The Systems Integration Division of the Society of Instrument and Control Engineers held a lecture series from December 23 - 25, 2010 at the Tohoku University Kawauchi Campus. Participating from SDM were Professor Takashi Maeno, Assistant Professor Yasutoshi Makino, masters course students Saki Morishima and Miki Nishio, and SDM Research Institute researchers Konyo, Nakaya and Watanabe. During the series, they presented the latest research into the design of communications robots and human sensory mechanisms. They were able to enjoy a white Christmas in Sendai, actively discussing and debating with colleagues at other universities and corporate researchers while the snow fell.
Nonetheless, "systems integration" in the context of this Society did not go beyond the level of structuring robots and other systems. If anything, we reconfirmed the importance of the approach to systems integration taken by SDM in which we break down systems before integrating, verifying, and validating them.
Presentation by Assistant Professor Yasutoshi Makino
Presentation by Saki Morishima