Hirohiko Arai
Low-Formability-Materials Processing Group
Advanced Manufacturing Research Institute
National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
AIST Tsukuba East
1-2-1 Namiki, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8564, Japan
phone: 81-29-861-7088 fax: 81-29-861-7167 Email: 
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Hirohiko Arai received the B.E. and Ph.D. degrees in measurement and control engineering from the University of Tokyo in 1982 and 1993, respectively. From 1982 to 1984, he worked for Honda Engineering Co., Saitama, Japan. He joined the Mechanical Engineering Laboratory, AIST-MITI, Tsukuba, Japan, in 1984. From 2001 to 2003, he was the leader of the Skill and Dynamics Research Group, Intelligent Systems Research Institute, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST). From 2003 to 2009, he was a Senior Researcher at Intelligent Systems Research Institute, AIST. Currently he is a Senior Researcher at Low-Formability-Materials Processing Group, Advanced Manufacturing Research Institute, AIST. His research interests include robotic metal spinning, dynamic control of manipulators, control of nonholonomic systems, and power assist systems.
He served as an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation (currently, IEEE Trans. on Robotics) from 2000 to 2003, and as a Senior Editor from 2003 to 2008.
since Apr. 27, 2005