Masahiro Sekimoto

Suguru Arimoto, Morio Yoshida, Masahiro Sekimoto, and Kenji Tahara,
"Modeling and control of 2-D grasping of an object with arbitrary shape under rolling contact,"
SICE Journal of Control, Measurement, and System Integration, Vol.2, No.6, pp.379-386, 2009.
Suguru Arimoto, Morio Yoshida, Masahiro Sekimoto, and Kenji Tahara,
"A Riemannian-geometry approach for control of robotic systems under constraints,"
SICE Journal of Control, Measurement, and System Integration, Vol.2, No.2, pp.107-116, 2009.
Kenji Tahara, Suguru Arimoto, Masahiro Sekimoto, and Zhi-Wei Luo,
"On control of reaching movements for musculo-skeletal redundant arm model,"
Applied Bionics and Biomechanics, Vol.6, No.1, pp.57-72, 2009.
Suguru Arimoto, Morio Yoshida, Masahiro Sekimoto, and Kenji Tahara,
"A Riemannian-geometry approach for modeling and control of dynamics of object manipulation under constraints,"
Journal of Robotics, Vol.2009, 892801, 2009. (doi:10.1155/2009/892801)
Suguru Arimoto, Masahiro Sekimoto, and Sadao Kawamura,
"Task-space iterative learning for redundant robotic systems: Existence of a task-space control and convergence of learning,"
SICE Journal of Control, Measurement, and System Integration, Vol.1, No.4, pp.312-319, 2008.
Masahiro Sekimoto, Suguru Arimoto, Shun Umesao, Tamaki Torii, and Hiroe Hashiguchi,
"Iterative learning control in task-space for robots with redundant joints,"
Journal of the Robotics Society of Japan, Vol.25, No.6, pp.921-929, 2007. (in Japanese)
Masahiro Sekimoto and Suguru Arimoto,
"Experimental study on control method for robot arms with redundant joints based upon virtual spring-damper hypothesis,"
Journal of the Robotics Society of Japan, Vol.25, No.5, pp.785-791, 2007. (in Japanese)
Suguru Arimoto and Masahiro Sekimoto,
"Can Newtonian mechanics aid in the development of brain science?: A challenge to Bernstein's degree-of-freedom problem,"
J. L. Wu, K. Ito, S. Tobimatsu, T. Nishida, and H. Fukuyama, editors, Complex Medical Engineering, pp.573-593, Springer, Japan, 2006.
Suguru Arimoto and Masahiro Sekimoto,
"Natural resolution of ill-posed inverse kinematics for redundant robots: A challenge to Bernstein's Degrees-of-freedom problem,"
Journal of Robotics and Mechatronics, Vol.18, No.5, pp.651-660, 2006.
Ji-Hun Bae, Suguru Arimoto, Masahiro Sekimoto, and Ryuta Ozawa,
"Dexterity and versatility in pinching motion of robot fingers with multi-degrees of freedom,"
Advanced Robotics, Vol.20, No.2, pp.137-163, 2006.
Masahiro Sekimoto and Suguru Arimoto,
"A natural redundancy-resolution for 3-D multi-joint reaching under the gravity effect,"
Journal of Robotic Systems, Vol.22, No.11, pp.607-623, 2005.
Suguru Arimoto, Hiroe Hashiguchi, Masahiro Sekimoto, and Ryuta Ozawa,
"Generation of natural motions for redundant multi-joint systems: A differential-geometric approach based upon the principle of least actions,"
Journal of Robotic Systems, Vol.22, No.11, pp.583-605, 2005.
Suguru Arimoto, Masahiro Sekimoto, and Ryuta Ozawa,
"A challenge to Bernstein's degrees-of-freedom problem in both cases of human and robotic multi-joint movements,"
IEICE Transactions on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications, and Computer Sciences, Vol. E88-A, No.10, pp.2484-2495, 2005.
Suguru Arimoto, Masahiro Sekimoto, Hiroe Hashiguchi, and Ryuta Ozawa,
"Natural resolution of ill-posedness of inverse kinematics for redundant robots: A challenge to Bernstein's degrees-of-freedom problem,"
Advanced Robotics, Vol.19, No.4, pp.401-434, 2005.
(The Robotics Society of Japan 2007 Best Paper Award)

Invited Talk

International Conf. Paper

Takashi Mitsuda, Sadao Kawamura, Mitsunori Uemura, and Masahiro Sekimoto,
"Role of bi-articular muscles in linearized joint kinematics,"
Proc. of the 3rd International Symposium on Mobiligence, pp.403-408, Awaji Yumebutai International Conference Center, Hyogo, Japan, Nov. 19-21, 2009.
Sadao Kawamura, Yuuji Hayashi, Takashi Mitsuda, Mitsunori Uemura, Masahiro Sekimoto, and Tadao Isaka,
"Stability conditions of feedback robot motion control based on linear transformation from vision to motion,"
Proc. of the 3rd International Symposium on Mobiligence, pp.387-392, Awaji Yumebutai International Conference Center, Hyogo, Japan, Nov. 19-21, 2009.
Masahiro Sekimoto, Sadao Kawamura, Tomoya Ishitsubo, Shinsuke Akizuki, and Masayuki Mizuno,
"Basis-motion torque composition approach: Generation of feedforward inputs for control of multi-joint robots,"
Proc. of the 2009 IEEE/RSJ Int. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS2009), pp.3127-3132, St. Louis, MO, USA, Oct. 11-15, 2009.
Masahiro Sekimoto, Suguru Arimoto, and Sadao Kawamura,
"Task-space iterative learning for redundant robots: Simultaneous acquirements of desired motion and force trajectories under constraints,"
Preprints of the 9th International IFAC Symposium on Robot Control (SYROCO2009), pp.613-618, Gifu, Japan, Sept. 9-12, 2009.
Suguru Arimoto, Morio Yoshida, Masahiro Sekimoto, Kenji Tahara, and Ji-Hun Bae,
"Modeling and control for 2-D grasping of an object with arbitrary shape under rolling contact,"
Preprints of the 9th International IFAC Symposium on Robot Control (SYROCO2009), pp.517-522, Gifu, Japan, Sept. 9-12, 2009.
Masahiro Sekimoto, Suguru Arimoto, Boris I. Prilutsky, Tadao Isaka, and Sadao Kawamura,
"Observation of human multi-joint arm movement from the viewpoint of a Riemannian distance,"
Proc. of the ICROS-SICE International Joint Conference 2009 (ICCAS-SICE2009), pp.2664-2669, Fukuoka, Japan, Aug. 18-21, 2009.
Masahiro Sekimoto, Sadao Kawamura, Tomoya Ishitsubo, Shinsuke Akizuki, and Masayuki Mizuno,
"Posture control of a multi-joint robot based on composition of feedforward joint-torques acquired by iterative learning,"
Proc. of the ICROS-SICE International Joint Conference 2009 (ICCAS-SICE2009), pp.3094-3099, Fukuoka, Japan, Aug. 18-21, 2009.
Takahiro Wada, Toyokazu Takeuchi, Masahiro Sekimoto, Yuuki Shiba, and Suguru Arimoto,
"Evaluation of gait with trans-femoral prosthesis based on Riemannian distance,"
Proc. of the 2009 IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics and Automation (ICMA2009), pp.1021-1026, Changchun, China, Aug. 9-12, 2009.
Suguru Arimoto, Morio Yoshida, Masahiro Sekimoto, and Kenji Tahara,
"A Riemannian-geometry approach for dynamics and control of object manipulation under constraints,"
Proc. of the 2009 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA2009), pp.1683-1690, Kobe, Japan, May 12-17 2009.
Masahiro Sekimoto, Suguru Arimoto, Sadao Kawamura, and Ji-Hun Bae,
"Skilled-motion plannings of multi-body systems based upon Riemannian distance,"
Proc. of the 2008 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA2008), pp.1233-1238, Pasadena, California, May 19-23 2008.
(A Finalist for the Best Manipulation Paper Award (Endowed by Ben Wegbreit))
Kenji Tahara, Suguru Arimoto, Masahiro Sekimoto, Morio Yoshida, and Zhi-Wei Luo,
"On iterative learning control for simultaneous force/position trajectory tracking by using 5 d.o.f. robotic thumb under non-holonomic rolling constraints,"
Proc. of the 2008 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA2008), pp.2611-2616, Pasadena, California, May 19-23 2008.
Suguru Arimoto, Masahiro Sekimoto, and Sadao Kawamura,
"Iterative learning of specified motions in task-space for redundant multi-joint hand-arm robots,"
Proc. of the 2007 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA2007), pp.2867-2873, Roma, Italy, Apr. 10-14, 2007.
Ji-Hun Bae, Masahiro Sekimoto, and Suguru Arimoto,
"Effect of virtual spring-damper in grasping and object manipulation of a robotic hand-arm system,"
Proc. of the SICE-ICASE International Joint Conference 2006 (SICE-ICCAS2006), pp.2222-2226, Busan, Korea, Oct. 18-21, 2006.
Masahiro Sekimoto, and Suguru Arimoto,
"Experimental study on reaching movements of robot arms with redundant DOFs based upon virtual spring-damper hypothesis,"
Proc. of the 2006 IEEE/RSJ Intl. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS2006), pp.562-567, Beijing, China, Oct. 9-15, 2006.
(IEEE Kansai Section Student Paper Award)
Ji-Hun Bae, Suguru Arimoto, Yuuichi Yamamoto, Hiroe Hashiguchi, and Masahiro Sekimoto,
"Reaching to grasp and preshaping of multi-dofs robotic hand-arm systems using approximate configuration of objects,"
Proc. of the 2006 IEEE/RSJ Intl. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS2006), pp.1605-1610, Beijing, China, Oct. 9-15, 2006.
Suguru Arimoto, and Masahiro Sekimoto,
"Natural redundancy resolution for PTP control of multi-joint reaching movements: A virtual spring/damper hypothesis,"
Proc. of the 17th International Symposium on Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems (MTNS2006), pp.1008-1017, Kyoto, Japan, July 24-28, 2006.
Ji-Hun Bae, Suguru Arimoto, Masahiro Sekimoto, Ryuta Ozawa, and Morio Yoshida,
"A simple control scheme for object manipulation by robotic hand-arm systems,"
Proc. of the 2006 International Symposium on Flexible Automation (ISFA2006), pp.912-919, Osaka, Japan, July 10-12, 2006.
Suguru Arimoto and Masahiro Sekimoto,
"Human-like movements of robotic arms with redundant DOFs: Virtual spring-damper hypothesis to tackle the Bernstein problem,"
Proc. of the 2006 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA2006), pp.1860-1866, Orlando, Florida, USA, May 15-19, 2006.
Ji-Hun Bae, Suguru Arimoto, Ryuta Ozawa, Masahiro Sekimoto, and Morio Yoshida,
"A unified control scheme for a whole robotic arm-fingers system in grasping and manipulation,"
Proc. of the 2006 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA2006), pp.2131-2136, Orlando, Florida, USA, May 15-19, 2006.
Ji-Hun Bae, Suguru Arimoto, Ryuta Ozawa, Morio Yoshida, and Masahiro Sekimoto,
"Concurrent grasping and manipulation by arm-hand coordinated movements based on task-distribution."
Proc. of the first IEEE / RAS-EMBS Intl. Conf. on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics (BIOROB2006), 332, Pisa, Italy, Feb. 20-22, 2006.
Suguru Arimoto, Masahiro Sekimoto, Ji-Hun Bae, and Hiroe Hashiguchi,
"Three-dimensional multi-joint reaching under redundancy of DOFs,"
Proc. of 2005 IEEE/RSJ Intl. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS2005), pp.1898-1904, Edmonton, Canada, Aug. 2-6, 2005.
Suguru Arimoto, Hiroe Hashiguchi, and Masahiro Sekimoto,
"Natural resolution of dof redundancy in execution of robot tasks under the gravity: A challenge to Bernstein's problem and applications to handwriting robots,"
Proc. of the 12th International Conference on Advanced Robotics (ICAR2005), pp.51-57, Seattle, Washington, USA, July 17-20, 2005.
Suguru Arimoto, Masahiro Sekimoto, and Ryuta Ozawa,
"Can newtonian mechanics aid in the development of brain science?: a challenge to Bernstein's degrees-of-freedom problem,"
Proc. of The First International Conference on Complex Medical Engineering (CME2005), pp.883-888, Takamatsu, Japan, May 15-18, 2005.
Ji-Hun Bae, Suguru Arimoto, Ryuta Ozawa, and Masahiro Sekimoto,
"Enhancement of dexterity in robotic grasping referring to characteristics of human grasping,"
Proc. of the 2005 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA2005), pp.1215-1221, Barcelona, Spain, Apr. 18-22, 2005.
Suguru Arimoto, Masahiro Sekimoto, Hiroe Hashiguchi, and Ryuta Ozawa,
"Physiologically inspired robot control: A challenge to Bernstein's degrees-of-freedom problem,"
Proc. of the 2005 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA2005), pp.4511-4518, Barcelona, Spain, Apr. 18-22, 2005.
Suguru Arimoto, Masahiro Sekimoto, Ryuta Ozawa, and Morio Yoshida,
"Natural resolution of ill-posed inverse kinematics for redundant robots: A challenge to bernstein's degrees-of-freedom problem,"
Proc. of Complex Systems, Intelligence and Modern Technological Applications International Conference (CSIMTA2004), INV5-B.2, Cherbourg, France, Sept. 19-22, 2004.
Ji-Hun Bae, Suguru Arimoto, Masahiro Sekimoto, and Ryuta Ozawa,
"Dexterity analysis of human and robotic grasping motions from the viewpoint of dynamics,"
Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO2004), 217, Shenyang, China, Aug. 22-26, 2004.
Sinsuke Nakamura, Kenji Tahara, Ji-Hun Bae, Masahiro Sekimoto, and Suguru Arimoto,
"Experiments of grasping and object-manipulation by a pair of multi-degrees of freedom robot fingers,"
Proc. of 2003 IEEE International Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Robotics and Automation (CIRA2003), Vol.3, pp.1162-1167, Kobe, Japan, July 16-20, 2003.

Domestic Conf. Paper
(in Japanese)

Masahiro Sekimoto, Suguru Arimoto, and Sadao Kawamura,
"Control of a multi-joint robot by using an inertia-induced effect based on a Riemannian distance,"
Proc. of the 10th SICE System Integration Division Annual Conference (SI2009), pp.212-215 (1D3-4), Shibaura Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Dec. 24-26, 2009. (in Japanese)
Tomoya Ishitsubo, Masahiro Sekimoto, and Sadao Kawamura,
"Trajectory control for two-joint robots based on basis-motion composition,"
Proc. of the 10th SICE System Integration Division Annual Conference (SI2009), pp.1855-1858 (3K2-2), Shibaura Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Dec. 24-26, 2009. (in Japanese)
Sadao Kawamura, Yuuji Hayashi, Takashi Mitsuda, Mitsunori Uemura, Masahiro Sekimoto, and Tadao Isaka,
"Precise motion control for muscular structure robots without using kinematic and dynamic information,"
Proc. of the 10th SICE System Integration Division Annual Conference (SI2009), pp.478-481 (1H2-5), Shibaura Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Dec. 24-26, 2009. (in Japanese)
Yuki Shiba, Takahiro Wada, Toyokazu Takeuchi, and Masahiro Sekimoto,
"Evaluation of closeness of the gait with trans-femoral prosthesis to inertia-induced motion,"
Proc. of the 2009 Annual Conference of the SICE Shikoku Branch, 221, Kochi University of Technology, Kochi, Nov. 7, 2009. (in Japanese)
Masahiro Sekimoto, Suguru Arimoto, Boris I. Prilutsky, Tadao Isaka, and Sadao Kawamura,
"An inertia-induced measure: Observation of human reaching from the viewpoint of a Riemannian distance,"
Proc. of The 27th Annual Conference of the Robotics Society of Japan (RSJ2009), 3L1-03, Yokohama National University, Kanagawa, Sept. 15-17, 2009. (in Japanese)
Masahiro Sekimoto, Tomoya Ishitsubo, and Sadao Kawamura,
"ILC-torque based feedforward-input generation for multi-joint robots: On the number of basis motions for pose control of a planar two-joint arm,"
Proc. of The 27th Annual Conference of the Robotics Society of Japan (RSJ2009), 2K1-04, Yokohama National University, Kanagawa, Sept. 15-17, 2009. (in Japanese)
Tomoya Ishitsubo, Masahiro Sekimoto, and Sadao Kawamura,
"Basis-motion composition based on different time-scale transformation for each joint motion,"
Proc. of The 27th Annual Conference of the Robotics Society of Japan (RSJ2009), 2K2-02, Yokohama National University, Kanagawa, Sept. 15-17, 2009. (in Japanese)
Takahiro Wada, Toyokazu Takeuchi, Masahiro Sekimoto, Yuuki Shiba, and Suguru Arimoto,
"Evaluation of gait with trans-femoral prosthesis based on Riemannian distance,"
Proc. of The 27th Annual Conference of the Robotics Society of Japan (RSJ2009), 1C2-01, Yokohama National University, Kanagawa, Sept. 15-17, 2009. (in Japanese)
Sadao Kawamura, Yuji Hayashi, Takashi Mitsuda, Mitsunori Uemura, and Masahiro Sekimoto,
"Stability conditions of feedback motion control based on linear transformation from vision to motion: Don't robots need encoders?,"
Proc. of The 27th Annual Conference of the Robotics Society of Japan (RSJ2009), 2K1-01, Yokohama National University, Kanagawa, Sept. 15-17, 2009. (in Japanese)
Tomoya Ishitsubo, Shinsuke Akiduki, Masayuki Mizuno, Masahiro Sekimoto, and Sadao Kawamura,
"Experimental study on motion control of multi-joint robots based on basis-motion composition,"
Proc. of the 2009 JSME Conference on Robotics and Mechatronics (ROBOMEC2009), 2A1-G04, Fukuoka, May 24-26, 2009. (in Japanese)
Yuuji Hayashi, Sadao Kawamura, Takashi Mitsuda, Mitsunori Uemura, Masahiro Sekimoto, and Tadao Isaka,
"Robust sensor feedback control with human muscular structure,"
Proc. of the 2009 JSME Conference on Robotics and Mechatronics (ROBOMEC2009), 2A1-B09, Fukuoka, May 24-26, 2009. (in Japanese)
Masahiro Sekimoto, Suguru Arimoto, and Sadao Kawamura,
"An inertia-induced movement measure based on riemannian distance,"
Proc. of the 9th SICE System Integration Division Annual Conference (SI2008), pp.1199-1200 (3H3-5), Gifu, Dec. 5-7, 2008. (in Japanese)
(SI2008 Excellent Presentation Award)
Takashi Mitsuda, Sadao Kawamura, Masahiro Sekimoto, Mitsunori Uemura, and Tadao Isaka,
"Evaluation of the linearity in the mapping from the hand coordinates to the muscle length,"
Proc. of the 9th SICE System Integration Division Annual Conference (SI2008), pp.7-8 (1A1-4), Gifu, Dec. 5-7, 2008. (in Japanese)
(SI2008 Excellent Presentation Award)
Masayuki Mizuno, Shinsuke Akiduki, Masahiro Sekimoto, and Sadao Kawamura,
"Motion generations for multi-joint robots based on basis-motion composition,"
Proc. of the 2008 JSME Conference on Robotics and Mechatronics (ROBOMEC2008), pp.1A1-A19, Big Hat, Nagano, June 5-7, 2008. (in Japanese)
Masahiro Sekimoto, Suguru Arimoto, Ji-Hun Bae, and Sadao Kawamura,
"Inertial actions and motion generations during a swing phase of human walking,"
Proc. of the 8th SICE System Integration Division Annual Conference (SI2007), pp.1051-1052 (3G1-2), Hiroshima, Dec. 20-22, 2007. (in Japanese)
(The Society of Instrument and Control Engineers (SICE) Research Encouragement Award)
(The Society of Instrument and Control Engineers (SICE) System Integration (SI) Division Research Encouragement Award)
(SI2007 Excellent Presentation Award)
Masahiro Sekimoto, Suguru Arimoto, and Sadao Kawamura,
"Iterative learning control of endpoint movements by using a multi-joint arm,"
Proc. of The 25th Annual Conference of the Robotics Society of Japan (RSJ2007), 3N22, Chiba Institute of Technology, Chiba, Sept. 13-15, 2007. (in Japanese)
Kenji Tahara, Suguru Arimoto, Masahiro Sekimoto, Morio Yoshida, and Zhi-Wei Luo,
"On iterative learning of force/position control for soft thumb robot,"
Proc. of The 25th Annual Conference of the Robotics Society of Japan (RSJ2007), 2M11, Chiba Institute of Technology, Chiba, Sept. 13-15, 2007. (in Japanese)
Sadao Kawamura and Masahiro Sekimoto,
"Robot motion composition from basis motions by using time scale transformation," Proc. of The 25th Annual Conference of the Robotics Society of Japan (RSJ2007), 1M13, Chiba Institute of Technology, Chiba, Sept. 13-15, 2007. (in Japanese)
Masahiro Sekimoto, Suguru Arimoto, and Sadao Kawamura,
"Introduction of Riemannian distance into motion planning for multi-joint arm,"
Proc. of The 25th Annual Conference of the Robotics Society of Japan (RSJ2007), 1M12, Chiba Institute of Technology, Chiba, Sept. 13-15, 2007. (in Japanese)
Masahiro Sekimoto, Shun Umesao, and Suguru Arimoto,
"Experimental study on iterative learning control in task space for redundant robots,"
Proc. of the 7th SICE System Integration Division Annual Conference (SI2006), pp.87-88 (1C2-2), Sapporo, Dec. 14-17, 2006. (in Japanese)
Suguru Arimoto, and Masahiro Sekimoto,
"Effectiveness of iterative learning control in task space for redundant robots,"
Proc. of the 7th SICE System Integration Division Annual Conference (SI2006), pp.85-86 (1C2-1), Sapporo, Dec. 14-17, 2006. (in Japanese)
(SI2006 Excellent Presentation Award)
Kenji Tahara, Suguru Arimoto, Zhiwei Luo, and Masahiro Sekimoto,
"On the relation between the co-contraction of antagonist muscles and the hand viscosity based on "Virtual Spring-Damper Hypothesis","
Proc. of the 49th Japan Joint Automatic Control Conference, SU8-3-4, Kobe, Nov. 25-26, 2006. (in Japanese)
Masahiro Sekimoto, and Suguru Arimoto,
"Motion generation for robot arms with redundant joints: Control signals based on VSD hypothesis with viscosity compensation,"
Proc. of The 24th Annual Conference of the Robotics Society of Japan (RSJ2006), 2C16, Okayama Univ., Okayama, Sept. 14-16, 2006. (in Japanese)
Suguru Arimoto, Shun Umesao, Masahiro Sekimoto, Hiroe Hashiguchi, and Tamaki Torii,
"Are redundant robots capable to learn a desired motion through exercises?,"
Proc. of The 24th Annual Conference of the Robotics Society of Japan (RSJ2006), 2D12, Okayama Univ., Okayama, Sept. 14-16, 2006. (in Japanese)
Masahiro Sekimoto, Ji-Hun Bae, Noritaka Moriwaki, Suguru Arimoto, and Ryuta Ozawa,
"Dynamic object manipulation by a multi-joint hand-arm system with redundant DOFs,"
Proc. of the 2006 JSME Conference on Robotics and Mechatronics (ROBOMEC2006), 1A1-B09, Waseda, Tokyo, May 26-28, 2006. (in Japanese)
Masahiro Sekimoto, Suguru Arimoto, Jun Kinugawa, and Ryuta Ozawa,
"Experiments of reaching by redundant multi-joint robot arm based on virtual spring-damper hypothesis,"
Proc. of the 6th SICE System Integration Division Annual Conference (SI2005), pp.685-686 (2H2-5), Kumamoto, Dec. 16-18, 2005. (in Japanese)
(The Society of Instrument and Control Engineers (SICE) System Integration (SI) Division Young Award)
(SI2005 Best Session Presentation Award)
Ji-Hun Bae, Suguru Arimoto, Ryuta Ozawa, Morio Yoshida, Masahiro Sekimoto, and Noritaka Moriwaki,
"A unified control method for whole robotic arm-fingers in superimposed tasks,"
Proc. of the 6th SICE System Integration Division Annual Conference (SI2005), pp.281-282 (1I2-5), Kumamoto, Dec. 16-18, 2005.
Masahiro Sekimoto, Suguru Arimoto, and Hiroe Hashiguchi,
"Effect of joint viscosity to accomplish skilled motions in reaching movements,"
Proc. of the 16th JSME Conference on Frontiers in Bioengineering, pp.107-108 (A210), Kusatsu, Shiga, Nov. 10-11, 2005. (in Japanese)
Masahiro Sekimoto, Suguru Arimoto, Hiroe Hashiguchi, and Ryuta Ozawa,
"Natural generation of motions for redundant multi-joint arm: In the case of reaching movements under the gravity in 3-D space,"
Proc. of The 23rd Annual Conference of the Robotics Society of Japan (RSJ2005), 1F12, Hiyoshi, Kanagawa, Sept. 15-17, 2005. (in Japanese)
Suguru Arimoto, Masahiro Sekimoto, Hiroe Hashiguchi, and Ryuta Ozawa,
"Natural generation of motions for redundant robots: Virtual spring-damper hypothesis,"
Proc. of The 23rd Annual Conference of the Robotics Society of Japan (RSJ2005), 1F11, Hiyoshi, Kanagawa, Sept. 15-17, 2005. (in Japanese)
Masahiro Sekimoto, Suguru Arimoto, and Ryuta Ozawa,
"Natural Multi-joint Reaching by a Redundant Arm and Obstacle Avoidance,"
Proc. of the 5th SICE System Integration Division Annual Conference (SI2004), 3I4-3, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Dec. 17-19, 2004. (in Japanese)
(SI2004 Best Session Presentation Award)
Ji-Hun Bae, Suguru Arimoto, Masahiro Sekimoto, and Ryuta Ozawa,
"Enhancement of dexterity in pinching tasks from bio-mimetic aspect,"
Proc. of the 22nd Annual Conference of the Robotics Society of Japan (RSJ2004), 2J11, Gifu, Sept. 15-17, 2004.
Suguru Arimoto, Masahiro Sekimoto, Hiroe Hashiguchi, and Ryuta Ozawa,
"Natural redundancy resolution for surplus degrees-of-freedom systems,"
Proc. of the 22nd Annual Conference of the Robotics Society of Japan (RSJ2004), 2L11, Gifu, Sept. 15-17, 2004. (in Japanese)
Masahiro Sekimoto, Suguru Arimoto, Hiroe Hashiguchi, and Ryuta Ozawa,
"Simulations of human reaching motion with redundant joints,"
Proc. of the 22nd Annual Conference of the Robotics Society of Japan (RSJ2004), 1D22, Gifu, Sept. 15-17, 2004. (in Japanese)
Morio Yoshida, Ryuta Ozawa, Masahiro Sekimoto, and Suguru Arimoto,
"Stable pinching and posture control of objects with non-parallel flat surfaces by a pair of robot fingers,"
Proc. of the 21st Annual Conference of the Robotics Society of Japan (RSJ2003), 3E15, Tokyo, Sept. 20-22, 2003. (in Japanese)

March 1980		I was born in Tokyo, Japan.
March 2003		I graduated from Department of Robotics, College of Science and Engineering, Ritsumeikan University.
March 2005		I finished Information Science and Systems Engineering, Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Ritsumeikan University (Master's Program).
March 2007		I finished Integrated Science and Engineering, Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Ritsumeikan University (Doctoral Program).

April 2005 - March 2006		Research assistant, in Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Ritsumeikan University, Japan.
April 2006 - March 2007		Research and teaching associate, in College of Science and Engineering, Ritsumeikan University, Japan.
April 2007 -		Postdoctoral Fellow, in Research Organization of Science and Engineering, Ritsumeikan University, Japan.
May 2008 - June 2008		Visiting Scholar, in Georgia Institute of Technology, USA.

February 2009		The Society of Instrument and Control Engineers (SICE), Research Encouragement Award
December 2008		The Society of Instrument and Control Engineers (SICE) System Integration (SI) Division Research Encouragement Award
December 2008		SI2008 Excellent Presentation Award, at the 9th SICE System Integration Division Annual Conference (SI2008)
May 2008		A Finalist for the Best Manipulation Paper Award (Endowed by Ben Wegbreit) in ICRA 2008
February 2008		IEEE Kansai Section Student Paper Award
December 2007		SI2007 Excellent Presentation Award, at the 8th SICE System Integration Division Annual Conference (SI2007)
September 2007		The Robotics Society of Japan 2007 Best Paper Award
December 2006		The Society of Instrument and Control Engineers (SICE) System Integration (SI) Division Young Award
December 2006		SI2006 Excellent Presentation Award, at the 7th SICE System Integration Division Annual Conference (SI2006)
December 2005		SI2005 Best Session Presentation Award, at the 6th SICE System Integration Division Annual Conference (SI2005)
December 2004		SI2004 Best Session Presentation Award, at the 5th SICE System Integration Division Annual Conference (SI2004)
April 2003		Ritsumeikan University Graduate School Special Honors Scholarship (Benefit A)
July 2001		Ritsumeikan University Saionji Scholarship (Benefit)

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