Publications

(Last update: May 24, 2012; excluding under reviews.)

Journals

Nakajima, K., Tientcheu, A., Miyashita, S., Goldi, M., Fuchslin, R., and Pfeifer, R. (In press). Morphology-Induced Collective Behaviors: Switching of Segregation Observed in Water Floating Elements, PLoS ONE.
Diller, E., Miyashita, S., and Sitti, M. (2012). Wirelessly Addressable Magnetic Composite Micropumps. RSC Advances. 2 (9), 3850-3856.
Miyashita, S., and Pfeifer, R. (2011). Attributes of Two Dimensional Magnetic Self-Assembly. Adaptive Behavior. 20 (2), 117-130.
Miyashita, S., Goldi, M., and Pfeifer, R. (2011). How reverse reactions influence the yield rate of stochastic self-assembly. International Journal of Robotics Research, 30, 627-641.
Miyashita, S., Nagy, Z., Nelson, B. J., and Pfeifer, R. (2009). The influence of shape on parallel self-assembly. Entropy, 11, 643-666.
Miyashita, S. (2007). Morphogenesis of 3D sheets exploiting a spatial condition. Artificial Life and Robotics, 11, 139-144.
Miyashita, S. and Murata, S. (2007). Emerging cell array based on reaction-diffusion. Artificial Life and Robotics, 11, 32-36.
Miyashita, S., Tabuchi, Y., and Tanaka, S. (2003). Cortico-thalamocortical operations of multi-target spatial working memory. Neurocomputing, 53, 327-333.

Theses

Miyashita, S. (2011). Effect of Morphology on Scalable Self-Assembling Robots -in Pursuit of Living Artificial Systems-. Ph.D. thesis, University of Zurich.
Miyashita, S. (2004). Emerging Network Structure based on Reaction-Diffusion. Master thesis, Tokyo Institute of Technology.

Book chapter contributions

Miyashita, S., Tientcheu, A., Fuchslin, R., Nakajima, K., Audretsch, C., and Pfeifer, R. (2011). Bio-Inspired Self-Organizing Robotic Systems, chapter Basic Problems in Self-Assembling Robots and a Case Study of Segregation on Tribolon Platform. pp. 173-191, Springer, ISBN: 3642207596
Miyashita, S., Casanova, F., Lungarella, M., and Pfeifer, R. (2010). Cutting Edge Robotics 2010, chapter Peltier-Based Freeze-Thaw Connector for Waterborne Self-Assembly Systems, pp. 187-198. In-Tech, ISBN: 978-953-307-062-9.
Miyashita, S., Lungarella, M., and Pfeifer, R. (2009). Artificial Life Models in Hardware, chapter Tribolon: Water Based Self-assembly Robot, pp. 161-184. Springer, ISBN: 978-1-84882-529-1.
Miyashita, S., Hadorn, M., and Hotz, P. E. (2007). Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Agent and Multi-Agent Systems: Technologies and Applications, vol. 4496/2007, chapter Water Floating Self-assembling Agents, pp. 665-674. Springer, ISBN: 978-3-540-72829-0.
Miyashita, S. and Murata, S. (2005). Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Advances in Artificial Life, vol. 3630/2005, chapter Topology Changes Enable Reaction-Diffusion to Generate Forms, pp. 159-168. Springer, ISBN: 978-3-540-28848-0.

Peer Reviewed Conference Papers

Cadosch, D., Huang, P-T., Damian, D. D., Miyashita, S., Aoyama, A. and Pfeifer, R. (2011). "Attempt on Plant Machine Interface: Towards Self-monitoring Plant Systems" IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC), pp. 791-796. (Acceptance rate: 64%)
Ngouabeu, A. M. T., Miyashita, S., Fuchslin, R., Nakajima, K., Goldi, M., and Pfeifer, R. (2010). Self-organized segregation effect on self-assembling robots. In The Twelfth International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems (Articial Life XII), pp. 232-238, Odense, Denmark.
Nagy, Z., Miyashita, S. Muntwyler, S., Cherukuri, A. K., Abbott, J. J., Pfeifer, R., and Nelson, B. J. (2009). Morphology detection for magnetically selfassembled modular robots. In IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), pp. 5281-5286, St. Louis, USA. (Acceptance rate: 54%)
Miyashita, S., Casanova, F., Lungarella, M., and Pfeifer, R. (2008) Peltier-based freeze-thaw connector for waterborne self-assembly systems. In IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Nice, France, September, pp. 1325-1330. (Acceptance rate: 48.8%)
Miyashita, S., Kessler, M., and Lungarella, M. (2008). How morphology affects self-assembly in a stochastic modular robot. In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Pasadena, USA, May. (Acceptance rate: 43.4%)
Miyashita, S., Hadorn, M., and Hotz, P. E. (2007). Water floating self-assembling agents. In KES Symposium on Agent and Multi-Agent Systems (KES-AMSTA), Wroclaw, Poland, May. (Acceptance rate: 23.7%)
Miyashita, S., Hadorn, M., and Hotz, P. E. (2007). Self-assemble of water floating active units. In IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics (ICM), Kumamoto, Japan, May.
Miyashita, S. and Hotz, P. E. (2006). Morphogenetic evolution of 3D sheets exploiting a spatial constraint. In World Congress on Computational Intelligence (CEC), Vancouver, Canada, July, pp. 9203-9210. (Acceptance rate: 57%)
Miyashita, S. and Murata, S. (2005). Topology changes enable reaction-diffusion to generate forms. In International Conference on European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL), Canterbury, England, September, pp. 159-168. (Acceptance rate: 49.3%)

Abstract Refereed Conferences / Workshops

Miyashita, S., Goldi, M., and Nakajima, K. (2011). Role of Morphology on Two Dimensional Magnetic Self-Assembly. In International Conference on Morphological Computation (ICMC2011).
Miyashita, S., Goldi, M., Audretsch, C., Fuechslin, R., and Pfeifer, R. (2010). The problems toward sub-millimeter scale self-assembling robots. In Workshop on Bio-Inspired Self-Organizing Robotic Systems in IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Anchorage, Alaska, May.
Miyashita, S., Aoyama, A., Nawa, M., Higashijima, J., Sakamoto, K., Nozoye, T., and Kobayashi, T. (2010). Hierarchical analysis on cognitive systems. In 4th International Conference on Cognitive Systems (CogSys2010), ETH Zurich, Switzerland, January, p. 28.
Cadosch, D., Boller, M., Ammann, M., Damian, D. D., Miyashita, S., and Pfeifer, R. (2010). Attempt towards the cyborg-plant: Robotic response to water stress in avocados. In 4th International Conference on Cognitive Systems (CogSys2010), ETH Zurich, Switzerland, January, p. 78.
Tientcheu, A., Goldi, M., Miyashita, S., Fuchslin, R., and Pfeifer, R. (2010). Achieving self-sorting in self-assembly systems. In 4th International Conference on Cognitive Systems (CogSys2010), ETH Zurich, Switzerland, January, p. 93.
Goldi, M., Tientcheu, A., Miyashita, S., and Pfeifer, R. (2010). Numerical analysis of morphological influence on self-assembly robots. In 4th International Conference on Cognitive Systems (CogSys2010), ETH Zurich, Switzerland, January, p. 92.
Miyashita, S., Casanova, F., Lungarella, M., and Pfeifer, R. (2008). Tribolon: Water based self-assembly robot with freezing connector (movie). In IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Nice, France, September. (Acceptance rate: 66.7%)
Miyashita, S., Hadorn, M., and Hotz, P. E. (2007). Tribolon - water floating self-assembling units. In International Conference on Morphological Computation (ICMC), Venice, Italy, March.
Labhart, N. and Miyashita, S. (2007). Adaptation of a distributed controller depending on morphology. In International Conference on Artificial Life and Robotics (AROB), Beppu, Japan, January, pp. 454-457.
Labhart, N. and Miyashita, S. (2006). How morphology affects learning of a controller for movement. In International Conference on 50th Anniversary summit of AI (ASAI50), Monte-Verita, Switzerland, July.
Miyashita, S., Hadorn, M., and Hotz, P. E. (2006). Technical proposal for an active floating element. In International Conference on 50th Anniversary summit of AI (ASAI50), Monte-Verita, Switzerland, July.
Miyashita, S. (2006). Morphogenesis of 3D sheets exploiting a spatial condition. In International Conference on on Artificial Life and Robotics (AROB), Beppu, Japan, January, pp. 332-325.
Miyashita, S. and Murata, S. (2006). Emerging cell array based on reaction-diffusion. In International Conference on Artificial Life and Robotics (AROB), Beppu, Japan, January, pp. 309-312.
Tanaka, S., Miyashita, S., Nakagawa, T., Kirino, E., Bakardjian, H., and Cichochki, A. (2003). Event-related potentials of the front-parietal network for multi-target spatial working memory processing: Independent component analysis. In World Congress of Neuroscience, Prague, Czech Republic, July.
Miyashita, S., Tabuchi, Y., and Tanaka, S. (2002). Cortico-thalamocortical operations of multi-target spatial working memory. In Computational Neuroscience Annual Meeting, Chicago, USA, July.

Non-refereed Conferences / Workshops

Miyashita, S. (2010). Design of a stay at a lab overseas. In The 28th Annual Conference of the Robotics Society of Japan, Nagoya, Japan.
Miyashita, S. (2009). The introduction of robotics research environment in Switzerland. In The 27th Annual Conference of the Robotics Society of Japan, Yokohama, Japan, September.
Aoyama, A. and Miyashita, S. (2009). Measurement of early brain activity evoked by environmental changes. In Multimedia and Cognitive Systems Summer School, Zurich, Switzerland, June.
Ray, S., Miyashita, S., and Pfeifer, R. (2009). Development of a shape memory alloy (SMA) actuator for magnetic switch in water based self-assembly robots. In Multimedia and Cognitive Systems Summer School, Zurich, Switzerland, June.
Miyashita, S. (2009). Tribolon: Water-based self-assembly system. In International Workshop on Robotics for Young Researchers, Boston, Massachusetts, March, p. 32.
Miyashita, S., Hadorn, M., and Hotz, P. E. (2007). Water floating active units. In Robotics and Mechatronics Conference (ROBOMEC), Akita, Japan, May, p. 112.
Miyashita, S. and Murata, S. (2004). Emergence structure based on reaction-diffusion. In Japanese Society for Science on Form, Saitama, Japan, July, vol. 19, p. 93.