Lab orientation/tour for 3rd-year undergraduate students, 2024

We will conduct a laboratory orientation for third-year undergraduate students as per the following schedule:

Location: 11-12, IST Building 11th floor
Date and Time: Oct 18 (Fri) at 13:00-, 14:00-
(Please try to join us at an earlier time if possible. We may not conduct the session after 14:00 if there are no participants.)

Visits (tours) to the lab are also possible. The available time slots are as follows:

Location: ICN Lab., IST Building 11th floor
Date and Time: Students will definitely be available during the following hours.
(For Wednesdays and Thursdays, please refrain from visiting before the end of the experiment; School of Engineering Timetable)
- Oct 16 (Wed) after the end of the experiment, until 18:00
- Oct 17 (Thu) after the end of the experiment, until 18:00
- Oct 21 (Mon) 16:30-18:00

If the above times are not suitable, please contact (or visit) us directly.

Introduction of Media Network Course for Freshmen (Sep. 2024)

On Monday, September 30th, an introductory session for freshmen was held. Students from our research laboratory also participated as representatives of the Media Network Course. We provided an overview of the course, explained the research laboratory through panel presentations, and demonstrated equipment to the freshmen.
Here shows contents of demonstration exhibit.

Real-time display of Flightradar24 using Raspberry Pi and software wireless device (aircraft position tracking)
Voice pitch shift using FPGA board
Chapit, a voice recognition robot from Raytron

Participation of Fourth-Year Students in the 27th PARTHENON Workshop

Morikawa, Sakaki, and Hori, fourth-year undergraduate students, participated in the 27th PARTHENON Workshop, organized by the PARTHENON Society, Non-Profit Organization, held at
the Tokyo Campus, the Institute for Small Business Management and Technology (Organization for Small & Medium Enterprises and Regional Innovation) from Thursday, August 29 to Saturday, August 31 (Tsutsui also participated). They implemented their own designed systems on the DE10-Lite platform using the hardware description language NSL and the CPU they designed with it.

Temporary suspension of services due to planned power outage (Aug 31 – Sep 2, 2024)

A planned power outage will be conducted at Hokkaido University’s Sapporo Campus on Sunday, September 1st, from 8:00 AM to 6:00 PM. As a result, all lab services will be suspended
from 1:00 PM on Saturday, August 31st, until 10:00 AM on Monday, September 2nd.
The service suspension period may vary, and some services might be running slightly, or they might not be running at all.

Research Presentations by Mr. Chen and Mr. Ishisaki at the BCT Workshop

Mr. Chen and Mr. Ishisaki presented their research achievements at the BCT Workshop, which was held at Muroran Institute of Technology on July 26.

Yuito Ishisaki, Kyotaro Kunii, Hiroshi Tsutsui, Takeo Ohgane, “An Evaluation of Communication Quality and Line-of-Sight Impact on LoRa Wireless Communication Using Radio Measurement Vehicle in Sapporo Suburbs,” ITE Technical Report, Vol. 48, No. 23, pp. 8-11, BCT2024-53, 26-26 Jul. 2024 (in Japanese). [URL]
Yuanyou Chen, Hiroshi Tsutsui, Takeo Ohgane, “Performance Evaluation of Reservoir Computing Based MIMO-OFDM Detection with Precoders,” ITE Technical Report, Vol. 48, No. 23, pp. 12-15, BCT2024-54, 26-26 Jul. 2024 (in Japanese). [URL]

This workshop was held with the support of Muroran Institute of Technology and the Center for Computer Science (CCS), Muroran Institute of Technology. Before the lunch break, there was a presentation titled “Introduction of Muroran Institute of Technology” by Professor Kaoru Ohta, CCS Director.

“Campus Clean Day” 2024

We participated in the Campus Clean-up Day held at Hokkaido University on Wednesday, May 15.

Lab tour for 2nd-year undergraduate students 2024

On April 16th, we held a lab tour for second-year undergraduate students as part of their class. Professor Tsutsui introduced our laboratory, and demonstrated image processing using an FPGA board and speech phrase recognition with a communication robot named Chapit.

2024 Farewell party

On Monday, March 18, we held a farewell party for Mr. Kunii who will graduate this year, and Mr. John who will move to another laboratory.
We wish them both the best of luck in their new positions!

Introduction of Media Network Course for Freshmen (Feb. 2024)

On Thursday, February 8th, an introductory session for freshmen was held. Students from our research laboratory also participated as representatives of the Media Network Course. We provided an overview of the course, explained the research laboratory through panel presentations, and demonstrated equipment to the freshmen.