Professor Takadama Receives SICE Technology Award

30 Sep. 2025

The vision-based navigation technology developed by Professor Keiki Takadama at the Information Technology Center, The University of Tokyo, in collaboration with the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and others, has received the FY 2025 Technology Award from the Society of Instrument and Control Engineers (SICE), Japan.
The Technology Award is presented to up to five technologies that have produced remarkable results and is selected from all technologies released within the past five years.
This technology was installed on JAXA’s SLIM (Smart Lander for Investigating Moon) lunar lander and enabled the world’s first pinpoint lunar landing on January 20, 2024.

Award-Winning Title:

Realization of SLIM Pinpoint lunar landing by Vision-based
Navigation and High precision guidance and control technologies

Award winners:

Sakai, S., SawaiS., Fukuda, S., Ueda, S., Ito, T., Yokota, K., Ishida, T., Kariya, Ueno, S. (JAXA), Higuchi, T. (Yokohama National University), K., Kamata, H. (Meiji University), Takadama, K. (The University of Tokyo), Kojima, H. (Tokyo Metropolitan University)

Society of Instrument and Control Engineers (SICE), Japan

Commemorative photo of the recipients of the SICE Technology Award (Professor Takadama is second from the right), the commemorative plaque and the certificate.