In the field of architecture, about half of domestic plantation forests have reached the main cutting stage, so the construction of medium- and high-rise buildings is being studied, and the solution to the problem of building stock due to the declining birthrate and aging population is required. An important issue for the spread of wooden buildings is the improvement of seismic performance.
JAXA is studying dual design engineering as a methodology for simultaneously optimizing different fields. By applying it to “buildings” and “seismic waves,” we can design wooden buildings that can withstand 100% of various seismic waves. Tried. This study will promote the spread of wooden buildings, and it can be expected that Japan's forestry and forestry will become a sustainable growth industry.

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Robotic systems in which robots perform the tasks involving interaction with environments or human require not only successfully controlled tasks but also safe interaction. Force control has a vital role in these robotic systems to realize the fine human interaction. The high performance force sensation is greatly essential for force control to achieve the successful executions and safe interactions because the performance of the force control system is dependent on the accuracy of the force sensation. In order to achieve the high performance force sensation, the wideband force sensing is absolutely necessary to be attained. Therefore, this paper introduces the wideband sensor-less force control approach to realize the fine human interaction.

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Robots capable of gentle contact with humans are required to achieve safe human-robot interaction and cooperation, crucial to accomplishing the SDG 9. Geared motors are a good candidate for the development of such a robot. However, gears require oil for lubrication, and this oil may leak, causing serious environmental hazards for humans nearby. Mounting oil seals prevents the leaking problem, but greatly increases friction in the robot actuator mechanism, which induces stick-slip on low velocities and severely degrades its performance. This paper proposes a control-based solution for the stick-slip phenomenon on such actuators that does not require any modification on mechanical components. The proposed stick-slip compensation algorithm achieves smooth motion on oil-seal-mounted geared motors, establishing a step forward to the development of robot actuators for safe human-robot interaction.

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Engine-type tillers are used in small and medium-sized farms， however their structure makes it difficult for workers with low skills，weak women，and elderly people. This paper proposes an electric power tiller model that expresses the vertical movement of the handle by the pitching of the car body. Proposed method well realize to improve handling by deterren

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In recent years, due to the population explosion on Earth, the expanding globalization of resilient infrastructure is necessary. In order to develop resilient infrastructure quickly and safely, the trend of industrial robots replacing people in construction is being widely applied. To be able to apply the robot widely, low-cost robots are an outstanding solution. However, low-cost robots have many problems in control, so for robots to operate safely and effectively with humans, it is necessary to suppress vibration when robots operate. Therefore, this paper proposes a vibration control method for low-cost robots that aims at the wide application of robots. The topic is in line with goal 9 of Sustainable Development Goals: “Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation”.

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In recent years, it has been demanding that expanding sustainable industrialization and inno- vation from the background of problems such an aging society with a declining birthrate. For such problems, labor-saving by robots as well as applying human supported robots are essential, and human interaction robot is required that is capable of interaction with the various environment. This paper proposes a new force control technique that realizes stable contact and the robustness of environmental variations.

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This paper presents load-side acceleration control for human-interactive robot actuators mod- eled as 2-inertia resonant systems. Altough conventional acceleration control induces mechanical resonant vibration, the load-side acceleration control has fine control capability even where mechanical resonance occurs. The control concept, structure, and effectiveness are presented in this paper.

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In this article, we aimed at a building and managing scheme for the social service systems in Society 5.0. In addition to “how to build a system”, we claimed that more important is “how to manage it” in response to social changes. A system is not a single system, but a combination of several systems to realize various services in various situations. In a complex of a social service system, it is first important to describe and analyze its structure to realize and evolve the functions in the future. Then, we showed the framework of the system which bears the proposed function and the concept for the service system construction and management. In the framework using this conceptual model, social agreements are collected as abstract contracts (Abstract Contracts: AC), and the element systems that make up the SoS are linked and validated based on the AC. A system called ABS2MS is used to propose an architectural description consisting of five layers: social/project business/usage/function/implementation, which is indispensable for manage social systems based on that architecture. ABS2MS plays an important role in its management and governance. Furthermore, in order to create a new CS, it is necessary to play a role in vision creation, short-term goal setting, social consensus building, and evaluation index determination. This will be handled by the Foresight Lab.

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In the age of SoS (System of Systems), it has become necessary to manage not only system development but also evolution as SoS. Today's efforts should be made in order to embody the evolution of SoS, taking a comprehensive look at the progress of systems and information technology, following the concept of transition management that has been proposed and practiced in Europe as a methodology for social innovation in a mature society. Present paper will discuss the issues and their social significance,

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Since a socio-technical system can be thought as a large and complex system of systems (SoS), it may be difficult to manage the whole SoS because of operational and managerial independence of constituent systems. In this paper an architecture-based management system for SoS is proposed.

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We are now in a period when we should consider “science and technology” as a future social strategy, not only from the technical aspect, but also from the “society where people live together (Community)” This report is based on the above-mentioned problem awareness, and it is desirable for people to live together based on multifaceted perspectives across the literature and based on the results of attitude surveys conducted by the author in Japan and the United States in March 2019. The aim is to build a project management system for creating a future society.

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Grid square statistics have been developed since the 1960s in Japan and are widely used for dissem-ination of official statistics. In this talk, we introduce grid square statistics and their compatible extension, which are named as world grid square statistics. We show some case studies on grid square statistics and explain a design workshop program for developing its use case and application software. Finally, we address challenges for con-vergent research that we face when we use, produce, integrate, and synthesize grid square statistics.

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For the purpose of further enhancing the utilization of statistical data, we have been providing statistical data by Linked Open Data (LOD), which is said to be the best in Open Data, in 2016.
This paper introduces the design, usage, and benefits of the Linked Open Statistical Data (LOSD) in Japan.

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National Statistics Center has started the initiative in promoting statistical literacy with a framework including a series of 3 activities since 2018. These activities are developing and disseminating SSDSE (Standardized Statistical Data Set for Education), preparing educational materials using the SSDSE, and holding an annual data analysis competition which also uses the SSDSE. This framework has potential to promote the use of official statistics, to make chances discovering interests in data analysis, and to rise positive attitudes to learn.

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The Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications Statistics Research Institute conducts various trainings in response to requests from local governments. This time, I will introduce the efforts of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications to improve statistical literacy and develop statistical human resources. In addition, we will report on the issues found from there.

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Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency(JAXA) has been actively participating to the Com-mittee of Earth Observation Satellites (CEOS), intergovernmental Group on Earth Observations (GEO) and UN Working Group on Geospatial Information (WGGI) to study applicability of satellite Earth observation data and global data sets to SDG indicator generation. This article report on JAXA's international activities for SDGs and use case study of satellite Earth observation data and global data sets for SDG indicators.

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Information system is a social system in which technology and information interact with hu-man activities. In order to obtain useful knowledge about such a system, it is important to understand mech-anisms by which social phenomena occur. In the Critical Realism(CR), the real world is understood as a three-layer structure, and then mechanisms that cause the phenomenon is explored. In this research, we will consider the mechanism exploration by using CR.

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Simulation with agent-based models are used as a method of information systems research. The validity of agent-based models has the perspective which is different from those of traditional simulation approach, and many claims and methods are have been proposed. This paper will summarize them and tries to investigate their effectiveness.

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Information Geometry has been advocated by Shun-ichi Amari in early 1980s, which provides a geometric insight for understanding statistical ideas such as information, sufficiency and efficiency. Furthermore, it is closely connected with almost all of areas in mathematical sciences including information, statistical, physical, biological and brain sciences. One of the most characteristic of information geometry is in a dualistic pair of e-connection and m-connection in the space of all probability density functions, which can be viewed as a Riemannian space with a metric tensor derived by the Fisher information matrix. Surprisingly, the essential theorem can reduce to the Pythagorean theorem developed in the ancient Greek era, which provides a view for the interplay between a statistical model and estimation expanding a Pythagorean foliation in the probability density function space. Finally, we have a review for the present address and future directions in information geometry.

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An along-track stereo observation in the same orbit has been promoted in Japanese earth observa-tion satellites. It started with the satellite sensor JERS-1/OPS launched in 1992, followed by Terra/ASTER launched in 1999 and ALOS/PRISM launched in 2006. By continuous along-track stereo observation in long period, the multiple stereo data have been acquired globally. The global digital topographic model is produced by advanced automatic processing to huge amount of the stereo data. This global topographic model is used in evaluation of climate change, disaster prevention, and resource exploration at global or local scale on any areas on the earth.

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The Research into Artifacts, Center for Engineering of the University of Tokyo is working on the social dissemination of artifacts of next-generation. In this talk, the problem of how to balance the value creation of artifacts including products and services and the social acceptability that becomes a problem when implementing it in society are mentioned, and the approach to the problem is discussed.

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This document describes several topics on research into artifact from the perspective of deep learning. We first introduce the high-dimensional science proposed by Maruyama. Then, we explain the current research on model-based and model-free reinforcement learning, its integration, and world models. Then we bring the discussion by Yoshikawa about the academic domains and design. All the discussion is based on how the phenomenon is models either by a large number of parameters, or a small number of parameters which human can understand. Finally we discuss how the large-parameter models can be used in our society.

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Along with the development of information technology, information is separated off from an artifact, which was originally embodied into its artifact. Such a separation can bring about various benefit for us, whereas it can have negative effects like security issues. We newly define it as “Artifact dilemma”. This phenomenon is a typical example of “modern evil”, which is mentioned in artifactual engineering, and must be solved in order for artifacts to nicely cope with humans and societies especially in current digitalization. In this article, we formally proposed the concept of artifact dilemma and discuss its theoretical framework.

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In this intensive course, which has been held for three years since 2016, students began with learning social technology, use / maintenance, measurement, manufacturing, design, function, and service. These are viewpoints of synthesis-oriented engineering. Next, they worked on problem-solving projectbased exercises using these points of view. Each section in the exercise was devised so that they can investigate unintentional problems that artifacts can cause in interaction with other artifacts, humans, and society. After the exercises, students deepened their understanding of synthesis-oriented engineering through review of general discussion and self-evaluation. Questionnaire results showed learning effect and degree of understanding about each viewpoint.

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To consider artifacts that would be accepted by people and society, it is important to have perspectives of what is not acceptable. Is it appropriate to deal unacceptability as a problem of a variety of values? Artifacts may not be accepted due to cultural, social, industrial structures, and policy differences. This presentation will paradoxically discuss what is considered acceptable by discussing the reasons and structures that are not acceptable.

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