In early February, Professor Miyake and Lee had the pleasure of hosting a delegation from the Finland Futures Research Center (FFRC) to share knowledge and identify the challenges and our research into the future of Smart Cities. Topics covered included spatial AI, meta AI, metaverse and smart cities, with a focus on how game engine technologies could be the keystone between all of these in terms of creating synthetic data, as well as processing and responding to many input sources….

Read More Read More

Lee presented his paper “Colocation of Physical Avatars: Prototyping a Common Ground” at the the 6th International Conference on ICT Integration in Technical Education. Hosted by the University of Aizuwakamatsu, the conference provided the opportunity to discuss current research topics and trends with researchers from all around the world. No recording is available of the presentation, but the final paper and the presented slides will be shared after publication.

We will welcome guests who are active at the cutting edge of various fields, and will give lectures on the fields and activities they are involved in. After the lecture, we delved into the lecture content in an open discussion format, and the guests’ unique perspectives, approaches, techniques, and philosophies were used as insights into the daily activities and learning of the participants (mainly students majoring in architecture). The aim is to make it useful. In addition, while discussing the current state…

Read More Read More

Toyoda Lab sent a delegate (Lee Kent) to the ICIT IOT and Smart City conference to see the research and meet with our peers in Kyoto. The conference theme was how technology can facilitate future visions of smart cities, and this overlaps significantly with the work we are doing at Toyoda Lab. The presentations were very diverse in topics and quality, and Lee found the experience enriching, having good conversations and exchanging insights with the other conference attendees from all…

Read More Read More

In a dynamic environment where synchronization between the real world and the digital world is required, game engines are considered useful for route searching for agents, and one of their features is the navigation mesh mechanism. In the architecture and geography fields, implementation of static description specifications that include spatial topology information, such as IFC and IndoorGML, is progressing, but they are not fully utilized for route planning. In this research, we examine the possibility of making route searching in real space…

Read More Read More

We will provide an overview of the need for a general-purpose spatial description format called Common Ground, its possible format, directions for collaboration and expansion, and possibilities for industrial implementation. http://doi.org/10.11188/seisankenkyu.74.139

Common Ground has one of its inaugural papers presented at the IEEE Smart Cities Conferences in Bucharest, Romania! The paper ‘Proposal for the Implementation of Spatial Common Ground and Spatial AI using the SSCP (Spatial Simulation-based Cyber-Physical) Model’ details the system architecture that could facilitate the Common Ground vision. The paper was authored by Youichiro Miyake, Keisuke Toyoda, Takashi Kasuya, Akihiko Hyodo, Masashi Seiki. The paper was presented by Youichiro Miyake and Keisuke Toyoda, who also used the opportunity to visit counterparts and build academic…

Read More Read More

The following two subjects were presented from the laboratory. CAADRIA 2023 カンファレンスHP Systematic Review of Organizing The Data Flow of Systems Using Building Information Modeling and Distributed Ledger Technology Authors: 登壇者 和泉 智也（共著：豊田 啓介 As the digitalization in the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) industry has been rapidly progressing, building end users will require more coverage of quality data for their built environment. Despite its obvious need, it is seldom for the building information modeling (BIM) to be distributed for…

Read More Read More