variety of impressions lie behind the researcher from Lemgo who could notice many similarities among the German and Japanese Industry 4.0 research work: “Over the longer run we are interested in collaborating with a couple of the universities and institutes visited, so that further opportunities for research and teaching could occur”, so Röcker.
Guest Professorship in Japan – Professor Carsten Röcker received JSPS-Bridge Fellowship
(Lemgo, 13.09.2017) inIT Professor Carsten Röcker accepted the invitation of Professor Norimichi Ukita (Tokyo Institute of Technology) and Professor Shin’ichi Konomi (Kyushu University) and spent five weeks of this semester’s non-lecture period in Japan. The BRIDGE Fellowship Program of the German JSPS Alumni Association supported his stay.
During his Fellowship Professor Röcker gave an interview on the Japanese television on the subject IoT standardization.
Professor Carsten Röcker in exchange with the Japanese colleagues and (Post)Docs.