Publications & Awards

2018--

Journal Papers

• 1. S. Ejaz and M. Inoue, Trust-aware safe control for autonomous navigation: Estimation of system-to-human trust for trust-adaptive control barrier functions, IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, Vol.33, No.4, pp.1151-1163, 2025 (Special Issue on Intelligent Decision Making, Planning and Control of Automated Vehicles, arXiv, link)

  2. T. Udagawa and M. Inoue, Tolling scheme for traffic flow networks: Modeling and control of positive systems, International Journal of Control, Vol.98, No.5, pp.1046-1058, 2025 (link) 

  3. S. Wada*, M. Ishii*, M. Inoue, and D. Toratani, Semi-continuous descent operation: A fuel-efficient interval management algorithm, Journal of Aircraft, Vol.61, No.2, 2024 (*equal contribution,  link, The Penmark)

  4. M. Figura, L. Su, M. Inoue, and V. Gupta, Instant distributed MPC with reference governor, International Journal of Control, Vol.97, No.4, pp.662-672, 2024 (link)

  5. K. Hara, M. Inoue, and N. Sebe, Dissipativity-constrained approximation of MPC with guaranteeing closed-loop stability, IFAC Automatica, Vol. 157, pp.111271, 2023 (link)

  6. R. Asanaka, M. Inoue, T. Homma, and K. Sawada, Incentive and nudge design for human behavioral change, SICE Journal of Control, Measurement, and System Integration, 2023 (link) 

  7. T. Nii and M. Inoue, Personalized control system via reinforcement learning: Maximizing utility based on user ratings, SICE Journal of Control, Measurement, and System Integration, Vol.16, No.1, pp.18-26, 2023 (link)

  8. T. Nii and M, Inoue, Personalization of control systems by policy update with improving user trust, IEEE Control Systems Letters, Vol.7, pp.889-894, 2022 (link)

  9. J. M. Maestre, P. Chanfreut, J. G. Martin, E. Masero, M. Inoue, and E. F. Camacho, Control predictivo de sistemas ciberf´ısicos, Revista Iberoamericana de Automática e Informática industrial, Vol. 19, No. 1, pp.1--12, 2021  (in Spanish, link)

  10. K. Hara and M. Inoue, Gain-preserving data-driven approximation of Koopman operator and its application to robust controller design, Mathematics, Vol.9, No.9, 2021 (special issue).

  11. T. Homma, M. Inoue, J.-I. Imura, and K. Urata, Safe-update of bi-layered controller and its application to power systems, SICE Journal of Control, Measurement, and System Integration, Vol.14, No.2,  2021 (link)

  12. T. Ishizaki, H. Sasahara, M. Inoue, T. Kawaguchi, and J.-I. Imura, Modularity-in-design of dynamical network systems: Retrofit control approach,  IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Vol.66, No.11, pp.5205--5220, 2021 (link, arXiv)

  13. K. Hara, M. Inoue, and J. M. Maestre, Data-driven human modeling: quantifying personal tendency toward laziness, IEEE Control Systems Letters, Vol.5, No.4, pp.1219--1224, 2021 (link)

  14. M. Inoue, T. Sadamoto, M. Arahata, and A. Chakrabortty, Optimal power flow design for enhancing dynamic performance: Potentials of reactive power, IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, Vol.12, No.1, pp. 599--611, 2021 (link)

  15. K. Urata, M. Inoue, T. Ishizaki, and J.-I. Imura, Performance improvement via iterative connection of passive systems, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Vol.65, No.3, pp.1325--1332, 2020 (link)

  16. K. Yoshida, M. Inoue, and T. Hatanaka, Instant MPC for linear systems and dissipativity-based stability analysis, IEEE Control Systems Letters, Vol.3, No.4, pp.811--816, 2019 (link)

  17. M. Inoue and V. Gupta, "Weak" control for human-in-the-loop systems, IEEE Control Systems Letters, Vol.3, No.2, pp.440-445, 2019 (link, arXiv)

  18. M. Inoue, Subspace identification with moment matching, IFAC Automatica, Vol.99, pp.22--32, 2019 (link)

  19. M. Inoue, Persistence in control systems, IEEE Control Systems Letters, Vol. 2, No. 3, pp.387--392, 2018 (link)

  20. M. Inoue and K. Urata, Dissipativity reinforcement in interconnected systems, IFAC Automatica, Vol.95, pp. 73--85, 2018 (link)

  21. S. Yoshimura, A. Matsubayashi, and M. Inoue, System identification method inheriting steady-state characteristics of existing model, International Journal of Control, 2018 (link)

  22. S. Mori, M. Inoue, K. Matsui, and S. Adachi, Model matching control for binaural reproduction over loudspeakers, SICE Journal of Control, Measurement, and System Integration, Vol.11, No.3, pp.249--255, 2018 (link)

  23. M. Inoue and K. Urata, Quantitative analysis of passive systems interconnected on graphs, IEICE Nonlinear Theory and Its Applications, Vol. 9, No. 2, pp. 185--195, 2018 (link)

  24. K. Urata and M. Inoue, Dissipativity reinforcement in feedback systems and its application to expanding power systems, International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control, Vol. 28, No. 5, pp. 1528--1546, 2018 (link)

Conference Papers

• 1. R. Ishida, M. Inoue, S. Ishihara, and H. Obara, An assistance control system for safe and flexible operation toward operator upskilling, 2025 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC), Vienna, Austria, October, 2025

  2. Y. Miyaoka, M. Inoue, K. Urata, and S. Harada, Chat-driven interface for virtual network reallocation, 2025 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Montreal, Canada, June, 2025 (link)

  3. N. Onosato, N. Sawada, Y. Kawasaki, M. Takeda, M. Inoue, and Y. Sugiura, Detachable robot that moves the baby bouncer, 2025 IEEE/SICE International Symposium on System Integration (SII), Munich, Germany, January, pp.134-140, 2025 (link, video)

  4. Y. Miyaoka, M. Inoue, T. Nii, ChatMPC: Natural language based MPC personalization, 2024 American Control Conference (ACC), Toronto, Canada, July, 2024 (link, arXiv).

  5. R.Asanaka and M. Inoue, Gig Work Systems Design for Dynamic Work Management with Freelancers, IEEE SMC 2023, Maui, Hawaii, October, 2023  (link) 

  6. M. Ishii, M. Inoue, and D. Toratani, Fuel-efficient interval management for air traffic descending operation, 2023 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC), Maui, Hawaii, October, 2023

  7. T. Udagawa and M. Inoue, Tolling for traffic flow networks: Positive systems modeling and control, IFAC World Congress 2023, Yokohama, Japan, July, 2023  (link) 

  8. T. Nii and M, Inoue, Personalization of control systems by policy update with improving user trust, 2023 American Control Conference, San Diego, CA, May-June, 2023 (LCSS option, link). 

  9. R. Naga and M. Inoue, Structural modeling and intervention of gene regulatory networks for ultra-early disease prevention, SICE International Symposium on Control Systems 2023, Shiga, Japan, March, 2023.

  10. M. Takeda, M. Inoue, X. Fang, Y. Minami, and J. M. Maestre, Light guidance control of human: Driver modeling, control system design, and VR experiment, 4th IFAC  CPHS, Houston, TX, December, 2022 (link). 

  11. M. Sugai, M. Inoue, and H. Nakamura, Human-in-the-loop approach to agri-environment control in small-scale greenhouses, European Control Conference (ECC) 2021, Online, 2021

  12. H. Matsushita, K. Sato, M. Sakura, K. Sawada, S. Shin, M. Inoue, Rear-wheel steering control reflecting driver personality via human-in-the-loop system, IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC), 2020 (link)

  13. K. Sato, K. Sawada, M. Inoue, On the instant iterative learning MPC for nonlinear systems, SICE Annual Conference, Online, September, 2020 (link)

  14. T. Homma, M. Inoue, J.-I. Imura, and K. Urata, Structured-learning of bi-layered controller with safety guarantee for large-scale social infrastructures, SICE Annual Conference, Online, September, 2020

  15. S. Wada, Y. Saito, and M. Inoue, Trajectory planning of arrival aircraft using mixed integer quadratic programing, SICE Annual Conference, Online, September, 2020

  16. K. Hara and M. Inoue, Data-driven modeling of human tendency, SICE Annual Conference, Online, September, 2020

  17. S. Shibasaki, M. Inoue, M. Arahata, and V. Gupta, Weak control approach to consumer-preferred energy management, IFAC World Congress, Berlin, Germany, July, 2020 (link, arXiv)

  18. K. Hara, M. Inoue, and N. Sebe, Learning Koopman operator under dissipativity constraints, IFAC World Congress, Berlin, Germany, July, 2020 (link, arXiv)

  19. M. Figura, L. Su, V. Gupta, and M. Inoue, Instant distributed model predictive control for constrained linear systems, American Control Conference 2020 (ACC), Denver, CO, USA, July, 2020 (link)

  20. K. Yoshida, M. Inoue, and T. Hatanaka, Instant MPC for linear systems and dissipativity-based stability analysis, 58th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), 2019 (LCSS option, link, arXiv)

  21. Y. Saito, S. Yoshimura, M. Inoue, M. Takahashi, Y. Sugihara, Optimal trajectory planning of aircraft for fair-sharing of noise, 10th IFAC Symposium on Intelligent Autonomous Vehicles, Gdansk, Poland, July, pp.271--276, 2019 (link)

  22. K. Yoshida, M. Inoue, and T. Hatanaka, Community energy management reflecting consumers' preferences: Preference-independent control system design, 2019 European Control Conference (ECC), Naples, Italy, June, pp.1902--1907, 2019 (link)

  23. M. Arahata, M. Inoue, T. Sadamoto, M. Suzumura, Simultaneous design of power flow and controller to enhance damping performance of power systems, 2019 European Control Conference (ECC), Naples, Italy, June, pp.1884--1889, 2019 (link)

  24. M. Inoue, Persistence in control systems, 57th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), 2018 (LCSS option, link）

  25. M. Takeuchi, T. Kawaguchi, M. Inoue, M. Naruoka, S. Adachi, Identification of decentralized system with common parameters, 2018 IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications (CCTA), Copenhagen, Denmark, August, 2018 (link)

  26. R. Sasaki, T. Kawaguchi, K. Hattaha, M. Inoue, and S. Adachi, Observability analysis for simultaneous state and physical parameters estimation of rechargeable batteries, 2018 IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications (CCTA), Copenhagen, Denmark, August, 2018 (link)

  27. H. Sasahara, T. Ishizaki, M. Inoue, and J.-I. Imura, A characterization of all retrofit controllers, 2018 American Control Conference (ACC), Milwaukee, USA, June, 2018 (link)

  28. M. Inoue, T. Ishizaki, and M. Suzumura, Parametrization of all retrofit controllers toward open control-systems, 2018 European Control Conference (ECC), Limassol, Cyprus, June, pp. 715--720, 2018 (link)

  29. M. Inoue, M. Suzumura, and K. Urata, Inhibiting disturbance propagation in large-scale systems and Its application to power system control, 2018 European Control Conference (ECC), Limassol, Cyprus, June, pp.422--427, 2018 (link)

Awards for Inoue

• • SICE Best Paper Award (with T. Nii, September, 2024)

  • SICE Control Division Conference Award (with D. Toratani & S. Wada, March, 2022)

  • AJC, Outstanding Reviewer for 2019 (2020)

  • SICE Control Division Pioneer Award (March, 2020)

  • SICE Control Division Conference Award (with S. Yoshimura, March, 2020)

  • NF Foundation R&D Encouragement Award (October, 2019)

  • SICE Control Division Conference Application Award (with K. Matsui, March, 2019)

  • SICE Best Paper Award, Takeda-Award (with S. Adachi, Y. Abe, & A. Matsubayashi, September, 2018)

  • SICE Best Paper Award (with K. Urata, September, 2018)

  • IEEJ Industry Applications Society Best Paper Award (with E. Hashigami, M. Muraoka, K. Shimojo, & K. Morikawa, August, 2017)

  • Automatica, Outstanding Reviewer for 2014-2015 (February, 2016）

  • SICE Best Paper Award (with K. Aihara, J.-I. Imura, K. Kashima, & M. Suzuki, October, 2015)

  • ISCIE Best Paper Award (with K. Aihara, J.-I. Imura, K. Kashima, & T. Arai, May, 2014)

  • ISIMM Best Poster Award Gold Prize (with T. Arai, K. Aihara, J.-I. Imura, & K. Kashima, November, 2013)

  • SICE Best Paper Award (with M. Ikeda & T. Wada, September, 2013)

  • SICE Conference Young Author Award (February, 2013)

  • The 55th Japan Automatic Joint Conference, Presentation Award (December, 2012)

  • ISCIE Conference Young Author Award (March, 2012)

  • Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University, Dean's Award (with T. Asai & M. Ishikawa, March, 2012)

  • Osaka University Master Thesis Presentation, Presentation Award (March, 2009)

  • SICE Kansai Chapter Young Researcher Conference 2009, Presentation Award (January, 2009)

  • Osaka University General Education Curriculum Scholarships, School of Engineering Representative (2006)

Awards for Students & Collaborators

• • JSAE Graduate School Research Award (T. Udagawa, March, 2024)

  • SICE Outstanding Student Award (R. Obata, March, 2024)

  • The 67th Japan Automatic Joint Conference, Presentation Award (R. Obata, 2024)

  • YANS, Sponsor Award by Spiral AI (Y. Miyaoka, 2024)

  • YANS, Outstanding Award at the Interdisciplinary Hackathon (Y. Miyaoka, 2024)

  • The 61st JSASS Conference, Presentation Award (Y. Miyaoka, 2023)

  • JSAE Graduate School Research Award (M. Takeda, March, 2023)

  • ISCIE Conference Young Author Award (M. Takeda, May, 2023)

  • The 65th Japan Automatic Joint Conference, Presentation Award (T. Udagawa, 2022)

  • 2022 JSAE Annual Congress (Spring), Best Student Poster Award (M. Takeda, May, 2022)

  • The 66th ISCIE Conference, Student Presentation Award (R. Asanaka, March, 2022)

  • The 66th ISCIE Conference, Student Presentation Award (M. Takeda, May, 2022)

  • The 66th ISCIE Conference, Student Presentation Award (R. Naga, May, 2022)

  • JSAE Graduate School Research Award (T. Homma, March, 2022)

  • SICE Outstanding Student Award (T. Homma, March, 2022)

  • SICE Control Division Conference Award (S. Wada, March, 2022)

  • The 64th Japan Automatic Joint Conference, Presentation Award (R. Asanaka, 2021)

  • The 64th Japan Automatic Joint Conference, Presentation Award (M. Takeda, 2021)

  • JSAE Graduate School Research Award (K. Hara, March, 2021)

  • The 63rd Japan Automatic Joint Conference, Presentation Award (K. Hara, 2020)

  • The 63rd Japan Automatic Joint Conference, Presentation Award (M. Sugai, 2020)

  • JSAE Graduate School Research Award (K. Yoshida, March, 2020)

  • SICE Control Division Conference Award (S. Yoshimura, March, 2020)

  • JSASS Best Conference Presentation Award (Y. Saito, October, 2019)

  • SICE Control Division Conference Application Award (K. Matsui, March, 2019)

  • SICE Best Paper Award, Takeda-Award (Yuma ABE, September, 2018)

  • SICE Best Paper Award (Kengo URATA, September, 2018)

  • SICE Conference 2018, Young Author Award (Ken-ichi HATTAHA, March, 2018)

  • The 60th Japan Automatic Joint Conference, Presentation Award (Kengo URATA, January, 2018)

  • The 60th Japan Automatic Joint Conference, Presentation Award (Risako SASAKI, January, 2018)

  • SICE Annual Conference 2017, Young Author's Award, Winner (Kengo URATA, Tokyo Institute of Technology)

  • SICE Conference 2017, Young Author Award (Kengo URATA, March, 2017)

  • SICE Conference 2017, Young Author Award (Kotaro MORIKAWA, March, 2017)

  • The 59th Japan Automatic Joint Conference, Presentation Award (Ayaka MATSUBAYASHI, December, 2016)

  • The 60th ISCIE Conference, Student Presentation Award (Takahiro KAWAGUCHI, March, 2016)

  • The 58th Japan Automatic Joint Conference, Presentation Award (Yuma ABE, February, 2016)

  • ISIMM Best Poster Award Gold Prize (Takayuki ARAI, Tokyo Institute of Technology)