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Atsushi Konno

Atsushi Konno

 Atsushi Konno was born in Japan on January 4, 1966. He received B.Eng., M.Eng., and Ph.D. degrees from the Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan, in 1988, 1990, and 1993, respectively, all in precision engineering. He was a research associate at Tohoku University from 1993 to 1995, and a research associate at University of Tokyo from 1995 to 1998. Since 1998, he has been with the School of Engineering, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan and currently is an Associate Professor of the Space Machines Laboratory, Department of Aeronautics and Space Engineering. His research interests include humanoid robots and their applications.

Research interests
  • Humanoid Robot

  • Quadruped Walking Robot

  • Three Dimensional Dual-Arm Flexible Manipulator

  • Three Dimensional Flexible Manipulator

    • Papers

    Journal paper
    1. A. Konno and M. Uchiyama, Vibration Suppression Control of Spatial Flexible Manipulators, CONTROL ENGINEERING PRACTICE, A Journal of IFAC the International Federation of Automatic Control, Vol. 3, pp. 1315 - 1321, 1995.
    2. S. Lopez-Linares, A. Konno and M. Uchiyama, Vibration Controllability of 3D Flexible Manipulators, Transactions of the ASME, Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement, and Control, Vol. 119, No. 2, pp. 326 - 330, 1997.
    3. S. Lopez-Linares, A. Konno and M. Uchiyama, Vibration Suppression Control of 3D Flexible Robots Using Velocity Inputs, Journal of Robotic Systems, Vol. 14, No. 12, pp. 823 - 837, 1997.
    4. Atsushi Konno, Masaru Uchiyama, Yutaka Kito and Mahito Murakami, Configuration-Dependent Vibration Controllability of Flexible-Link Manipulators, The International Journal of Robotics Research, Vol. 16, No. 4, pp. 567 - 576, 1997.
    5. Atsushi Konno, Takahide Yoshiike, Koichi Nagashima, Masayuki Inaba and Hirochika Inoue, Preliminary Experiments in Motion Programming of Humanoid Robot by Human Demonstrations, JSME International Journal, Series C, Vol. 43, No. 2, pp. 401 - 407, 2000.

    Conference paper (full paper review)

    1. M. Uchiyama and A. Konno , Computed Acceleration Control for the Vibration Suppression of Flexible Robotic Manipulators, Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Advanced Robotics, Pisa, Italy, pp. 126 - 131, 1991.
    2. Atsushi Konno and Masaru Uchiyama, Configuration-Dependent Vibration Control of Multi-Link Spatial Flexible Manipulators, Transactions of the IMACS/SICE International Symposium on Robotics, Mechatronics and Manufacturing Systems, Edited by Toshi TAKAMORI, Kazuo TSUCHIYA, pp. 937 - 942, 1993.
    3. A. Konno, M. Uchiyama, Y. Kito and M. Murakami, Vibration Controllability of Flexible Manipulators, Proceedings 1994 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, San Diego, USA, pp. 308 - 314, 1994.
    4. S. Lopez-Linares, A. Konno and M. Uchiyama, Vibration Suppression Control of Flexible Robots Using Velocity Inputs, Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ/GI International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Munich, Germany, pp. 1429 - 1437, 1994.
    5. S. LOPEZ-LINARES, A. KONNO and M. UCHIYAMA, Controllability of Flexible Manipulators, Preprints of the Fourth IFAC Symposium on Robot Control, Capri, Italy, pp. 509 - 516, 1994.
    6. A. KONNO and M. UCHIYAMA, Vibration Suppression Control of Spatial Flexible Manipulators, Preprints of the Fourth IFAC Symposium on Robot Control, Capri, Italy, pp. 517 - 523, 1994.
    7. Atsushi Konno and Masaru Uchiyama, Modeling of a Flexible Manipulator Dynamics Based upon Holzer's Model, Proceedings of the 1996 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Osaka, Japan, pp. 223 - 229, 1996.
    8. Jin-Soo Kim, Kuniaki Suzuki, Atsushi Konno and Masaru Uchiyama, Force Control of Constrained Flexible Manipulators, Proceedings of the 1996 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, pp. 635 - 640, 1996.
    9. D. N. Nenchev, K. Yoshida, P. Vichitkulsawat, A. Konno and M. Uchiyama, Experiments on Reaction Null-Space Based Decoupled Control of a Flexible Structure Mounted Manipulator System, Proceedings 1997 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA, pp. 2528 - 2534, 1997
    10. Ken'ichiro NAGASAKA, Atsushi KONNO, Masayuki INABA and Hirochika INOUE, Acquisition of Visually Guided Swing Motion Based on Genetic Algorithms and Neural Networks in Two-Armed Bipedal Robot, Proceedings of the 1997 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 2944 - 2949, 1997
    11. Atsushi Konno, Mitsunori Tada, Koichi Nagashima, Masayuki Inaba and Hirochika Inoue, Development of a 3-Fingered Hand and Grasping Unknown Objects by Groping, Proceedings of the 1997 IEEE International Symposium on Assembly and Task Planning, pp. 72 - 77, 1997.
    12. Atsushi Konno, Koichi Nagashima, Ryo Furukawa, Koichi Nishiwaki, Takuro Noda, Masayuki Inaba and Hirochika Inoue, Development of a Humanoid Robot Saika, Proceedings of the 1997 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp. 805 - 810, 1997
    13. Satoshi KAGAMI, Kei OKADA, Mitsutaka KABASAWA, Yoshio MATSUMOTO, Atsuhi KONNO, Masayuki INABA and Hirochika INOUE, A Vision-based Legged Robot as a Research Platform, Proceedings of the 1998 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp. 235 - 240, 1998.
    14. Takahide Yoshiike, Atsushi Konno, Koichi Nagashima, Masayuki Inaba, Hirochika Inoue, On-line Recognition and Mimicking of Human Posture, Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Advanced Mechatoronics, pp. 430 - 435, 1998.
    15. Satoshi KAGAMI, Mitsutaka KABASAWA, Kei OKADA, Takeshi MATSUKI, Yoshio MATSUMOTO, Atsushi KONNO, Masayuki INABA and Hirochika INOUE, Design and Development of a Legged Robot Research Platform JROB-1, Proceedings of the 1998 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp.146 - 151, 1998.
    16. Kentaro KAYAMA, Koichi NAGASHIMA, Atsushi KONNO, Masayuki INABA, Hirochika INOUE, Panoramic-Environmental Description as Robots' Visual Short-Term Memory, Proceedings of the 1998 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 3253 - 3258, 1998.
    17. Mitsuhiro Yamano, Atsushi Konno and Masaru Uchiyama, Vibration Suppression Control of Two Cooperative Flexible Manipulators Working in 3D Space, Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Advanced Robotics ('99 ICAR), Tokyo, Japan, pp. 385-390, 1999.
    18. Mitsuhiro Yamano, Atsushi Konno and Masaru Uchiyama, Experiments on Capturing a Floating Object by Two Flexible Manipulators, Proceedings of the 2000 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, San Francisco, California, USA, pp. 482-487, 2000.
    19. Atsushi Konno, Noriyoshi Kato, Satoshi Shirata, Tomoyuki Furuta and Masaru Uchiyama, Development of a Light-Weight Biped Humanoid Robot, Proceedings of the 2000 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp. 1565 - 1570, 2000
    20. Mitsuhiro Yamano, Atsushi Konno, Masaru Uchiyama and Tomohiro Miyabe, and Masaru Uchiyama, Capturing a Spinning Object by Two Flexible Manipulators, Proceedings of the 2000 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp. 2036 - 2041, 2000
    21. Atsushi Konno, Yusuke Mitsuya, Noriyoshi Kato and Masaru Uchiyama, Man-Machine Interface using Steering Wheel and Pedals for a Quadruped Walking Robot, Proceedings of the 2001 IEEE/ASME International Conference on Intelligent Mechatronics, pp. 57 - 62, 2001
    22. Tomohiro Miyabe, Mitsuhiro Yamano, Atsushi Konno, and Masaru Uchiyama, An Approach Toward a Robust Object Recovery with Flexible Manipulators, Proceedings of 2001 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp. 907-912, Hawaii, USA, 2001
    23. Atsushi Konno, Noriyoshi Kato, Yusuke Mitsuya and Masaru Uchiyama, Design and Development of the Quadrupedal Research Platform JROB-2, Proceedings of the 2002 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Washington DC, USA, 2002 (to appear)
    24. A. Konno, R. Sellaouti, F. B. Amar, and F. B. Ouezdou, Design and Development of the Biped Prototype ROBIAN, Proceedings of the 2002 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Washington DC, USA, 2002 (to appear)
    25. R. Sellaouti, A. Konno, and F. B. Ouezdou, Design of a 3 DOFs Parallel Actuated Mechanism for ROBIAN Hip Joint, Proceedings of the 2002 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Washington DC, USA, 2002 (to appear)

    Conference paper (abstract review)
    1. M. Uchiyama and A. Konno, Laser Optical Measurement of Robot Structural Deflections, Proceedings of the International Conference on Advanced Mechatronics, Tokyo, Japan, pp. 353 - 357, 1989.
    2. M. Uchiyama, A. Konno, T. Uchiyama and S. Kanda, Development of a Flexible Dual-Arm Manipulator Testbed for Space Robotics ,Proc. IEEE International Workshop on Intelligent Robots and Systems '90, Tsuchiura, Japan, pp. 375 - 381, 1990.
    3. A. Konno, M. Uchiyama, Y. Kito and M. Murakami, Configuration-Dependent Controllability of Flexible Manipulators, Experimental Robotics III: The 3rd International Symposium, Tsuneo Yoshikawa and Fumio Miyazaki (Eds.), Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences 200, pp. 531 - 544, 1994.
    4. Jin-Soo Kim, Atsushi Konno, Masaru Uchiyama, Kazuaki Usui and Kazuki Yoshimura, Lumped-Parameter Modeling of Flexible Manipulator Dynamics, Proceedings of the 9th KOREA AUTOMATIC CONTROL CONFERENCE, International Sessions, Taejeon, Korea, pp. 117 - 122, 1994.
    5. Jin-Soo Kim, Kuniaki Suzuki, Atsushi Konno and Masaru Uchiyama, Hybrid Position/Force Control of Flexible Manipulators, Proceedings of the 10th KOREA AUTOMATIC CONTROL CONFERENCE, International Program, Seoul, Korea, pp. 408 - 411, 1995.
    6. Masaru Uchiyama and Atsushi Konno, Modeling, Controllability and Vibration Suppression of 3D Flexible Robots, Robotics Research, The Seventh International Symposium, Georges Giralt and Gerhard Hirzinger (Eds), Springer, pp. 90 - 99, 1996.
    7. Atsushi Konno, Koichi Nishiwaki, Ryo Furukawa, Mitsunori Tada, Koichi Nagashima, Masayuki Inaba and Hirochika Inoue, Dexterous Manipulations of Humanoid Robot Saika, Priprints of Fifth International Symposium on Experimental Robots, pp. 46 - 57, 1997.
    8. Koichi NISHIWAKI, Atsushi KONNO, Koichi NAGASHIMA, Masayuki INABA and Hirochika INOUE, The Humanoid Saika that Catches a Thrown Ball, Proceedings of 6th IEEE International Workshop on Robot and Human Communication, pp. 94 - 99, 1997.
    9. K.Nagashima, T.Yoshiike, A.Konno, M.Inaba and H.Inoue, Attention-Based Interaction between Human and the Robot Chiye, Proceedings of 6th IEEE International Workshop on Robot and Human Communication, pp. 100 - 105, 1997.
    10. Satoshi KAGAMI, Atsushi KONNO, Ryosuke KAGEYAMA, Masayuki INABA and Hirochika INOUE, Development of a Humanoid H4 with Soft and Distributed Tactile Sensor Skin, 6th International Symposium on Experimental Robotics Preprints, pp. 443 - 451, 1999.
    11. Mitsuhiro Yamano, Atsushi Konno and Masaru Uchiyama, An Experimentation System for Capturing a Satellite by a Dual-Arm Flexible Manipulator, 1999 ISAS 9th Workshop on Astrodynamics and Flight Mechanics, Sagamihara, ISAS, pp. 253-258, 1999.
    12. Liu Deman, Atsushi Konno, Masaru Uchiyama, Flexible Manipulator Trajectory Learning Control with Input Preshaping Method, Proceeding of the 38th SICE Annual Conference, International Session Papers, Morioka, Japan, pp. 967-972, 1999.

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