The following technical tours are planned to provide on-site experiences that cannot be realized only at the conference venue by primarily the Industry Group. The tours are offered at low fees thanks to the generous support from the cooperating companies.
Those who wish to participate must register in advance on the Technical/Social Tours registration site, which will be announced shortly. Each tour can accept a limited number of participants, which will be reserved on a first-come-first-served basis. All tours will depart from and return to PACIFICO Yokohama.

NOTE: Registration deadline is 1st July.

Experience of Intelligent Mobility Using Automated Driving and Human-machine Communication Technologies (Sold out)

Date: Tuesday, 11th July 2023
Time: 09:00-19:30
Itinerary:

*Itinerary is subject to change due to a traffic condition.

Honda R&D Co., Ltd. is researching CI (Cooperative Intelligence) that is the artificial intelligence understanding surrounding environment by itself, communicating with its user and surrounding people and realizing cooperative behavior with them.  CI is applied to automated driving vehicles, driver assistance systems and micro-mobility in order to realize evolution of people’s lives and mobility. Various intelligent vehicles using CI will be introduced in this technical visit as follows.

Demonstration 1: Automated driving vehicle in city area  (Experience as a passenger*)
The automated driving car using CI safely goes through congested driving scenes simulating city driving  while cooperating with other traffic participants. It recognizes driving environment including traffic participants and road structure by itself and determines its behavior without relying on predetermined trajectory and high-definition map.

Demonstration 2: Cooperative safety driving assist system  (Experience as a passenger*)
The CI system predicts a risk surrounding an ego car and judges whether a driver overlooks it or not through driver monitoring system.  If the driver doesn’t aware the existence of the risk, the system alerts to the driver through human-machine interfaces and avoid a traffic accident in advance. 

Demonstration 3: Interactive human-like communication between micro-mobility and people (Experience as observation)
The micro-mobility using CI and its user communicate and understand each other‘s intentions and realize human-like interaction. When the user calls the micro-mobility, they determine the appropriate boarding position through mutual communication based on conversation and gesture instructions.

Demonstration 4: utomated driving micro-mobility without using high-definition map (Experience as a driver*)
The micro-mobility using CI can recognize road-structure based on image data from multi-cameras without high-definition map and drive automatically based on user’s intention instructions such as going through or turning at intersection through operating joystick.

*Very large people cannot ride due to the size limitations of vehicles.
 

Explore Hitachi R&D's co-creation activities at the Open Innovation Site established under the Kyōsō-no-Mori initiative

Date : Tuesday, 11th July 2023 
Time : 13:30-18:00
Itinerary:

*Itinerary is subject to change due to a traffic condition.

An open innovation site was established under the Kyōsō-no-Mori initiative, within the grounds of the Central Research Laboratory of Hitachi, Ltd. in Kokubunji City, Tokyo, in 2019.
Here, researchers and designers are working together in symbiosis with the surrounding natural environment of an old-growth forest of the Musashino region and several freshwater springs which feed into the No River, or Nogawa, to drive innovation through co-creation. The tour of the site will introduce co-creation activities together with actual cases and examples of R&D activities for the Green and Digital transformations being pursued by Hitachi, Ltd.

https://www.hitachi.com/rd/open/kyosonomori/index.html

Heavy-duty vehicle test ride at Hino Motors

Date: Wednesday, 12th July 2023
Time: 09:30-19:20
Place: Hino Motors Customer Technical Center, Hamura-city, Tokyo. About 60km away from Congress Center.
Itinerary:

*Itinerary is subject to change due to a traffic condition.

Tour Description:

• Hino Motors, Ltd. is one of leading companies developing heavy-duty vehicles.
• Visitors will be able to take ride on heavy-duty truck and bus.
• Test ride of a bus will take place to experience the following safety systems.
  • Emergency Driving Stop System (EDSS)
  • Pre-Crash Safety system (PCS)
• Test rides on cabins of both large and small trucks driven by Hino Motors’ drivers will also take place to feel the drivability difference.
• Exhibitions of various heavy-duty vehicles are available inside the technical center building.

About Hino Motors, Ltd.: https://www.hino-global.com/

Special Visit to the Field Robotics Demonstrations

Date: Wednesday, 12th July 2023
Time: 10:00-17:00
Itinerary:

*Itinerary is subject to change due to a traffic condition.

Transportation to the field (location; Chiba Prefecture) by private bus trip for about 90 to 120 min. over Tokyo Bay (tunnel and bridge).

The World Congress features a special session dedicated to Advanced Field Robotics, deployed and/or soon to be deployed in Smart Agriculture in Japan. The demonstrations follow the content of the Forum to be held on 10th July on Smart Agriculture, “Technologies and Initiatives in Smart Agriculture and Smart Agricultural Machines in Japanese Market”

There will be an opportunity for a limited number of attendees to participate actively in the demonstrations (as machine operators). Demonstrations will be held on muddy fields, so please wear clothes and shoes that can get dirty. The fee includes the expenses of transportation by bus and a Lunch box.

Demonstrators;  (alphabetical order)  

• ISEKI & CO., LTD.  (https://www.iseki.co.jp/english/)
• KUBOTA Corporation  (https://www.kubota.com/)
• National Agriculture and Food Research Organization (NARO)  (https://www.naro.go.jp/english/index.html)
• Suzuki Motor Corporation (https://www.globalsuzuki.com/)
• YANMAR AGRIBUSINESS CO., LTD. (https://www.yanmar.com/global/)

Remark: The registration deadline is 1st July 2023 due to security checks.

• Due to stringent security reasons, please note that organizer retains the right to refuse participation in the tour after conducting the necessary checks.
• Japanese resident participants will be asked to provide family name, first name, nationality, company name, and date and place of birth.
• Non-Japanese resident participants must provide family name, first name, nationality, company name, date and place of birth, Passport number, and Passport expiry date.

NOTE: Registration deadline is 1st July.