Super mechano-systems project

The super mechano-system (SMS) project is the Grand-in-Aid for COE Research Project, which started is April 1997 at the Tokyo Institute of Technology for the Creation of New Functionality by the Fusion of Control and Mechanisms, and is supported by the Ministry of Education, Sciences, Sports and Culture. The project aims to establish a new discipline by the functional integration of advanced technologies in mechanisms and control. This paper briefly describes the SMS project.